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 pilgrims l^ogteC0, 
 
 FROM 
 
 QUAKERISM, 
 
 CHRISTIANITY. 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 A tardier Difcovery of the Danger of the Growth of 
 Qjeakerijht, not only in Point of Doctrine, but alio in their 
 Politicks, in what they call their Church Government, both 
 from Matter of Facl, Practice and Experience ; from the 
 Connection of the life and Defign of their filent Meetings, 
 their Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meetings, &c. their 
 Fund or Common Stock • with the Confequence of it. Toge- 
 ther with a Remedy propofed for the 
 
 Cure of Quakenfm. 
 
 To which is added an 
 
 APPENDIX: 
 
 SHEWING, 
 Wherein there is a molt Damnable Plot Contrived and 
 Carrying on by N&W-ROME, and that by a United 
 Confederacy againft the Reformed Religion, and the Profef- 
 fors thereof^ both Magistrates, Minifters and People. With 
 a Challenge to Geo. J"! Intebead, (HER CHIEF CARDINAL) 
 to prove the lame. 
 
 By FRAN Cl S BVGG, SenT 
 
 Oh that my H r ords vcer'e §ovo written ! Ob that they were printed 
 in a Book ! (For) thefe Men, the Sons oj Zerviah, be tbobiird 
 for me, Job ip. 23. 2 Sam. 3. 32. 
 
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 To the Right Worfhipful, the Vice-Chancellors, 
 and Heads oi the Colleges of both Univer/ities, 
 and to all other, the Reverend Clergy there- 
 in, of what Title foever ; the Enfuing Dif- 
 courfe is Humbly Dedicated, &c. 
 
 Honoured and Reverend Gentlemen, 
 
 HAving herein collected my Experience, both of the Doctrine 
 and Difcipline of the Schifm of Quaker ifm, fheroing the 
 Tendency thereof from Matter ofFaSt, I thought it but my Rea- 
 fonable Service to offer the fame to your Judicious Perufal, and 
 Chrijiian Conftdcr ation ^ that fo, according to the Apprehenjion 
 yon pall have, touching the Premifes, you may put your helping 
 Hand, not only to a farther Confutation of the Quaker Argu- 
 ments, (which yet is needful enough) but alfo for the regaining 
 fitch as Civ ho thro* the cunning Slights and Plaufable Pretentions 
 ofthefe Seducers ) are m/Jlcad, and carry d away ; and thereby 
 not only vindicate the Chriftian Religion, but defend the Church 
 of England from themofl horrible Scandals, cafl upon both, by 
 the Quakers. 
 
 I need not acquaint you with the great Labour, and unwearied 
 Pains, our Protejiant Divines have ta'gn to Regain fitch, whj 
 have been feduced to Adhere to the Romifh Religion, atid the 
 njafl number of Volumes, writ on that Account, and not without 
 Good and Great Succefs, as we fee this Day, Thanks be to God } 
 but behold, here is a NEW ROME ariftng, which Builds on 
 the fame Bottom, i. e. INFALLIBILITY, &C. and whofc Prin- 
 ciples werefirjl Hammer d at that Forge.and Coynd at that Mint, 
 a :d are carrying on by the fame Craft: and TJnfufpe&ed Policy, 
 and as Dangerous to the Reformed Religion, which our Alartyr'd 
 Ancejlors fuffered in the Flames for, as Rome tier Elder Sifter. 
 C And this you fiould fee, had they but Power 5 an Injiance of 
 nLich is their Proceedings in PenfilvaniaJ But notwithjianding 
 all this, how few are there concern d her eat ? How few I. ty it to 
 Heart? This is Caufe of Lamentation and Ajlonifliment ^ and 
 yet, when I confder how long I my felf w.is deceived, by them, I 
 
 A 2 do 
 
The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
 
 do the lefs mdweli, cfpecially, confidering what Equivocations 
 tin. I Rcferve they make in their Arguments, whether Verbal, or 
 in Writing :, how Indufirious they are to hide themfelves, and 
 their Tenets, exprejfing then/J "elves in Dubious Terms, that want 
 Explication:, pretending to Serioufnefs, Sincerity, Plainnefs, &C. < 
 
 when none fo Infincerc, fo Deceit fid, and Falfe in the World, as 
 in u Tlxiufand Things 1 could mention, whereby it is manifejl, 
 that they are the falfe Prophets winch Chrifi foretold of, Match. 
 24. 24. And therefore, if what lean contribute towards the. Dif- 
 covery of this Painted, as well as Difguifed Harlot, may beufe- 
 fitl to the Church of God, and the Minijlers thereof, in bringing 
 forth my known Experience, If mil be glad, and rejoyce therein. 
 
 I cannot but l{fmv, that herein you will meet with many Defici- 
 encies, for want of Parts and Learning, rcquifite tofuch a Worl^: 
 But fince your Generofity is fo mixed with Chriftian Charity, as 
 to accept the Will for the Deed, as in my former Ejfays, I have 
 at this time prefumed toprefent this Rough Draught to your Pe- 
 rufal, and as my Mite, to ca.fi it into your Treafury, hoping, that 
 until the Quakers canjufily charge me with a falfe Quotation, 
 (which, as they never yet could do, Jo I hope they never /half) this 
 may pafs under your Patronage, as a Defence again/} the Quaker'/ 
 InveUives :, and it may be, when I cannot fpeah^for my felfj 
 cfpecially, when there is not a Man of you, but are Sharers with 
 me in the fame Reproaches for the Gofpel's fake. Thus, Reve- 
 rend Sirs, begging your Pardon for this my Prefumption, I 
 Humbly Subfcribe ntyfelf, 
 
 Miiden-Haii, ^guft Y our moft Humble, 
 
 the loch. 1698. 
 
 And Devoted Servant, 
 Francis Bugg* Sen. 
 
 AN 
 
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 ADDRESS 
 
 T O 
 Private Gentlemen and Tradefmen, &c. 
 
 Courteous Readers, 
 
 IT is certain, That the Wicked P/ottcth again]} the Righteous*, "Pfal. 37- 12. 
 as David fold. This was and is the Churches Maladv; and 
 'tis as certain, that the Lord Laughs at thefe Plotters, Ver. 13. 
 This is the Churches Remedy. Now whilft God Laughs at the 
 Plots of the Wicked, his People have little caufe to Cry ; efpecially 
 considering that he would have us rejoice with him, faying, Tfe+M&J**'* 
 Righteousjliall fee and fear, and laugh at him f. But do you think 
 that we of the Laity ought to fee this Plot carrying on by a united 
 Confederacy againft. the Church, and fay nothing, nor be at all con- 
 cerned in the dilcovery of it ; for faith David, They have confuitedWN&M'i. 
 together with one confent; they are confederate againft thee (a). 
 Do you think, that becaufe God has promis'd, that Kings fhall be as * Ifa. 49. sj> 
 Nurfing-fathers to the Church* ; or becaufe he has Commanded his 
 Servants that wait at the Altar.to cry aloud,to give notice of thefe Se- 
 ducers, that therefore we are wholly excufed and unconcerned, I tell 
 yon nay-, Chrift's Myftical Body confifts of many Members,but all the 
 Members have not the fame Office ; yet the Eye cannot fay to the 
 Foot, I have no need of thee ; fo that there isfbme ufe and fervice 
 for us, if we be Living Members, and fenfible of the Churches Cala- 
 mity ; and if fo, give me leave to remind you of what I conceive to * The Snah . 
 be every private Chriftians Duty, which is, to ufe all Lawful Means the Grafs, ice, 
 to difcover this Plot; to put Books into the Hands both of the ^jea-Sathan D>f- 
 kers, in order to tegain them ; and to others who lean that way ; roh \ d '. &c> . 
 for it's probable fome of you in your Shops, and by Commerce, may ^fo*&£ 
 have that Opportunity your Minifter have not; there are many fuchJDifcourfe of 
 ufeful Books now extant *■ by this means the Quakers in time will W*te*R»t- 
 be capable to judge, how they have been impos'd upon, by their "{'"' ^ c . 
 Leaders, by comparing the Books : And herein will the Burden and ^/wow 
 Weight of this Difcovery be taken fomewhat off the Clergy ; who, g. K.'&c, 
 
 to 
 
 e in 
 
An Addrefs, &c. 
 
 to ftudy the Point, and difperfe all Books at their own Charge, is 
 too heavy : And if we be concerned in the Difhonour which this He- 
 refie brings upon our Holy Religion ; if we be concerned at the Blaf- 
 phemiesand Indignities caft upon our Saviour, his Death and Suf- 
 ferings, we Ihall not think our i'elves wholly unconcerned, in the 
 Vindication necelTary. If you tell me, That it is my Duty to do 
 what lean, to make amends for the Damage I did to the Church 
 when I was a Quaker, and thereby an Enemy to the Church ; I 
 grant what you lay •, and I have, and yet fhall do, what lieth in 
 my power : But in regard I did it in jny Miftaken Zeal, I hope my 
 Ignorance thereof may extenuate my Oftence ; and thereupon I pur- 
 pole to Bind up lome of my former Books with this, as alfo iome 
 And 'jefery wrote by Geo. Keith, Tbo. Cnjp, 6 T V. But if you find any PafTage 
 BuUock tho' i n our ear iy Writings, not confiftent with what we now let forth, 
 L- ri yet hlf we K- etra ft the fame : And this being wrote all with my own Hand, 
 Printing the ( Quotations excepted ) is to be taken as myprefent Judgment, not 
 66 Judges and only in Points of Doctrine Controverted, but alfo refpe&ing the De- 
 <5 7 Oppofers, f lgn f fa Q. (l ,k ers Politicks, in what they call their Church Go- 
 Infaifibiiity vernment 5 y et in a ^ the Books Bound up with this, ibmething of 
 oppofe Infal- the Defign of Sliukcrifm may be leen ; at leaft, fome of their Errors 
 libiiity. difcovered. And when we confider themany Books wrote againft 
 As is appa- t j ie p a pift S) ark i fa good Effe£t they have had, it may lead us to 
 ""'to", 1 *' confider the Uiefulnefs of Books againft this NEW ROME, who 
 herein. follow the Steps of her Elder Sifter : And the more we come to con- 
 
 ihid.p. 57, to fult the Holy Scriptures, and to confider of that Benefit we ( if obe- 
 9 °- dient to thole Evangelical Doctrines, and Holy Precepts laid down 
 
 therein) (ha 11 enjoy, this;, ye;?, this, will put us upon a Neceility 
 to be concerned in our ieveral Places, Stations, and Callings. 
 
 I remember that one Chief Method by which & taki -rij m Advan- 
 Ad '— a d H W( i, was by fpreading Books*, and the fame they ftill ufe; fee 
 the^oodsof P- Wt 7°? herein" For before their Government was fet up, their 
 a Poor Wi- Books were carried on Pack-horfcs up and down the Nation • I my 
 dow a Quaker, fdf have given away 20 s. worth at a Meeting-, and all this to 
 whofi Sub- fp rea( j e^ , .. And ihall we be lels Zealous in detecting Errors, 
 
 no"" o '/"yet than th ev are t0 iptead them ? Oh ! let it not once be laid lb of fuch 
 fhehad more as love God, and his Church, and Wotihip. Thus have I impar- 
 than 200 Qua- t ed my Mind, and I hope, without Oftence ^ who am, 
 
 k;r Books and 
 
 Pilnlphkcs - lour Humble Servant, 
 
 Francis Bugg. 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 CHap. I. An Account of the Author s 'Education. Pag. I 
 Chap. II. And his Falling from the Church to Quakerifm.3 
 
 Chap. III. Of the Quakers Silent Meetings. 4 
 
 A Comparison between the Quakers and Muggleton. 9 
 
 Chap. IV. Their Church Government Erected, and how. IB 
 The Convocation, Anno 1 666. 15 
 
 George Fox'/ Ten Commandments. 1 7 
 
 Chap. V. Fox the Quakers Mofes, 20 
 
 George Fox his Exaltations. 21,29 
 
 The Quakers Adorations to him. 2 3 
 
 Dijirujl the Quakers in all they fay :, and why. 2 5 
 
 Chap. VI. The Quakers Myfterium Maximum. 30 
 
 Chap. VII. The Quakers Yearly Convocation 5 and how. 2 7 
 W. Rogers Condemned ^ and why. 4 1 
 
 Chap. 8. The Executive Part of the Quakers Government. 49 
 Their Planner of Excommunication :, and for what. 5 1 
 
 Chap. IX. Their Fund, or Common Stocky 58 
 
 Ann DocwraV hie to the Government. 5 9 
 
 Her Verfes on G. Fox^ 64 
 
 Chap. X. Their Six WeekJMeeting for Suffering. 65 
 
 Tho. Ellwood, Tom. Tell-troth. 60 
 
 7000 Quakers Petition the Parliament againji Tythes. 68 
 Their not Signing the Affociation :, and why. 93 to <)^ 
 
 Their Care toffread their Books. 70 
 
 The Quakers Never Addreffed King William lit 86 
 
 A Alinifiers Letter to the Clergy. 71 
 
 Chap. XI. Their Second Day Meeting, where Satan dwells. 72 
 Their Averfenefs to Monarchy, and Affinity with O, Crom. 78 
 Their Supprejjing Joan WhitrovvV Books. 88 
 
 A Proclamation againji Mr. Penn. 89 
 
 Chap. XII. Their Battle-door for the Clergy. 1 04 
 
 Their Epijile or Liturgy for Churches } and why. JO 5 
 
 Chap. XIII. A Sermon for G. W. fuiting their Principles. 107 
 Londoners look, about ye. 112 
 
The CONTENTS. 
 
 Their Contempt of the Scriptures. I ca 
 
 'They pretend to own them to the Parliament , and why. \\\ 
 
 The Authority of their own Books } and how. 112 
 
 ConfejJioH of Sin denied 5 and why. I I 5 
 
 Their Self-Exaltation ; and how. 1 1 6 
 
 Their Tejlimony againjl the Clergy. 120 
 
 G. W 's Prayer Pharifee-/r% 126 
 
 Sam. FifherV Prophejie. 1 2 2 
 
 Baptifm, Supper, Ten Commandments, &C. denied. 118 
 
 Chap. XIV. A Cage of Unclean Birds. 12 7 
 
 Geo. Fox an Impoftor. 1 ^ ! 
 
 Tetters to F. B. in Verfe and Profc. \ 46 
 
 The Quakers Idolizing Geo. Fox. 1 5 3 
 
 Geo. Smith f£«r Favourite. 143 
 
 iVfji I<W B//7.w/> ^/Norwich his Certificate. 1 49 
 
 Mr. MeritonV Letter. 152 
 
 F. B' s Six Queries, wrote 1678. 15^ 
 Chap. XVI. The Quakers dirc&ed to Chrijlianity. 156 
 
 G . W J" C halleng e Anjwercd. 150 
 ^» Appendix ; G. WV Proprjition Explained. 1 64 
 Mr. Samuel Grove, &c. their Snbfcription. 164 
 F. Bugg' s Challenge to G. W. Renewed. 172 
 TAe Church of God both Jewifh and C\\X\{\..Exem.and how. 162 
 Four Warnings from the Quakers of an Horrible Plot. 167 
 Againjl whom this Damnable Confpiracy k. 1 6 3 
 The only way to difcover this Plot, and prevent it. 175 
 Not by Perfccution :, no j far eafier, and morefafe. 16 a 
 Geo. Whitehead'/ Innocency not Triumphant 3 and why. 172 
 F. B. renews his Challenge, pitches his Standard, and holds 
 
 out the Flag of Defiance aga/nji Geo. Whitehead. 175 
 
 The only way to Cure Quakeriim, both eafie andfafe. 171 
 
 Is to Summons F. Bugg and G. Whitehead 5 and why. 1 70 
 
 They undervalue the Blood ofChriji :, and how. 2 6 
 
 They undervalue the Death and Sujfer/ngs ofChrifl. 1 6 3 
 And that the Namejefu? and Chriji belong to every Believer, 
 
 (i. e. Quaker) at well as to Chri/i the He.iJ. 27, 175 
 
 William Perm'/ Error Confuted, {$n 
 
 The Fear of the Quakers Gulph Remov'd. 156 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 flilgrims fl?ogref 0, 
 
 FROM 
 
 QUAKERIS M 
 
 T O 
 
 Chriftianity, &c. 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 Giving an Account of mj Education in the Profejjion of the 
 Chriflian Faith } and how I came to Apoflatfce from it, and 
 fall in rrith the Schifm of Quakeritm. 
 
 I Was Born at Mitten-Hall, in the County of Suffolk, on the 
 iothDayofyl'L//r£,ii/?/TO 1540. andBapttzedir.ro the Church 
 of Chrift, the 14th ofthejame Month •, promifing then by my 
 Sureties.to Fight manfully under Chrift s Banner. My Father's 
 Name was Robert Bj:g.\cconA Son off "ranch Bu his 
 
 Wife,) who was Chief Conftable many Years ; my Mother's" Name 
 wa^ Joan, the Fourth and Youngeft Daughter of 1 Holman , 
 
 m<&Mary his Wife, (who was Baptized the 16th Day of March, 
 i^ip.) living at J ihenheath-Halh. My Parents were of good Yeo- 
 men-Family, and liv'd in good Repute, and brought me up in the 
 Profeflion of the Church of England; and when I came to Years ca- 
 pable of Inftruftion, they Taught me the Lords Prayer^ the Ten 
 ti, and the Apofiles Grcd; and very fevcre they were, 
 in Teaching me the Rudiments of the Chriftian Religion. I remem- 
 
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The Tilgr'irris Progrefs, 
 
 ber my Mother, who was a very good and pious Woman, and religi- 
 oufly inclined, would not iufter me to Sleep, when I went to Bed, 
 ere I had laid my Prayers, and fometimes, part of my Catechiim : 
 And on the Lord's Day, fhe made me to frequent the Church, and at 
 Home on that Day, as well as moft other Days, to read fome Por- 
 tion of the Holy Scriptures ; They brought me up to School-Learn- 
 ing, until I attained to the Age of about Fifteen Years, whereby I 
 was capable to Write, and Read V*pglijl> very well \ as alio to caft 
 Account, few Lads went beyond ml : As alio the Grammar, where- 
 in I was well Inftrucled in the Rules thereof, infbmuchthatl began 
 to make a Piece of Latin \ but my Father living in a great Farm at 
 U/td/ey-Ha/I, intheParifhofL<?^w/;w//^,of2oo/. a Year-, befides a 
 Fen-barm in his hands of ico /. per Ann. more \ he had, in the Sum- 
 mer time, great occafion for my Affiftance, and thereby was prevent - 
 ed,of attaining to that Degree they once defigned : And afterwards 
 being an Apprentice, and lb fell intoBuiinefs, that I foon loft a great 
 part of that Learning, I once had attained. 
 
 I muft alfb confefs, I was in my Youth inclined to Company, espe- 
 cially to Dancing and Mufick ; yet, I had in my early Years, a love 
 to Religion; and delighted much in Reading the Holy Scriptures, 
 ibmetimes 8 or 10 Chapters together ; I alfb lov'd much to hear good 
 Preachers. I very well remember, that fometimes I went to JKb'I- 
 den Hall, (where we formerly liv'd,) on the Lord's Day, on purpole 
 to hear Wix.Watfon, who was accounted a famous Preacher, being 
 four Miles from my Dwelling. Thus much briefly touching my 
 early Education. 
 
 Obfewations on the Firfl Chapter. 
 
 R 
 
 E,ader, lam the more particular in thefe Remarks, for that the 
 Quakers Chow much fbercr I was in efteem whilft with them] 
 fince I left them, have traduced me, and laid all the Reproaches on 
 me which Malice can invent, (a) as fhall be fhewed hereafter ; as 
 Caj Kmpati- well as to fhew, how excellent a thing it is, for Parents to bring up 
 T< f'/'' W o'" tne ' r Children in the Nurture and Fear of the Lord, to inftruft them 
 /££>/«./' m ~ in the Principles of Chriftianity ; reach them the Lord's Prayer, 
 A Man's Good the Ten Commandments, the Apojiles Creed, and the Church Cate- 
 Name , his chifm : Thefe Things, together with Reading and Hearing the 
 Sjl*' hi lE ye Scriptures Expounded, being inftiled into them,in their young Years, 
 daUyTwith, thev wi A fcarcely forget it when they are Old : But, if they fhould, 
 faid Luther in yet at one time or other, the remembrance of them may fo far be 
 his Commen- brought to mind, that they may thereby, be brought to a ienle of their 
 ary upon Gal. Condition. And I fpeak what I know by Experience ; for the firft 
 p * 5 ' Sermon I heard, after I was about 2 5 Years amongft the Quakers, 
 
 the very hearing the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, the Apo- 
 jiles 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifUanity. 
 
 files Creed, and Confcjfion of Sin, did fb ftrike me, and bring things 
 to my Memory, that it ihak'd all my Self-Confidence, and brought 
 
 me to the conhderation ofTimes paft. 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 j4« Account of my Apoflacy i, and how I came to be carried away 
 by the Quakers Dijfimulation. 
 
 ABOUT the Year of our Lord 1657, Thomas Symonds of. 
 Norwich came to Laken-heath, and appointed Meetings •, 
 and many fakers came from The/ford, and other Places : 
 And. tho' I went to Church on the Forenoon, yet I had itching Ears 
 to hear the Quakers % and my Mother being dead, and much of my 
 Reftraint thereby taken oft, I went to their Meetings in the After- 
 noon, and gave great heed to what was fpoken ; whole chief Sub- 
 ject was, The Light within every Man, and this Light to beChrift : 
 And their great Argument was from Chrift's telling the Woman of 
 Sam-aria her Thoughts, faying, Come, fee a Man which told me all ~ . 
 things that ever I did., is not this the Chriji .<? &c. Therefore, laid * om ^' 29> 
 the Quakers, this Light vcithin mult needs be the Man Chrift, and 
 no other Man Chrift, do they now own to this Day, if they would 
 ipeak their Thoughts : However, their Writings prove it 5 and till 
 they condemn them,all they alledge to the contrary, is nothing worth. 
 
 Well, however, I and others, were catched by thefe and the 
 like fallacious Arguments, not being well grounded in the Principles 
 of the Chriftian Religion, nor underftanding the Wiles of Satan; 
 and by their ftnooth and fair Carriage, by their furrering patiently 
 the Affronts they then met with. I cannot but (till remember, how 
 our Minifter warned us of the Dottrineof the Quakers, and told 
 us, they were Deceivers and Antichrifts ; even thole very Deceivers 
 which Chrift foretold us ihould arife, (hewing Signs and Wonders: 1/^4.24.24. 
 infomuch, that if it were poffible, they Ihould deceive the veiy E4ecL 
 (b) But by this their pretended Patience in Suffering, by their ib rb w] . . 
 much infilling on the Dilates of~our Conferences, which prompts now alfo be- 
 to good, and checks for fome Evils ; with other fair Words, and lieve. 
 feeming, nay, real Truths, with which they covered over their 
 poyfbnous Pills of Schiffn and Herefie, many of us were deceived. 
 
 Again, when I faw fo much Piainnefs and feeming Sincerity in the 
 Quakers, and conlider'd, how our Minifter lived, it was another Mo- 
 tive to induce me to go after the Quakers •, for Mr.Savw/o/?, our Mi- 
 nifter, lived with my Father, I do think fome Years •. my Father was 
 the chief Man that got him into the Place: But, both then, 
 
 B 2 and 
 
The Pilgrim's Progrejl, 
 
 and afterwards, he was fuch an ill Example, and I not being capable 
 toiudge ot'the Doctrinal Fart, I was carried away in my Artettions -, 
 being more apt to be led by Example than Precept, which is not al- 
 ways fife: However, I do believe it was the fcandalous Practice 
 of our Minifter, which I beheld in divers Particulars, which was 
 one caufe of my Stumbling,whereby I fell unhappily into that Schilm. 
 
 Obfewations on the Second Chapter. 
 
 NOW therefore, I inrreat all concerned in the Ministerial Office, 
 as Fathers, That they beware they give no ill Example to their 
 Flock, contrary to what becomes their Sacred Function •, but, when 
 they Preach well, let them Practice lb, as believing what they fay, 
 fo will their Po p'.e believe them to be in earneft. But, if they Preach 
 never fo Orthodoxly, and tho' their Sermons be never fo much Learn- 
 ed, yet if they do not live in fome tollerable fort anfwerably, their 
 People will Queftion, Whether they believe what they teach ; and 
 as a confequence thereof j will take that liberty in Living, which is 
 not becoming Chriftians : Or elfe, if Seducers come, will be apt 
 to feperate themfelves,in hopes to get under a purer Miniftry ; which, 
 when they come afterwards to examine, they may find it to be only 
 in Shew. 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 Gives an Account of the Quakers Silent Meetings , and the 
 Tendency of them : In which, I ftall fpeak fometimes in the 
 Perfon of a Quaker, reflecting the time I was one. 
 
 HAVING by this time fallen in with the Quakers ; in a few 
 V ears, I became very zealous that way, and to filent Meet- 
 ings I went ; and fometimes we had a few Words fpoken, 
 fometimes none •, fometimes an Epiftle of George Whiteheads, George 
 Fox's, Sam. Caters, or fome others, read in our Meetings ; and fome- 
 times none : But the chief of what we did hear, either from our 
 infpired Infallible Teachers, or from our Friends Epiftles, in thole 
 private Silent Meetings, was, To exhort us to wait in the Light, out 
 of our Selves, out of our Thoughts, out of our Willingsand Run- 
 nings, in that which is invifible •, and then we fhould receive the 
 hidden Manna, yea, Manna from Heaven, which the World knew 
 not of; and that we fhould feel Chrift to come the fecond time to 
 Judgment ■, and that Judgment was to begin at the Houfe of God, 
 
 which 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 5 
 
 which Houfe was our Bodies : And from hence, divers of us fell 
 oft inro a Trembling and Shaking. I have ieen about five or fix to- 
 gether in a Meeting, fhake like a Leaf in Winter, namely, Matthew 
 Beefly, Jonatt Skrook^ Tl r illiam fyfon, and others ^ yea, they have 
 Ihaken the Forms they fat on •, and this, not once, nor twice, but fre- 
 "quently. I do very well remember, that John Kilborn the Elder,did 
 one Sunday in our Meeting, fold his Arms, and flood upright ; and 
 by an.! by, leaped and jumped, about 1 8 Inches at a time, until he 
 jumped round the Room. I know, that fome are alive ftill, that know . 
 thefe things are true. But, let it be noted, Not a Chapter in the 
 Bible was ever read amongft us, but all exhorted to adhere to the 
 Light within-, to obey the Light tat bin, and to follow the Teachings 
 .•of as a Guide fufficient to lead us to Salvation ; yea, above 
 Sciipture, above Fathers, above Councils, and above Church* : f,.u Hj»gtU\ 
 This I now confers, was a Paradox ; not Orthodox, but abfolutely works. 
 Heterodox : For let the Scripture command Subjects to be obedient P ,fo2> co <?2 7- 
 to Magiftrates, Children to obey their Parents, Wives to reverence 
 their Husbands, and live in fubjeftion to them, Servants to obey 
 their Matters, Chriftiansto obey their Paftors,all this fignified lit- 
 tle j the Light within (ourTeachers taught us,)was Chrift,and Chrift Perverting 
 the Power of God, the higher Power to which every Soul was to be 7?l', n s * 2 3> 2 4* 
 fubjecf ; yea, all Power in Heaven and in Earth, was committed to Stc'j^uh' 
 the Light •, (a) and that no Command in Scripture was any further coaTs Works, 
 binding, than as we were convinced of the Lawfulneis thereof byP- 9i- 
 the Light within us. (b) So, that all our Obedience to God, and C^J Ed.Bur- 
 his Commands, were bottomed and founded on our Conviction, by ro " dh s Works > 
 the Light icithin 5 that being the only Rule, Judge and Guide, both fbjQHakmfm 
 fuperior to the Scriptures, Fathers and Councils. For, faid they a New Nick- 
 to us, That ichat is fpoken from the Spirit of 'Truth (c) in any, name for Old 
 is of at great Authority an the Scriptures and Chapters are^ and^}^™^'- 
 greater. p ^,/ em ' 
 
 By which, it is felf-evident, That theft Silent Meetings were CO Truth 
 defigned to wean us off from fo much as the remembrance of all ex- Defending the 
 ternal Religion, and alio, to prepare us to receive the falfe Notions °v uakers > &• 
 of Qiiakerifm ■, for, had they indeed exhorted us, to have regard to *** 
 our Light icitbin, and the Dictates of our Confciences, which 
 prompts to good, and checks for many Evils ■, in obedience to the 
 Commands of Holy Scripture, this would have been fafe, for I be- 
 lieve we ought fo to do, and 'tis the fame the Minifters of the 
 Church of England prefs and exhort us to. Oh ! but this would 
 not do our Teachers Bufineis ; they muft bring us off from the Scri- 
 pture Commands, as inferior to their Sayings and Speakings ^ for 
 the Book laft quoted, is faid, to be given forth from the Spirit of See Ticle Pa §- 
 Truth, in George Whitehead^ and George Fox the Younger : And 
 being Queftioned by a Minifter, p. 7. Whether the Quakers Speak- 
 ing 
 
i9. 
 
 The Pilgrims Progrejl, 
 
 ing was of as great Authority as any Chapter in the Bible ? George 
 Whitehead reply'd, laying, That tchich is fpokcn from the Spirit of 
 Truth in ANY, is of a* GREAT AUTHORITY at the Scriptures 
 and Chapters *■//<•, and GREATER. So that, the plain coniequence 
 ofthisDoftrine, is, That the Authority of" this little Pamphlet of 
 Whitehead's and Fox's Writing, is of Greater Authority than the 
 Bible \ and not only that, but all their other Pamphlets which they 
 give forth (as they pretend,) from the Spirit of Truth, or Light with- 
 in. The laid Minifter propofed another Queftion xoWhiteheadcviz. Is 
 the Moral Law, or Ten Commandments ,« Rule to the Chrijliaris Life, 
 or is it not ? To this G. Whitehead 'reply'd, faying, Thou might at 
 ■wellaiky If the Moral Law be a Rule to Chrijt^ for the Chrijhans 
 Lijiand Rule is Chrift'-, meaning, their Light within : From 
 wftence it's plain, that the Ten Commandments are not the Quakers 
 Rule : No, no, not unlefs they be convinced by their Light within, 
 Quikcriim a of the reaibnablenels of their Obedience, as Mr. Perm teaches, 
 New Nick- and Edward Burroughs, thejr great Prophet. And by theie, and the 
 Name, 6-'-. like Arguments, our Teachers brought us oft, from believing the 
 toilouib's Scriptures to be theWord of God : And as fuch,to have Authority over 
 Works, p. 47. us, and Binding to us, whether convinced or not convinced ; by 
 theie means, they brought us from the Practice of repeating the 
 Lord's Brayerjhe Ten Com?nand?nents^\\d the Apoftles Crecd^ in our 
 Families : By thefe cunning Slights,they by degrees brought us oft" the 
 Ordinances of Chrift, zsBaptifm and me Lord's Supper, asking For- 
 givenefs of Sin, and the like Chriftian Duties, in which many of us 
 had been Educated, and which the Scriptures command and exhort 
 to. And by reafon of this, and the like Doctrine, together with not 
 reading the Holy Scriptures in our Meetings, but their Epiftles only, 
 as in my former Books I have at large (hewed ; we came to forger, 
 and not regard, nor have Faith in the Crucified Jefus, who died for 
 our Sins,and role for ourjuftification ; and that in thefe Fundamental 
 Points following, namely, 
 
 1. That Faith in Chrift, as he outwardly fuffered at Jefufalem, 
 was neccflary to our Salvation, provided we hearkened diligently 
 to our Light within. 
 
 2. That Juftification and San&ification, is by' the Blood of Chrift 
 outwardly ihed. 
 
 3. That there fhall be a Refurre&ion of the Body that dieth. 
 
 4. That Chrift lhall come without us in his Glorified Body, to 
 Judge the Quick and the Dead at the laft Day ; even the lame Jelus 
 th it was born of the Virgin, died, role, afeended, and now firs 
 ac the Right Hand of God in Hea\ en, making InterceOion for us •, I 
 
 News out of lay, by our Teachers thus flighting the Scriptures, as Death', Duft, 
 
 Nonft, p.14. and Serpents Food, ofwhichl have largely treated elfewhere-, and 
 
 by their other Doctrine flattered up and down their Books, they 
 
 brought 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 7 
 
 brought us off" from the Belief and Expe&ation of thefe Things, as 
 GeorgeKcitb by hisThird Narrative,has clearly made to appear; and 
 as a pregnant inftance thereof, with refpecf to my felt \ fee my hrft 
 Book I printed ■, which, altho' it Treat of the beft part oFQuaAerijfm, Dc cb-u. Lib. 
 and gave a mortal Wound to the Jurifdi&ion of their Female Go- Parc 2 - 
 vernment, yet it fet not forth any ens of thefe four Fundamental 
 Points: For, as their Hypocrify in pretending to be plain, iincere, 
 fimple and innocent, was a means to attract and draw me after 
 them-, io, the like Hypocrify in pretending to gather to the Light, 
 leave people to their Light>as a fufficientRule,Judge,andGuide,*t?V. * Yec acting 
 wa^ ion why I left them. I do not look upon it fo eminently quire contrary, 
 
 royBufineft, to fet forth the admirable Advantage and Ufe of the f™ u - 
 L- rd s P/-j)i r. the T< n Commandments^ the ApoJVes Creed, Baptifin, 
 and the Lords Supper ; no, every Booklellers Shop is furnilhed 
 with plenty of luch Books, which are writ by Men of great Learn- 
 ing and Skill ; which, ihould I write after them, it would be next 
 to light a Candle at Noon- day, when the Sun ihines in its Brightnefs. 
 Tho, it" Hived in a Country where fuch Arguments were not, I 
 thank God, I could, through the Study of the Scriptures, (and the 
 Knowledge I have of the Dottrinal part of Chriftianity thereby,) 
 ipeak fomewhat to the Point, and which might be ufeful too : No, 
 I take it to be my Bufinefs and Office, amongft others, to unmask 
 and difcover the Errours and pernicious Principles of the Quakers ■> 
 and therefore refer to Bilhop Ahdreios upon the Commandments, 
 Bifhop Pe arfon upon the Creed, Dr. Cumber upon the Lord's Prayer, 
 and indeed, what elfe the Church teach. 
 
 Aid to make it yet more evident, if more can be, that the very De- 
 fign of thefe Silent Meetings, was to bring us off, and wean us 
 from the Articles of the Chriftian Faith, and the Principles of the 
 Chriftian Religion 5 and thereby, to mould us, and fquare us, as fit 
 Tools for their turn, to fupplant and overthrow it. And this I know, 
 that the more we obeyed the Doctrine of our new Teachers, the more 
 we grew dead to all Inftituted Religion. 
 
 For, as Univerfities, and other Schools of Learning,as well amongft 
 the Jews as Christians, had a tendency to prepare Men, and (thro' 
 God's aififting Grace) were a means , and a help to fuch as 
 were to be Confecrated, and fet apart for the Work of the Miniftry ; 
 ib I do affirm, and that from an Experimental Knowledge, That 
 thefe Silent Unrverfities tends only to empty the mind of all true 
 and folid Notions of the Chriftian Religion, and only to prepare 
 them for the wild Notions of ^uakerifm^ which hath fuch a fandy 
 Foundation, that to this day they have not been able to produce their 
 Articles of that Faith they pretend to •, but are, as Mr. Baxter faid, 
 i. e. ' The Qitakers are amongft us, a dilgraced broken SecL &c. Penitential 
 notwithftanding their pretence to Unity, Uniformitv,and to be of one confeflion, 
 
 mind, p- 6 * 
 
g The Pilgrim's Progrefe, 
 
 mind, referring oft to their Beginning ; when, alas ! fome will pay 
 Tythes, fome not ; fome (hut up their Shops on Faft Days,fome not ; 
 fome for Thee and Thou ft ill, but moft of them not j but are like o- 
 theT People : fome wet Quaker s y fome not-, fome for this, fome for 
 that-, and ibmefor neither this nor that, as in a hundred things I 
 could (hew. 
 
 But, leaft any fhould think me partial in ftating the Cafe, and in 
 {hewing the Confequences of our Silent Meetings, or Schools of Ig- 
 norance, 1 (hall now proceed farther, to prove my Matter, and that 
 from plain matter of Fact -, that fo it may appear, as well from our 
 - printed Books,as from our known Practice, w hat a ftrange Efte£t thefe 
 Silent Meetings had upon us -, and, how we thereby, became not 
 only levened into a Temper, to throw off all Inftituted Religion, but 
 to a degree higher, even to throw contempt both upon the Scriptures, 
 Ordinances and Minifters, and all things Sacred, crying down all 
 Forms and Conftiturions, how ancient and profitable ibever they 
 were, and all under a pretence of a higher Difpenfation, even the 
 Light uvW.v'tf, &c. 
 C.ij The F° r faith H". Venn^(a) 'We [Quakers] being withdrawn from 
 Guide nufta- 'every Form and Conftitution, to wait pn Silence] for Life from 
 ken, p. 32. ' God, and not from beggarly Elements, and therefore made a Prey 
 ' to all Parties-, a gain ft whom every hand have been lifted up, and 
 ' forfakenby all Civil Power, iffc. 
 To this, let me add the Teftimony of one of our greateft Prophets ; 
 A Mufick- his Words are thefe, (i. c.) ' I dare not daub (faith Solomon) with 
 Lerturc, p. 25. ' untempered Mortar •, for where they (/'. e. Profeffors ofChriftianity) 
 ' are, I was, viz. in Performances in Ordinances, in Family Duties, 
 ' in Hearing, in Reading, in Prayers and Faftings, in my own Will 5 
 ' and all this is W ill vvorfhip. But when that one thing (the Light) 
 ' came, which was needful, I then began (waiting in Silence,) to 
 'learn tube a Fool, infomuch, that I durft net give God thanks for 
 ' the Victuals that were fet before me. 
 
 Thus it is plain, that our Teachers led us into this Silent way of 
 
 Eretended Worth ip, which never was known before fince the World 
 in. Indeed, Coniideration and Meditation are good, and ought 
 often to be the Exercile of Chriftiahs; but then, they have an 01 
 to Meditate upon -, either the Works of Crea Snce, 
 
 which aflprds much Comfort, and caufe to praife Gal cur great 
 Creator; orelfe, on our Lord Jcii's Chrii'c hi> Death, and Sufte: 
 and perfect Obedience, and the like. But, I fiy, to go on purpofe 
 to a Meeting, and there fit ftarving in the cold three or four hours 
 together, (be jvera word, nor as near as we c:\n s think a 
 
 Thought of < this isfucha new, and 1 . of Wor- 
 
 ship, as neither p- - Apoftles, nor any Chriftian Church 
 
 to this day, ever-gave G ce to, or Prcfident for; I grant. 
 
 That 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 9 
 
 That John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, who came forth with 
 
 George Fox, and their Books bear the like face,t;/'.s. l Tho' all vifible Joyful Nei« 
 
 w Worlhip is now become of no value in the Eyes of the Lord, yet it from Heaven, 
 
 ' may be truly laid, that Chrift is with his Apoftles always to the end P* 6u 
 
 ' of the World, in all thole that Worfhip him in Spirit and Truth ; 
 
 ' I mean, thole fbber Silent Saints, whofe Language and Practice 
 
 ' lpeaketh forth the Spirit and Power of the Scriptures in them -, 
 
 c thefe Silent Saints I fpeak of, pag. 72. from an unerring Spirit, -— 
 
 c from an infallible Light which I have received from the Divine 
 
 4 Majefty, &c. 
 
 Reader, I have by me Lodowick Muggleton s Journal, or Works, 
 bound up in one Volume, containing eleven diftinft Books in Quarto, 
 and above One thoufand pages ; and 10, like to George Fox's, that I 
 intend they fhallftand together in the Library ofCbriJi's-Church Col- 
 ledge in Oxford, with the Works of Burroughs, Bayly, Smith, and o- 
 thers, that lb any who are concerned with the Quakers Errors, may 
 befurnilhed, &c. 
 
 Thus Reader, you fee, that Muggleton and Fox ftand on the fame 
 bottom •, Fox was unerring, fo is Singleton; Fox was for an Infal- 
 lible Light, fb was Muggleton ; Fox was for Silent Saints, fb was 
 Muggleton, only Muggleton keeps clofe to his Principles ; for as 
 he denies all Ordinances, lb he does not Preach, Pray, nor 
 Baptize, nor Adminifter the Sacrament : But the Quakers , as 
 in the inftance of Solomon Eccles above quoted, pretend to be a- 
 gainft all Ordinances, and yet own Preaching and Praying, and deny 
 Baptifm and the Supper, &c. However, fince I have no Author, nor 
 never read of any but Lodowick Muggleton, that iuftifie the Quakers 
 Silent Meetings, I will produce one PalTage more, i. c. ' That the P- 4 1 - 4?- ***£ 
 •■ Worfhip required by him from his Saints, was an inward Stilnefs, 
 ' by which their Souls were made willing to hearken to the Voice-or 
 ' Motion of his moft Holy Spirit, fpeaking in them. — Thus from 
 ' an unerring Light, I have remonftrated to the Elect, what is the 
 c very true God, and his fpiritual Worfhip accepted of him; 'tis not 
 c outward Praying, Preaching Falling or Thankfgiving, to be feen of 
 c Men, but it is an Inward, Spiritual, Silent Praying and Praifing, 
 ' Fafting and Feafting, upon the glorious Things of Eternity, which 
 ' is only feen by Divine Eyes, &c. 
 
 Thus I have Ihewed, that Lodowick Muggleton was a better Qua- 
 ker of the two than Solomon : But, that it may appear, that as the 
 Quakers have teftified againft the Chriftians for owning the Autho- 
 rity of the Bible, fb let them fee they have a Partner, namely Mugle- 
 ton, who fays, c Again, in the next place, I ihall demonftrate the p. 4?. ibid, 
 c Vanity oftheMiniftry of the Baptifls ■, I need not tell you the Foun- 
 dation upon which they build their Worihip, becaufe it is founded 
 ' on the Letter (a) of the Scripture, and their own lying Reafon, h 
 ' which is the Devil in them -: All true Chriftians are now under the ^ Language 
 
 C ' Miniftry to a Tee. 
 
io The Pilgrim's Progrefs, 
 
 - Mmiftry of the Holy Spirit, and therefore are no more bound in 
 
 * Conitience to Apoftolick Uoiihip -, I fjy again, that above this 
 1 i ceo Years there hath not been a Man lent to Preach or Propriety, 
 
 • /'. 50. How then canft thou poflibly become a Minifter of Divine 
 1 Oidinances, by Authority from another Man s Words or Writings , 
 ' unlels without their Letter, thou wen immediately moved to fpeak 
 i by the Holy Spirit, as they were '* Moreover, tho' the Scriptures in 
 ' themfelves are true, yet there is nothing but Death in them to a 
 ' Carnal Spirit : The Letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth Life •, And 
 ' can a dead and killing Letter give the Power, to become a fpiritual 
 ' Minifter of Chrift's Ordinances to his Heft People ? I trow not, Vtc. 
 
 Thus doth I .odowick profefs the lame Infallibility of Judgment the 
 lame way of Silent Meetings ; the fame Perfection and unerring 
 Light to (auide, moved thereby immediately. Agajn,they join, like 
 Sam/ens Foxes, aga inft the Scripture, a dead Letter, a killing Letter, 
 a carnal Letter. I think I have faid enough at this time, of the Har- 
 mony betwixt hodovcick Muggleton, and the Quaker Teachers ; tho' 
 I could bring many the like Inftances. 
 
 V 
 
 Some Inferences from the Third Chapter. 
 
 "S itfo, that whereas it is written, John 5. 23, 27. For the Father 
 L judgeth no Man, but hath committed all Judgment to the Son, 
 and hath given him Authority to execute Judgment alfo, becaufe he is 
 the Son of Man ; Confirmed by the Apoftle, Atts 1 7. 3 1. Becaufe he 
 hath appointed a Day, in which he mill judge the World in Righte- 
 vitfnefs, by that Man whom he hath Ordained, whereof he hath given 
 .[\):<> ance unto all Men, in that he hath raifed him from the Dead. I 
 fay, Is it lo > And have the ^takers perverted thefe Texts in St. 
 Muhaxlh y°& a 3 *i n dputona new Tranflation, faying, All Power in Heaven 
 Works, p. v*'" 7 '! Earth is committed to their Light ? Quoting John 5. 23. This 
 5 is a bold Attempt •, this is moil Horrible, if not Blafphemy, thus to 
 liibvert the Gofpel, to ferve their Corrupt Ends. How wary then had 
 People need be of receiving the Quakers Doctrine ? Is it fo, that 
 People being thus caught in a Snare, and brought over to their Silent 
 Meetings, and thereby weaned and drawn off from the Principles and 
 Practices of the Chriftian Churches in all Ages, as Baptifm, the Lord's 
 Supper, the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, the Apoftles Creed, 
 Confefiion of Sin, and reading the Scriptures in their Meetings, in 
 the WorfhipoKiul ? Oh! what care ought to be taken,that thefe 
 People fhould be fhunned, and thefe falfe Worfhippers be rejected, 
 as a contagious Difeafe > Is it fo, that the Quakers hold, that what 
 is fpoken from the Spirit of Truth in any, is of greater Authority 
 
 than 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 1 1 
 
 than the Holy Scriptures, which was ever fince the Days of Chrifl 
 and his Apoftles, brought as a Proof^ to caft the Bal lance in all Con- 
 troverfies ? And do they indeed hold as their Books teach, That 
 that is no Command of God to me, what he commanded to another •, 
 and that no Command in the Scripture is any further obliging upon 
 any Man, than as he finds a Convi&ion upon his Conlcience, as IF. 
 Venn, and their Prophet Burroughs teach : This tiirely is the Womb Banw/Works 
 of all Iniquity in the World ; this opens the Flood-Gates to all Er- p- m- 
 rour, Atheiim, Deifm, Socinianifm, Arianifm, and what not. This^jM nw ~ 
 therefore ought to precaution all People, to beware how they receive ' c }~ njmi >' iU: - 
 the dangerous Pill of §£tiakerifm, how excellently Ibever it is co- 
 vered with fome plaulible Pretentions and fair Arguments. Is it fb, 
 that the Quakers have not, nor ever had, fince the Days of Symon 
 Magus, none like them amongft the Chriftian Churches, who deny- 
 ed the Ordinances of Baptifm, Supper, and Confeffion of Sin, but 
 John Reeve and Lodotack Muggleton ? How then does it behove their 
 Followers, to examine the Doctrine and Practice of their Teachers, 
 and to turn from them, and flee as for their Lives ? 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 Shews that this Anarchy did not lajl long, hut a Government teas 
 Jet up : Sometimes a Single Perjoti,as Pope over us } andfome- 
 i imes the Light in the Body of Friends, claimed a Power over 
 the Li'ht in the Particular. 
 
 o 
 
 FOR after we became dead to the Rudiments of the World, 
 as we accounted thofe Chriftian Duties, commanded by Chrift 
 and his Apoftles, and prattifed by Chriftian Churches down- 
 wards , as Baptifm, Supper, Confeffion of Sin 3 &c. and became 
 ftedfaft and fixed in the Notion of Quakerifm; of which I gave 
 only a Hint as I palled thro' my Pilgrimage in that Particular ; 
 then our Teachers began to bethink themfelves of the neceflity of 
 a Government in our Church, as well as our Neighbours ; and if a 
 Government, then a Governour •, and this Government muft be either 
 Inward, or Outward : The Inward we had tried,and found defective ; 
 for the Difciple pretended he was enlightned, as well as the Apoftle • 
 and he thought he had as much right to follow his Guide , i. e. 
 his Light within ; as to follow and obey the Light is his Teacher, or 
 the Light in any Man. 
 
 Upon this, the Teachers met in Council at London, in the Month 
 of May 1666, to fettle this fo neceffary, as well as difficult Pointy 
 and many Arguments palled between the Clergy and Laity, between 
 
 C 2 the 
 
H The Pilgrims Progreji 
 
 the Teachers and the Deputies At la ft it was decided, That the 
 Body ihould govern, and the Light in the particular fhould fubmit 
 to the Body. But ft ill this Body being without a Head,feemed like 
 a Monfter •, ib that there was a neceffity to find a Head to clap upon 
 this Body. Well, this Headmuft either be vifible, orinvifible; 
 the latter it could not be, for then the leaft Hearer would plead his 
 Light, his Guide, his Judge, his Leader 5 as the Teachers told them 
 in the beginning , when they decoyed them over to them. So then 
 it was refolved, it muft be George Fox, he being the firft , muft be- 
 come our Great Apoftle ; who , together with the Body, was to 
 Govern from Eaft to Weft, and from North to South. Since which 
 time , it was in vain for any fingle Perfon to plead the Sufficiency of 
 his Light, or the Authority of it , for to the Light in the Body was 
 
 w«te p m aU Power in Heaven and Earth committed, (a) 
 fbj a Britf And to fupport this Glorious Caufe, W.Venn (b) wrote a Book, 
 Examinac. and wherein he affirmed, 'That it is a dangerous Principie,and pernicious 
 State, p. 3. c t0 True Religion ; and which is worfe,ir is the Root of Ranter if m, 
 
 * to alTert, That nothing is a Duty incumbent upon thee, but what 
 ' thou art perfwaded , [or convinced] is thy Duty, iffc. This was 
 Printed in id8i, and written by the fame W. Penn,who in the Year 
 1673 wrote his Book ftiled , Quaker if m a New Kick-Name for Old 
 Cbrifianity •, where he then judged it 10 far from Ranter if m, to a£l 
 as they were perfwaded, that, Pag. 71. he faith, ' No Command 
 
 * in the SCRIPTURE, is any farther OBLIGING upon 
 
 * ANT Man, than as he finds a CONVICTION upon his 
 4 Confcience ; otherwife Men (fa id Mr. Penn ) fhould be engaged 
 { without, if not againft Conviction ^ a thing unreafbnable in a 
 ' Man, &c Thus then it's plain , That with refpett to the Com- 
 mands of God recorded in the Holy Scriptures , Men are to be at 
 liberty •, they are to obey, if they be convinced or perfwaded it's their 
 Duty fb to do •, if not, they may by Mr. Penn's Do£trine,be at liberty. 
 
 WorkTp. 47. And fo fakh Burrows ■ ' That ( fays he) is no Command from God 
 ' c to me, what he commands to another ; neither did any of the Saints 
 
 * that we read of in Scripture, aft by the Command which was to 
 c another, not having the Command to themfelves, &c. And if we 
 read on in the fame Page, we may find , that thefe Commands of 
 God, thus rejected by the Quakers , unlefs they have them a-new, as 
 the infpired Apoftles and Prophets had , were Baptiim , and other 
 
 „ Ordinances. 
 
 And now let me return to fee what things Will. Penn would have 
 done and obey'd , Convi&ion, or no Conviction ; and this will give 
 us fome Light into their Myflery of Iniquity •, thus to rejeft the 
 Commands of God, recorded in Scriptures , and teach that none 
 need to obey them, unlefs convinced of the ufefulnefs of them, as 
 they have done thefe 40 Years. GO TEACH ALL NATIONS, 
 
 BAPTI- 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 1 3 
 
 BAFTlZING&t. DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME, ifc. Mittb, 28. i 9 , 
 When you Prav, fay, FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES.,) ; 
 AS WE FORGIVE, &c. aSSftT 
 
 Well , I fay let us hear what the Commands of the ^takers are , See alfo, The 
 that whoever amongft them pleads for their Liberty, whether to obey, PMwre of Qu.i- 
 or not to obey, are Ranters, Rebels, and what not. See his Brief ^fy; f-f™ 
 Examination,^. Pag. 1 1. c Arid this I affirm,from the Underftanding p^. t i.pjvf '&,, 
 ' I have received of God, not only that the Enemy is at work to to 70. 
 ( fcatter the Minds of Friends by that loole Plea ; What haft thou 
 ' to do with me ? Leave me to my Freedom,and to the Grace of God 
 c in my felf, and the like. But this Propofition and Expreffion, as 
 ' now underftood and alledged, is a deviation from, and a perverfion 
 ' of the Ancient Principle of Truth. For this is the plain Conic- 
 ' quence of this Plea ; If any one fhall lay, I fee no Evil in Paying 
 4 Tythes to Hireling Priefts , in that they are not claimed by Di- 
 
 * vine Right, but by the Civil Laws of the Land. I lee no evil 
 
 * (faith another) in marrying by the Prieft, for he is but a Witnels. 
 'I fee no evil (faith a third) in declining a Publick Teftimony in 
 ' Suffering-Times, for I have Chrifis and P<w//'s Example. I lee no 
 ( evil (faith a fourth) in refpe&ing the Perlbns of Men 5 for what- 
 1 ever others do, I intend a fincere notice, that I take of thole I 
 
 * know. I fee no evil (faith a fifth ) in keeping my Shop fhut,up- 
 ' on the Worlds Holy-Days [Faff Days, j for I would not willingly 
 'give Offence to my Neighbours, Hfc. 
 
 Reader, I have been the larger on this Quotation, becauie it may 
 evidently appear, beyond all their Gloffing, that like the Pharilees, 
 their Forefathers, they make void the Commands of God, by exalting 
 their own Traditions above them, faying, None are any further ob- 
 liged to obey the Commands of God in the Holy Scripture, than they 
 are convinced or perfuaded by their Tight to obey ; but their own 
 Commands, fuch as not paying Tythes, not marrying with a Prieft, 
 not putting off the Hat , not {hutting up their Shop-Windows on 
 Holy -Days, and Faft Days •, this is highly Criminal, to plead their 
 Liberty in thele Things, is Ranterifm and Rebellion. 
 
 To confirm this, George Whitehead faid, in Anlwer to a Minifter's 7™* Defen<1 - 
 Queftion, i.e. Is the Moral Taw, or Ten Commandments, a Rule tof^f^? ^ a ' a 
 the Lbrijiian s Life, or is it not f r 
 
 J Anfwer, (fays G. W.) thou might as well ask, If the Moral Taw queft. to Pro- 
 be a Rule to Chrift ? for the Chrijiians Tife and Rule is Chrifl, ficc.feffors, &c. 
 meaning the Tight withi/r. And this is much like Ifaac Pening- P- 2 > 
 ton, who faid, That the Name JESUS and CHRIST, belong to eve- 
 ry Member, as WETT as to the Head ; and if ib, Whitehead is in 
 the right on't ; they might as well indeed, carry the Ten Command- 
 ments to Chrift as to the ^jiakers : For on their own Hypothefis, 
 there is as much reafon, for the Quakers love to be equal with 
 
 Chrift, 
 
H The Pilgrim's Progrtfey 
 
 f, to, mi. Chrift, if not above him. See p. 10. 'What is attributed to that 
 'Body, [meaning the Son oiMary^ we acknowledge, and give to 
 'that Body in its place, according as the Scripture attributeth it, 
 'which is THROUGH and BECAUSE of THAT which dwelt 
 'andatted IN IT, but that which fan&ify'd and kept the Body 
 r.%) M.vk c pure, (a) and made all acceptable in him, was the Lite, Holinels, 
 kept Chrifts ' and Righteoufnefs of the Spirit •, and the fame THING which kept 
 Body pure. c his Veflel pure, it is the fame THIXG that cleanieth us ; the va- 
 ' lue which the natural Flefh and Blood Cof Chrift/] had, was from 
 C THAT, in its coming from THAT, in its acting in THAT, in its 
 M! -jm 'fufrering through THAT, p. 33. Now the Scriptures doth exprcf- 
 ' ' lydiftinguifh between CHRIST and the GARMENT which he 
 
 'wore-, between HIM that came, and the BODT in which he came ■, 
 'between the SUBSTANCE which wis VAILED, and the VAIL 
 ' which VAILED it-, there is plainly HE, and the BOl^T in which 
 ' HE came ; there was the OUTWARD VESSEL, and the INWARD 
 ^ LIFE ■ Th is we certainly know, and can never call the B0D1LT 
 r ijKi?. They' GARMENT CHRIST, (b) buxTHAT which appeared and dwelt 
 can never call c j^ thc BODT. Now if ye indeed know the CHRIST of God, tell 
 ^chrii?' Ml ' us P^ty what THAT is which appeared in the Body, whether 
 'T/LiTwas not the Chrift before IT took up the Body, after IT 
 ' took up the Body, and foT ever. 
 
 I am the larger on this Head, to fhew firft, George IVhfteheatfs 
 Pride, in faying, That the Commandments of God might as well be 
 carried to Chrift as the ^inkers ; next, that the Chnji which the 
 Compare the Quakers own only, isthe Light or Spirit which was in Chrift, and 
 laft Quotation ^ j n them-, laftly, that they can never call him that was "born of 
 mon' * >S * the Ble ^ ed Virgin Mary, Chrift, but a Vail or Garment, an outward 
 Yeffel, and the like : And for more of this tendency, I refer to George 
 Tl 1'irehciu/s Sermon hereafter expreffed, d?V. Having by this time 
 ihewed, That xhc Quakers have rejected the Government and Gui- 
 dance of the Light in the Particular to be fufficient, but that the Light 
 in the Particular rauft vail to the Light in the Body,or Church. I am 
 now come to fet forth their Authority for it, which was the Sentence 
 and Judgment of their Synod held at London, May 1666. 
 
 The Sentence of their London Synod 1666. Contracted. 
 
 Firft, 'We having a true difcerning of the Working ofthatSpi- 
 
 ' rit, "which under a ProfcfTion of Truth, leads into a Divifion from, 
 
 ' or Exaltation above the BODT of Friends, who never Revolted 
 
 fTiswell ' from their Principles, from the conftant Practice of good ancient 
 
 they tacitly ' Friends.who are found in the Faith once delivered to USj. We 
 
 conte ^ '■: ! s ' do unanimoufly declare and teftifie, That neither that Spirit, nor 
 
 once'deliyered ' tno ^ tnat are '°i ne d to K -> ought to have any Dominion, Office, or 
 
 to the Suinc ' Rule, in the Church of God. Secondly, 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifHanity. i ^ 
 
 Secondly, ' We do declare and teftifie, That the Spirit, and thole - 
 
 * who are joined to it, who ftand not in Unity with the Miniftry and 
 ''Body of Friends, have not any true fpiritual Right, nor GofpelAu- 
 
 * thority to be Judges in the Church, and of the Miniftry, 16 as to 
 'condemn them or their Miniftry ; neither ought their Judgment 
 c any more to be regarded by Friends, than the Judgment of any o- 
 ' ther Oppofers which are without ■, for of Right, the Elders and 
 ' Members of the Church, ought to judge Matters and Things which 
 
 * differ, and their Judgment which is given, to ftand good and valid 
 
 * amongft Friends. And we do further declare and teftifie, That it 
 4 is abominable Pride which goeth before Deftru&ion, which fo puffs 
 ' up the mind of any PARTICULAR, that he will not admit of any 
 
 * Judgment to take place againft him: FOR HE THAT IS AOf New Rmc 
 ' JUSTIFIED BT THE WITNESS OF GOD IX FRIENDS, JSexaftly. 
 
 * CONDEMNED BY IT IN HIMSELF. 
 
 Thirdly, ' If any Difference arife in the Church, or amongft 
 'them that profefs to be Members thereof, WE do declare andtefti- 
 4 fie, That the Church, with the Spirit of our Lord Jefus Chrift, AH Property 
 1 HAVE POWER, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF 'SUCH WHO isnow ioft,un- 
 1 DISSENT FROM THEIR DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE, TO^f 1 ^. be 
 ' HEAR AND DETERMINE THE SAME. And if any pretend JS iS&r*. 
 ' to be of us, and in cafe of Controverfy, will not admit to be TJRT- on, like the 
 ' ED by the Church, (i. e. the Body,) nor SUBMIT to the JUDG- star-chamber, 
 « MENT given by the Spirit of Truth in the Elders, and Members Sw!*]u- 
 ' of the fame, but kick againft their Judgment, as only the Judg- fti c? fo c > 
 ' ment of Man, WE teftifie in the Name of the Lord, That if any 
 c Judgment fo given be rifen againft, and denyed by the Party con- 
 4 demned, then He or She ought to be reje&ed, as having erred from 
 c the Truth, and perfifting thetein pre'fumptuoufly, are joined in 
 ' ONE, with Heathens and Infidels. 
 
 George Whitehead John Whitehead 
 
 Jofiah Coale Thomas Briggs 
 
 Stephen Crifp James Parke 
 
 John Moone Alexander Parker 
 
 Tfwmas Loe Richard Farnfworth, &c. 
 
 • 
 
 Having by this time fhewed, Firfl, How our Teachers in order 
 to bring us over to them, and to decoy us, told us, the Light within 
 was a fuffkient Guide, Teacher and Leader, even fufficient to lead 
 to Salvation ; yea, above Scriptures, above Fathers, above Councils, 
 and above Churches : I have in the laft inftance, fhewed the Fallacy 
 of their fo early, and fmooth Pretences •, and that from the beginning, 
 they have been a falfe, perfidious, and treacherous Tribe of Deceivers, 
 as ever the World produced. Well, now they appear plainly to be a 
 
 Body ; 
 
i6 
 
 Truth defend 
 ing tlic Qua- 
 kers,^, p. 1 8 
 
 •j- Bunough's 
 
 The Pilgrim's Progrefe, 
 
 Body , and I having found who is the Head of this Body, namely 
 George Fox, it will not be amiis to recite his Commandments •, which 
 whatever §>uaKer do not fubmit to, convinced or not convinced of the 
 reafbnablenefs of their Obedience, its now plainly feen what will be- 
 fall them. I need not comment upon the recited Canon, it's bare- 
 fae'd : I likewife fliall recite the Ten Commandments of Mojcs, 
 which the Quakers (light and reie£t, as not to be read in their Meet- 
 ings, not to be taught their Children-, nay, fo proud is G. White- 
 head^ that he tells you as above, The Jews might as well have car- 
 ried them to Chrift in the days ofhis Fleih, J7.z. the Ten Command- 
 ments lor him to learn, obferve, and obey them, as fortheChri- 
 ftians ro carry them to the Quakers to learn them, obferve and obev 
 them : f For lakh he, What is fpoken by the Spirit of Truth in 
 any, is of as great Authority as the Bible and Chapters are, and 
 greater. This is the Tenure and Purport of his Do&rine : and I do 
 affirm, it's right Quaker/fm : For Edivard Bit/rough laid, f That 
 works, p. 47. was no command from God to me, what he commands to another : 
 tjluajterjfma And IV. Venn confirms the whole Saying, f c No Command in Scri- 
 new Nick- c pturesisany further obliging upon ANT Man, than as he finds a 
 rjarncfor old, c Convi£i:Ion upon his Confcience, otherwifeMen lhould be engaged 
 er<-p. 71. « w i t hout, if not againft Conviction-, a thing unreafonable in a 
 4 Man, &?V. 
 
 Bat for their poor infatuated Difciples to plead, whether to con- 
 form or not, whether to obey or not, the Commands of George Fox, 
 i.e. not paying Tythes, nor to be Married with a Prieff not to put 
 off the Hat, not to open their Shops on Feafts or Faff Days ; I fay, 
 to plead to be left to their Freedom herein, and the Grace of God in 
 their Hearts ; Oh ! no : Says TV. Penn, This is a dangerous Prin- 
 ciple, this is a pernicious Plea, this is perfect Ranterifm. What ! 
 to have Liberty, whether to obey the Commands of the Body given 
 out by the Head thereof; This is wicked indeed, as by their Yearly 
 Epiftle above recited is plain : However, I lhall recite both the Com- 
 mands of Mojes, and the Commands of Fox, in hopes, fbme of the 
 Hearers at laft, may adhere to Scripture Commands, and reiect the 
 Qjtakers Unfcriptural Traditions, whereby they have endeavoured 
 to make the Commands of God of none effect, viz* 
 
 TI)e Commandments of God by bis 
 Servant Moles , fomevohat 
 Abbreviated , referring to 
 Exod. XX. ' 
 
 I. Thou fhalt have no other 
 Gods but me. 
 
 The Commandments oj G. Fox, 
 the Quakers fecond Moles, 
 Jbmewhat Al'breviated, and ta- 
 ken out of feveral ofhis Books. 
 
 I. Thou fhalt not pay Tythes to 
 the covetous Priefts n >r to the 
 Antl-chriftian Improprietors. 
 
 II. 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifHanity. 
 
 II. Thou fhalt not Mariy by, or 
 with a Prieft. 
 
 »7 
 
 II. Thou fhalt not make to thy 
 felf any Graven Image, or the 
 Likenefsof any thing that is 
 in Heaven above, &c. 
 
 III. Thou (halt not take the 
 Name of the Lord thy God 
 in vain, for the Lord will not 
 hold them Guiltlefs that ta- 
 keth his Name in vain. 
 
 IV. Remember thou keep holy 
 the Seventh Day, for it is 
 the Sabbath of the Lord thy 
 God ; in it, thou ihalt do no 
 manner of Work, thou, nor 
 thy Son, nor thy Daughter, 
 thy Man-fervant, nor thy 
 Maid-fervant, &c. 
 
 V. Honour thy Father and thy 
 Mother, that thy Days may 
 be long in the Land which 
 the Lord thy God ihall give 
 thee. 
 
 VI. Thou Ihalt not Kill. 
 
 VII. Thou ihalt not commit A- 
 dultery. 
 
 VIII. Thou fhalt not Steal. 
 
 IX. Thou fhalt not bear falfe 
 VVitnefsagainft thy Neigh- 
 bour. 
 
 X. Thou fhalt not covet thy 
 
 Neighbours Houfe, thou 
 
 fhalt 
 
 HI. Thou fhalt not put off thy 
 Hat in refpeft to thy Supe- 
 
 riors. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thou fhalt not fhut up thy 
 Shop on the World's Holy- 
 Days, Faft-Days, tfc at the 
 command of the Worldly 
 Magiftrates. 
 
 Thou fhalt not pay to- 
 wards the Repair of Parifh- 
 Churches. 
 
 VI. Thou fhalt not pay towards 
 the Trained-Bands, nor carry 
 Guns in thy Ship. 
 
 VII. Thou fhalt not wear Lace, 
 nor Ribbons, nor Skimming- 
 dilh Hats, nor fhort Aprons, 
 nor Slits on your Waftecoats, 
 nor long Scarfs like flying 
 Colours, nor unneceffary 
 Burtons. 
 
 VIII. You {hall have a Womans 
 Meeting diftinft from the 
 Men, once a Month at the 
 County -Town, about Ten a 
 Clock, to get a little Stock. 
 
 Thou {halt call the Days of 
 the Week, Firft, Second, 
 Third and Fourth Day, &c. 
 and the Months, Firft, Se- 
 
 IX. 
 
 cond, and Third Month, CV. 
 
 X. 
 
 I charge you all inthe 
 fenc 
 
 D 
 
 pre- 
 
 f the Lord God, That 
 
 you 
 
i8 
 
 The Pilgrims Progrejl 
 
 fhalt not covet thy Neigh- 
 bour's Wife, nor his Man- 
 fcrvant, nor his Ox, nor his 
 Aft, nor any thing that is 
 his, &c. 
 
 Exodus XX. 
 
 Verfe 18. And all the People 
 faio the Thundering* and the 
 Light /rings, and the Noife of the 
 Trumpet, and the Mountain 
 fmoaking. Verfe ip. And they 
 J aid ///7/0 Moles, /peak thou with 
 m, and we will bear : but let not 
 God J peak with us, left we die. 
 
 you judge not one another, 
 thole that be in the Uni- 
 
 /. c, 
 
 ty of the Miniftry, and El- 
 ders in the Church, left you 
 fall into the Condemnation 
 of the Monthly, Quarterly, 
 Six Weeks, Second Day, or 
 Yearly Meeting. Amen. 
 G. Fox' j- Tryal at Lancafter4/- 
 fizes, p. 21. 
 ' The thundering Voice An- 
 e fwered, I have glorifiu} thee, 
 ' and will glorifie thee again ; 
 'audi was lo filled full of Qo- 
 ' ry, that my Head and Ears was 
 'filled full of it i that when the 
 ' Trumpets founded, and the 
 'Judges came up again, they all 
 'appeared as dead Men under 
 'me. 
 
 I think it now neceffary to infert two Paflages out of two of the 
 ^takers moft learned Teachers Books •, the one, to deter their Hear- 
 ers from adhering to the Commands of Mofes ■, the other, ro con- 
 firm them in the belief of G. Fox's, vie. 
 The Quakers ' Whether rhe firft Penman of the Scriptures, was Mofes or 
 Refuge fixed, c u crms i Or, Whether both thefe, or not one ? Or, Whether 
 &(• p- J 7- i t fo eTC are not man y \v or( i s contained in the Scriptures, which were 
 ' not Ipoken by Infpiration of the Holy Spirit ? Whether fome Words 
 ' were not Ipoken by the Grand Impofture, lbme by wicked Men, 
 ' lbme by wife Men ill apply 'd,fome by good Men ill exprelfed, fome 
 ' by fil le Prophets, and yet true, fome by true Prophets, and yet 
 ' falie? This being ftiggeftedby Robert Ruckhill, an Eminent and 
 Learned Man ; I cannot blame his Hearers, who believe that he 
 wrote by the Eternal Spirit •, nor that they lay afide the Commands of 
 God by Mofes, and receive the Commands of G. Fox ; at leaft not 
 lb much as I blame their Teachers. For if I did ciueftion whether 
 Mofes or Hermes were the firft Pen-Man of the Holy Scriptures 5 or 
 whether both of them had a Hand in it, or neither of both was con- 
 cerned in the writing thereof; if I queftion'd the truth of what 
 the true Prophets of the Lord laid, and believ'd, that what the falfe 
 Prophets fa id, were true •, if I thought, that what good Men laid, 
 was ill exprefled, and lb infignificant, as hereby is fuggefted, truly, 
 I Ihould give as little heed to them as the Quakers do, and be ready 
 with George Fox himfelf 3 to call them Death, Duft, and Serpents 
 
 Meat. 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 19 
 
 Meat f. But I thank God, I have been better taught, even from t See News 
 my Childhood : For, tho' by the Diifimulation of thefe Seducers, c ° m 'ng u P 0Ut 
 I was carried away into great Errours ; yet the love of the Scriptures ?* ^ Nor:h ' 
 ever remained with me. 
 The next Paflage fhall be from their Learned Barclay ; c It is no T , lc Anarchy 
 
 * ways inconfiftent with this found and unerring Principle, to affirm, of the Ranters, 
 c That the Judgment of a certain Perfon, or Perfons, in certain Cafes, &c. p. 67. 
 
 * is INFALLIBLE ; or for a certain Perfon, or Perfons, to give a For more of 
 'pofitive Judgment, and pronounce it as Obligatory upon others, be- this quaker- 
 
 ' caufe the Foundations and Ground thereof IS; NOT becaufe they Popery,fee the 
 
 < are Infallible, but becaufe in thefe things, and at that time, they Piit V re ¥ 
 
 < were led by the Infallible Spirit. $£%& 
 
 By which 'tis plain, that as Ruckhtll in the forecited Paflage,ren- Life, &c p. 8. 
 der the Scriptures Uncertain, Fallible, and of no Authority • fodoestoitf. 
 Barclay render Quakerifm infallible Certain,and their Commands and 
 Injunctions Obligatory upon others : And why forfooth I Why,be- 
 caufe at fuch times as the Speakers thus Pronounce, thus Write, thus 
 give out their Mandates, Commandments and Precepts, they (fays 
 Barclay,) are led thereunto by the Infallible Spirit. 
 
 Some Inferences from the Fourth Chapter. 
 
 IS it ib then, that the tendency of the Quakers Do&rine is to un- 
 dervalue the Holy Scriptures, to rob them of their Divine Autho- 
 rity, and thereby to exalt their own Horn ? Let this then be a cau- 
 tion to their Hearers, to examine the Quotations, which I bring to 
 prove my Afiertions 5 and if they find it fo, (as that they may ; for I 
 have ever been willing, and ftillam, to produce Book and Page, to 
 prove matter of Fa£t,) then let them carry the faid Books to their 
 Teachers, to condemn and cenfure, as Heretical, and tending to over- 
 turn the Chriftian Religion ; and if not, let them if they be wife, 
 turn their Backs upon them, forfake their Errours, and imbrace the 
 Chriftian Faith •, fo fhall the end of all my Labour and Pains be An- 
 iwered •, but if they (after all the Pains my felfand others have ta- 
 ken,) will ftillfhut their Eyes, and flop their Ears, my Reward will 
 be with me, and they fhall bear their own Burthen in the Day of 
 the Lord. 
 
 D 2 CHAP. 
 
20 The "Pilgrim's Progrefi* 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 Gfoeth many Rcafons, both Negative and Affirmative, That 
 George Fox took, himfelf to be a Second Moies ■-, and that 
 the heads of the Quakers attributed to him Divine Honour, as 
 Head of their Church, and Lawgiver to it. 
 
 TO come to aright Underftanding of this, I fhall firft infert 
 an Obje&ion raifed by W. Rogers, f [and by him taken 
 out of a Manufcript, with Names to it : 3 next George 
 ftingwfhed, fox's Anfwer ; and then proceed to other particular Reafons and De- 
 &c Pare I. monft rations. 
 
 p ' 9 ' Objetl. ' Tis true, Friends in the beginning were turned to the 
 
 c Light in their own Conferences, as their Guide •, but when it plea- 
 ' fed the Lord, to gather fo great a Number into the Knowledge and 
 ' Belief of the Truth, then the Heavenly Motion came upon George 
 4 fox, as the Lord's Anointed and Cholen, having the care of the 
 c Churches, as being the great Apoftle of Chrift Jefus ; and as one, 
 ' whom the Lord had ordained to be in that place, amongft the Chil- 
 dren of Light in this our Day, as Mofcs was amongft the Children 
 c of//>vf/inhisDay, to let forth Methods and Forms of Church- 
 £ Government, and to eftabliih Monthly and Quarterly Meetings of 
 'Men, and Women diftincl: ftom the Men-, and t'hefe Meetings 
 ' fince, are called the Church, whole Counfel, Advice, and Judgment, 
 ( is to be fubmitted unto by every one who profefs himfelf a Member 
 c of Quiffs Church ; and that we ought to believe as the Church be- 
 jGWhitdxafs c Ueves, as G. Whitehead teacheth, f viz. I affirm, that the true 
 Book, the A- c Church is in the true Faith that is in God, and we muft believe thus 
 diary 1 /«•?* ' ** tne true Church believes, or elfe it were but both a Folly and Hy- 
 p! iV. ' ' pocrify to profefs our felves Members thereof. 
 
 This Objection W. Rogers made, from the ftrength of divers Ar- 
 
 , , .„. guments he found in the Manufcript, from the Words and Writings 
 
 an ouak. di-'" of divers Perfbns, whofe Names he did forbear to mention ; but for 
 
 ftm^jifted the clearing up this Point, Whether G. fox looked upon himfelf the 
 
 from the a- Second Mojes, the great Prophet and Apoftle, fee his Anfwer to 
 
 port, and In- j r . foger* f. 
 
 "Kee George foxs ANSWER. 
 
 Fart 4. p. 83. 
 
 c William Rogers, thou fay'ft, There is a Spirit rifen at this day, 
 
 'that gives many occafion to be jealous, that I am look'd upon by 
 
 ' fbme, as that Prophet which Mofes teftify'd of, that God would 
 
 •fDeuc.18.15. c raifeup, f but who they are thou haft not mention'd. And thou 
 
 ' fay'ft, Chrift is that Prophet that is to be heard, &c. and he is the 
 
 'only 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 2 1 
 
 c only Lawgiver, and no outward Man f. Then is not this Pro- fSa w. Rogers 
 ' phet to be in Man, to give forth his Law, which comes after Mo- ldld '■> now 
 . <jls ? But I cannot deny that Prophet which Mofes fpake of, to £ h £™° 
 'be railed up-, fori know, that it is he that is oppofed, and his fwer. 
 'Law too, by many Talkers of him ; and the Light of his Glorious 
 'Gofpel, and the Order of it; and what I am, I am by the Grace 
 ' and Love of God-, and will not deny f the Prophet which came + Den y> no; 
 1 after Mofes, nor the Eleftion, before the World began, tho* all Lody defied 
 ' turn into the Jealoufies in which they were before they were con- that: But if 
 ' vinced ; lor I believe,few of them that does oppofe,knows this Pro- he had not 
 ' phet that comes LiferMofes.xho thev may fpeak of him in Words : ?Tr ncd i hi ? 1 " 
 ' of which Prophet I am not afhamed. £;$£ £" 
 
 ought to have 
 
 Reader, the Text and Context being duly confider'd, I mean W. been plain, 
 Rogers Objection, touching the common Jealoufies which was a- n " dd Jjr ied r. 
 mongft us at that Day, befides the Letters in the faid Manuscript, that Prophet! 
 £?V. I fay, that duly confider'd on the one hand, and G. Fox's An- as John did.' 
 iwer on the other hand, which was fo far from denying himfelf to T «*»•*'*• 
 be that Prophet which ill^v prophefyed of, Dent. 18.15. and St. W Uf. ™ 
 Steven teftified of, A7.r 7. 37. and St. Peter, A>7j 3. 23. and St. ' 0! ' lii: '' 
 John the Evangelifts, John 1. 45. Thefe, and many others, gave 
 witnefs to the fulfilling of the Prophefy of Mofes, in fending the 
 promifed Mefiab -, I fay, G. Fox's Anfwer was fb far from denying 
 himfelf to be that Prophet which Mofes Prophefied of, that it con- 
 firmed us in that Day -, and fince, much more, that he did not deny, 
 but rather owned the Charge. 
 
 Buttoftrengthen my Argument, I fhall give fome fmall hints, 
 (and but name them, having been heretofore more large,)firft, What 
 he faid of himfelf-, next, What his Followers faid of him. 
 
 Firji, (a) Written from the Mouth of the Lord, from one who is J^ 6 * 5 c °' u 
 naked, and ftands naked before the Lord, cloathed with Righteouf- (b) This' is 
 nefs, whofe NAME is A^DT known in the World, rifen up out of New s indeed; 
 the North, which was Prophefied of, (b). ^"ro^he- 
 
 fied of Fox's 
 
 Secondly, My Name is covered from the World, and the World Rifing in the 
 knows not ME, nor MJ NAME, (c). ?""> ? 
 
 ' V J (c) Several 
 
 Thirdly, HE that HATH the fama Spirit tint raifed Jefus from fwereXps"" 
 the dead, is EQUAL with God, (d.) (J) SaLrs ti- 
 
 rand to Da- 
 
 Fourththly, All Languages are to me no more than Duft, who "f"*' p _ 8 ' 
 was before Languages were, (e). iie-dSrSS 
 
 Fifthly, Introd, 
 
11 
 
 The Pilgrim's Prbgrefe 
 
 '41 
 
 f g. Fox's Fifthly, And the Thundering Voice Anfwered, I have Glorified 
 ryai at Lan- thee^ and will Glorifie thee again •, and I was filled fo full of Glory, 
 cafitr, p. s i . t j ut my H ca d and Ears was rilled full of it, &c . (J) 
 
 Reader, here was fulnefs of Glory, if his Head and Ears wasfo 
 filled, £fc> However, 'tis plain, it alludes to John 12. 18, i<5, 14. 
 and 17, 1. For nothing would pleafe him, but to be equal, if not a- 
 bove Chrift, as One hundred inftances might be given. 
 
 Next., I may juft name lome few of thofe High Titles and Di- 
 vine Attributes, which his Difciples and Followers (Men of great- 
 eft Note amongft them,) gave him, which are only due to Chrift, 
 who was the Prophet/TI^/h- Prophefied of^and not the fubtle Fox, the 
 doting ^jiakers fo much admire and idolize. 
 
 , , and RW?, f George Fox, .the Father of many Nations, who's Being 
 lhejZs,p-H. an d Habitation is in the Power of the Higheft, in which thou Rules 
 ' and Governs in Righteoufnels, and thy Kingdom ■ is eftablilhed in 
 Peace, and the Increale thereof is without end. 
 
 t John Aud- Secondly, f Dear and Precious one, in whom my Life is bound up, 
 land's Letter and my Strength in thee ftand ^ by thy Breathings I am nouriified, 
 to George Fox.ty thee my Strength is renewed •, I cannot Reign but in thy Pre,- 
 tHoly George, fence an< i Power ; Glory unto thee Holy One f for ever. 
 
 t The Chri- Thirdly, f George Fox (faid John Blaikling,) is bleffed with Ho- 
 ftiandifting. nourabove many Brethren, and thoufands will I ftahd by him in a 
 Pare y. p. 77. Heavenly Record, that his Life Reigns, and is Spoii-ls •. whofe eter- 
 nal Honour and bleffed Renown (hall remain, yea, his Prefence ; and 
 the Dropping of his tender Words in the Lord's Love, was my Souls 
 Nouriihment. 
 
 t The Qua- Fourthly, f George Fox, 2. Prophet indeed ; it was faid of Chrift, 
 kers Chai- that he was in the World, and the VV'orld was made by him, and 
 lenge, p. 6. the World knew him not. SO it may be laid of this Prophet G. Fox. 
 
 Fifthly, To confirm all this, William Mead now living, when he 
 &xxq Willi jm Harris one of George Fox's Journals, he laid to him, ■ 
 Here W.Harri;, I will give thee one oi' George Fox's Journals, it is 
 & very good Book, yea, better than the Bible. 
 
 Objeft.i. But fome may fay, this is only TV. Mend's Judgment •, 
 furely, the Quakers do not hold, that either their Books, orFwr's 
 Journal, is better, or of greater Authority than the Bible •, for the 
 
 Fathers 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 2 j 
 
 Fathers and Councils all fubmitted to the Teft of Holy Scripture, a> 
 the Word of God. 
 
 Anfw. To this I Anfwer, That W. Mead is a knowing Man ; I 
 will not lay a wile Man, unlefs in that one A&ion of his, whereby 
 he vigoroully oppoled W. Pentt, and endeavoured to exclude hirn 
 out of their Miniftry, when he was proclaimed a Traytor to his 
 Country, for being chargd to be in the Plot with the Lord Ere/Ion, 
 and others, and was therefore forced to hide many Months ; Cand for 
 which, his Preface to Fox's Journal, was not admitted to be bound 
 up'with the Journal, but waited upon it like a poor Lacquey with its 
 Blue Livery ; J I fay,thi#A£t,ion of his excepted^ will not fay he was 
 a wife Man ; yet, as I faid, he is a knowing Man, and fpakc the 
 Heart of Qj/j/ccrifm, in faying, George Fox's Journal is better than 
 the Bible. 
 
 Firft, As you have heard, 'tis queftion'd by the Quakers, Whether + The £m- 
 Mofes or Herme s was the firft Pen-man of the Scripture ; indeed, kert Re&ge 
 -Whether either or neither of them, f. fixed > &'• 
 
 But as for what George Fox and Friends write, it is from and by p ' ' 7 ' 
 the Motion of God's Eternal Spirit, and avouched fo to be by a Gene- 
 ral Council of the Yearly Meeting f : And what any of our Friends t Held at i*>t. 
 fpeak from the Spirit of Truth, is of greater Authority than the Bl- «KMay 169s 
 ble and Chapters are, f. Now, who can blame T\ r . Mead on the t Truth de- 
 Sjttakers Principles \ Is not a certainty better than an uncertainty ? ^L" 8 *'•-• 
 
 Secondly, The Scriptures lay many Obligations upon us-, it teach- J^"*. ers ' 
 eth us the obfervation of the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, ibid. p. 18. 
 the Apoftles Creed, Baprifm, and the Lord's Supper, which the Jour- 
 nal do s not at all teach, nor inforce the Belief of 5 only to liften, ad- * Mattb.a.ii, 
 here, and hearken to the Light wtibin, and to obey its Dictates : wfo* 3- »• 
 Therefore, as the Journal is moft certain, fo it is moft eafie, and R w>-n-h*-i- 
 therefore the beft Book, and of moft Authority, and on the Quakers J 7 / ' 2 ' ,3 '' 4> 
 Hypothefis, confirm all thofe Particulars above quoted. See alfo Tin- 
 
 Thirdly ', The Scripture teacheth,to obey Magiftrates as the high- ***« Works, 
 er Power, and that we Ihould fubmit our felves to every Ordinance ^11%"'" m** 
 of Man for the Lord's fake, *. &c p.Ti 1 . "' 
 
 But the Journal f (and our Friends Books) teach both by Pre<Jeptt7<M.™»/,p.4o. 
 and Example, That the Light in every Man is the higher Power, to t0 4°°- 
 whom all muft fubmit and obey ; for to it, all Power in Heaven and 
 Earth is committed, f j and that this Light is one, in the Male and t Jofi coal's 
 in the Female ; but to a proud, heady, high-minded Man, there is no Works, />. 91. 
 Honour due, rho' he be in a place to Rule, f. And if fo, who can + smith's 
 fay, that IK Meadipake unadvifedly, in faying, The Journal of Fox Primmer, 
 is better than the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apoftles < I think p 43- 
 him a right Quaker, a knowing Man, and one that loves a certainty 
 better than an uncertainty. 
 
 Fourthly, The Scriptures teach, That Women fhould obey their 
 
 Husbands ; 
 
24 The Pilgrim's Prsgrefi 
 
 • Gm. 3. us. Husbands •, yea, tbat ihey Reverence them, and live in Subjection to ' 
 Numb. 30. to them as their Head. * quoting Sarah as an Example, 
 the end. g ut t j ie ] ourna l teaches, That the Light is the higher Power, that 
 
 ip'm'i. it is one in the Male and in the Female, and 'tis the Light in each 
 Tit<u\. V that is to be obeyed-, for to that, all Power in Heaven and Earth is 
 eoltf. 3. 18. committed,* and that there is to be no reipett ofPerfons ; and if the 
 Ephef. y.12. \\\fe conceive her Husband to be gone from the Light, and the Gui- 
 Primir p. 13. dance ofjt, and fhe be moved to rebel againft her Husband, betray 
 The Journal, his Secrets to his Adverfaries, yea, to give publick Tefcimony againft 
 p. 50. to 450. him, fhe does well, and ihall have praife of the fame, t : And for 
 t The Conten. ^ }S R ea f orij tne §>gakers do not put in, or rtiftke the Woman promife 
 jpoj ate, c ^ ^gjj Certificate', l0 obey their Husbands ; which, as it is contra- 
 ry to the Tenure of the whole Book of God, both the Old and New 
 see their Mar- Teftament, fo 'tis agreeable to G. Fox's Journal, and their antient 
 
 rijeCertifi. Teftimonyi 
 
 Fifthly, In a word, the Scriptures teach, That Children fhould 
 obey their Parents, and Honour their Father and Mother, that Ser- 
 vants fhould obey their Mafters, thatSubje&s fhould fubmit to their 
 Governours, and obey Magiftrates, that Chriftians fhould obey their 
 Pallors, who are over them in the Lord, who watch for their Souls, 
 as thofe that muft give an account. 
 
 But the Journal teaches the contrary, both by Precept upon Pre- 
 jtumal, p 20. ce p t ^ as a ^- ^ t h e Practice of their great Apoftle G. Fox, who not 
 only broke the Laws in disturbing the Minifters in their Churches, 
 but taught fo to do •, not only refufed to payTythes,but taught fo to do ; 
 not only ilighted theMagiftratesCommand,(whooftentimes command- 
 ed a ftri£l Faft to be kept.) but taught his Followers fo to do : Nay, 
 lately one Thomas. Majh an antient Quaker, living at Nezcberry in 
 Berklhire, was moved by his Light within-, to open his Shop-win- 
 dows on the Lord's Day, as on Market-Days, and fet out his Goods 
 to Sale -, this theJournafjuftifies,t •, this Whitehead iuftifies, • : Nay, 
 p locTto the Theft by Fox is likewifejuftihed, who laid, And as for any being mo- 
 end the Lord, [meaning their hight within^ to take awav vour Hour- 
 
 * Truth Jtfad- Grafs frorrtyou, BY THE ETERNAL POWER IT IS OWNED, 
 »Mgf/wQua- gr c ]^ay, their idolized Apoflle, not only difregarded theMagi- 
 Fo>Cs P great Urates and their Laws, but declared in plain and ligniflcant Words, 
 M)ji. &c. p.77. That he neither heeded, nor valued a Cart load of their War- 
 
 f Journal, railtS, f'c.f 
 
 P a ? 8 - Objelf. 2. Rut feme Men will fav, How then fhall we reconcile the 
 
 Doarineoflf. ylLWand G. Whitehead? Mr. Mead faith, That 
 + the Country G. Fox's Journal is a better Book than the Bible ; and G. Il /■//, 
 convert, &c. fojrh, f VV e prefer the Holy Scriptures above all other Books extant 
 
 • P- i6 - in the World. 
 
 To which IAnfwer: Very well-, for/. 72. G. Whitehead thus 
 
 faith, 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 2 5 
 
 faith, viz. I MAY SEE CAUSE OTHERWISE TO WORD THE p. 7*. «M 
 .MATTER, iiA^ TET OUK INTENTIONS BE THE SAME, 
 &c. Very well ; now to make it appear, that G. Whitehead means 
 one and the fame thing that William Mead meaned, read his little 
 Book, f i- e> That which isfpokenfrom the Spirit of Truth in ANY, t Truth Defen- 
 is of as great AUTHORITY as the SCRIPT^ "RES and CHAPTERS *»g »» Qua- 
 are, and GREATER: And on the Title Page thus, viz. rm^- ker *' <Kp •*• 
 TEN FROM THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, in G Whitehead, and 
 G. Fox the Younger: Now, if this little Pamphlet in Offavo of 70 
 Pages, be of greater Authority than the Scriptures and Chapters are, 
 how much more G. Fox's Journal in Folio, of near 700 Pages I For 
 that which is beft, is of moft Authority, generally fpeaking-, and 
 that which is of moft Authority, is the beft. Thus then is the Jour- 
 nal of Fox's better, in the $>uafiers'E{keem, than the Bible ; and thus 
 does Whitehead mean, even as Mr. Mead tpoke. 
 
 Objeff. But fbme will fay, How then (hall we know a Speaker, if Objeft. 3, 
 not by the import of his Words i 
 
 I Anfiver, 'tis impoffible to know them rightly, as it ever was for Anrwer. 
 the Proteftants to know the Jefuites •, and therefore, you ought to do 
 as the Proteftants did, TO DISTRUST EVERY THING THEY* see the *ok 
 SAY, f : For as the Quakers ftand on the fame Bottom, and are E»t,tuied,The 
 found in the fame Steps, with the fame Equivocations, Referves and **$**?* 
 Double -meanings ; and the fame pretences to Miracles, Vifions, Re- panted ,688 
 velations, Perfection and Infallibility •, they ought to have the fame 
 Anfwer, viz. To diftruft them in all they fay, until they retra£t 
 Sentence, and condemn one fort of their Books ^ and this is highly 
 realbnable on their part, if they would be taken to be at all, ferious, 
 fincere and honeft : For many of their Hearers of the honeft fort, 
 begin to think G. Whitehead little better than a Jefuite already, he 
 hath been fo falfe in Fa£t, fuch a Gloffer and Defender of every Er- 
 rour the Quakers hold, f I have a Letter by me, which my Coufin ^ Am Docwa 
 AnnDoczvra, W idow of Cambridge, fent me, dated 26th of 12th of Cambridge, 
 Month, 1 <$8 2. viz. C G. Whitehead have fent one of his Books for her z>«w,Da- 
 ' me to read, and there is the old Money Story in it, with I know not ^ d A 6 ^ '^ 
 1 what befides : I was asked by an honeft Friend, if he was not a '"' ; ' 
 ''Jefuite ? I anfwered, nay, it is not fblid enough for them to own, 
 'efpecially when they write to a fblid People-, there is pretty much 
 ' airy conceited Stuft in it. A NN DOQYRA. 
 
 Thus it appears, how long the honeft fort of Quakers have taken 
 G. W. to be little better than a Jefuite, and my Coulin D'ocvora was of 
 the fame mind too, elfe fhe would not have given me her honeft 
 Friend's Judgment ; only indeed, fhe is thus far of my mind, That 
 Book was not fblid enough-, the Jefuites are more cunning than 
 G. Whitehead then was, but he is come on finely fince -, for. 
 of late, he is grown fb expert, as he can Vindicate or Excufe any 
 
 E Blafphemy, 
 
26 The Pilgrim's frogrefs, 
 
 Blafphemy, Idolatry, contempt of the Scriptures, contempt of the 
 Magi (hates contempt of the Miniftry, contempt on the Perlbnand 
 Sufferings of Guilt-, yea, and undervalue his precious Blood too: 
 And how contrary ibever their Sayings are to each other, yet they 
 mean all one thing, referring to their Beginning. I have in my for- 
 mer Books 1 hewed, how their Books are of two ibrts, their Meet- 
 ings of nvo forts, their Doctrine of two forts, carrying two Faces in 
 all they do or lay •, and yet Whitehead can tell you, they mean all 
 ooe, things One Example more I may give, and to fhall conclude 
 thrs^Ch-ipter. 
 
 I iSH a Recital of a Letter, writ by Solomon Ecclcs to Robert Por- 
 
 | EntitukJ, fw,in a Book of William Burned, f viz. ' Robert Porter, take heed. 
 
 rbe Capital ' ' of Bel v ing the Innocent •, for I hear thou haft reported to a Friend of 
 
 principle; of < m ine, that I fhould lay, That the Blood of Chrift is no more than 
 
 ;/- Quaker^ < the Blood of another Man :, I never fpoke it, but do very highly 
 
 1668! ' ' efteem of the Blood of Chrift to be more excellent, living, holy and 
 
 ' precious, than is able to be uttered by the Tongues of Men and An- 
 
 4. Ptrwrfim ; <■ gels ; I MEAJ\', the Blood w'hich was offered up in f the Eternal 
 
 'Z^thfEter^ ' spirit, Htb - ?• *4- But the Blood that was forced out of him by 
 
 'vJ Spirit'*^ c the Soldiers after he was dead, who before that, bowed his Head 
 
 Ueb. 9. 14. ' to the Father, and gave up the Ghoft ; but thou lay ft, that was 
 
 'the Blood of the New Covenant, which was fried after he was 
 
 ' dead •, which J DO DENT. Yet I did fay, That was NO more 
 
 ' THAN tie BLOOD of another SAINT: Thefe are my Words 
 
 ' which thou art wrefting, to thy own Deftruchon. I did Calib] fay, 
 
 ' That the Baptifts, Independants, Presbyterians and Pope, are all of 
 
 ' one Ground ; and none of you underftand the Blood of Jefus Chrift, 
 
 1 no more than a Brute Beaft : Therefore repent, for God will fbon 
 
 ' overthrow your Faith, and your imputative Righteouihefs too, 
 
 c for the imputation of Chrift's Righteoufnefs which he did ntjeru- 
 
 ' falem, and without the Gates : The Pope, the Epifcopal, the Pref- 
 
 c byterian, Independents and Baptifts, lhall fare all alike, and lhall 
 
 ' fit down in Sorrow, f hort of the Eternal Reft : But the true impu- 
 
 ' tative Righteoufhefs of Chrift we own, but it is hid from you all, 
 
 « till the Lord open an Eye WITHIN TOV, 8a. 
 
 Now comes G. Whitehead with his ufual Paint, to cover, palliate, 
 
 and excufe his Brother Eccles, laying, f ' Now whereas Sol. Eccles, 
 
 ysAhis Bock, <■ jn/>.-4i. is accufed of little left than Blafphemy, about a Letter 
 
 '" V ''% U f ht ' cme %' °^ a Paffage concerning the Blood, in thefe Words, viz. 
 
 chrift within, ' The Blood that was forced out of him by the Soldiers after he was 
 
 &c. Privtcd ' dead, who before that bowed his Head to the Father, and gave up 
 
 i66». " the Ghoft ; I did fay, THAT WAS NO MORE THAN THE 
 
 < BLOOD OF ANOTHER SAINT. Now to thefe Words, NO 
 
 "MORE THAN THE BLOOD OF ANOTHER SAINT, his 
 
 ' I A TEA T WAS, as to Papifts, and you whofe Minds are Carnal, 
 
 'who 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 27 
 
 * who oppofe the Light zvithin,an& ALSO S IMPLT as to the ES- 
 
 ' SENCE ofthe BLOOD, &c 
 
 Thus much by way of G. Whitehead's Interpretation of Salomons 
 Words and Meaning, which I take to be a fair Confeilion of the 
 Charge of Blafphemy, exhibited by Mr. Burnet : But to confirm the 
 the Reader, that the Quakers are defective in the Faith ofthe Chri- 
 ftians in general! will (hew another Paflage ofthe fame Kind ; there- 
 by, (hewing the ^takers Harmony about the Body of Chrift, from "tw. Bayifs 
 another of their Eminent Authors, f viz. ' So, now this Chrift was Worh, p. 291, 
 ' before the World began, and was a Seedf before any Name was *? 2 > 3 00 '3°7- 
 ' given to it, who in procefs of time, was born of a Virgin •, but none «>/*' w ^^"" 
 ' knows him born, or ever ihall, but of a Virgin ; (he that hath Ears, 
 ' let him hear, ) be thou CMan] but the Virgin, the Power of the 
 « moft High (hall over-fhadow thee ; and that HOLT THING which 
 ' fhallbe born of thee, (hall be called the Son of God ; and faith 
 ' Chrift, a CBody] haft Cthou] prepared for [me ; ] mark the diftin- 
 ' ttion, Qhou] me] and [a Body,] this me that fpake in the Bodv, 
 ' was the Chrift. They Chis Difciples] loved his Peribn for trie 
 c fake ofthe Frame and Quality of the Spirit that dwelt in Him ; 
 ' or elfe, what was his Perfon tothem,more than another Peribn ? But 
 ' for that that dwelt in him, they loved him ; let none miftake, I do 
 c not flight it, nor the Perfon of any of his Brethren or Children, («M'** BW 
 'as they are prepared to do the Will of their Wither, (a) &c. ^ : ' 1 ''f'-f the 
 
 And hereupon, they do not only deny Chrift, even the Lord that tJtb % C th!w ' 
 bought them, as in my Book, Qiiakerifm withering, andCbrifliani- DoBnm no pre, 
 ty reviving, &c. I have fhewed beyond all their doffing ; but allb, /"■""' al "> w 
 how thev thereby take' occafion to magnifie THEMSELVES, their t t! B H d, , Mi 
 OWN Blood, their OWN Sufferings, asIfhaU yet briefly fhewrj" Sa iT 
 ' For faith Ifaac Pennington, (b) The Name Jefus and Chrift belong ^ JQ, IP a im 
 4 to the whole Body, and every Member in the Body as well as to to Pnfcjfin; 
 ' tlie Head : Again, (c) faith Jofiah Code, his {Edward Burroughs) &c- ?• so, 2 7. 
 c Blood will be upon you as the Blood of 1 000 Men : Again, faith U -I'f- ^"^ 
 'Thomas Speed, (d) Do not rafhly draw your Swords againftthofeE;!^. /' 
 ' harmlefs ones, [>'. e. Quakers,] whom your bloody Teachers cloath WMu*8tc. 
 ' and reprefent to you in the ugly Garb of Blafphemers •. remember, <VJ s " •-'•'-• 
 ' that the Son of God who filtered at Jerufalem, was not Crucified 2j^ a y cr:A 
 'by the ftricf Religious, as an innocent or juft Man, but as a Blaf -&c*prf tJ , 
 'phemer^ be not [therefore] prevailed with, to releafe B.u\?bb.u, ' ' t 
 c (e) and give over Jefus to be Crucified, to gratifie the murtherousW F ° r l k e 
 ' Appetite either ofthe Priefts or the Multitude, considering, timf av "^ eSl ^'\ 
 ' tho' you may with Pi/ate, wafh your Hands, fand to thofe Eyes Sieving 
 ' that are dazled with Fury againft Innocent Jefus ; ) \j. e. the Qua- Quakers, at 
 ' kers] appear clear from his Blood ; yet, before the pure Eyes ofthe feUasto chrift 
 'Lord, will the condemning Stain thereof be found upoi TOU fb *** r HeaJ .' ,'""' 
 'ftefli, THAT TOU W1LLBT NO MEANS BE THEKCE%fj7Z Ut 
 
 E 2 CLEAXSED :£ oo/ 
 
28 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 'CLEANSER BUT BTTHE SAME BLOOD WHICH WU SO 
 '■CRVELLT SHED: Again, lee Burroughs Works, p. 273. 'The 
 ' fuffering of the People of God Lcall'd g>jiakcrs^~] in this Age, is a 
 * GREATER Suffering, and MORE unjuft than in the Days of 
 ' CHRIST, or of the APOSTLES, or in ANY time SINCE ^ what 
 'was done to CHRIST and the APOSTLES, was CHIEFLY done by 
 ' a LAW, and in a GREAT part by the DUE EXECUTION of a 
 ' LAW, &c. 
 
 Now to clofe up this Head, let us hear, what Father Penn lays - y 
 for none of them all exprefs themfelves more full to the Point in 
 hand, viz. 
 (f) ibe c - ' To conclude, We, (f) tho' this general Victory was obtained, and 
 ftiM Quaker, ' Holy Priviledges therewith, and that the Holy Body was not in- 
 Mdhs Di-vine t ftrumentally without a fhare thereof ; yet, that the efficient and 
 p io"^' C ' c chiefift Caiiie was, the Light and Life, (g) p. 102. fo that the in- 
 ( s ) within. ' vifible Life was the Root and Fountain of all, which is fometimes 
 c afcribed in the Scriptures to the Body, by that common Figure or 
 c way of fpeaking amongft Men •, the thing containing, which is the 
 ' Body, for the thing contained, which is the Life, p. 2op. Never- 
 ' theleis, not to the Body, but to that holy Light and Life therein, 
 (h) As in tit « (/,) i s chiefly afcribed the Salvation ; and to the Body however ex- 
 QuikerV Bo- c ce n ent) but inftrumentally, p. £7, p8. The Serpent is a Spirit ; 
 'now nothing can bruiie the Head of the Serpent, but fomething 
 0) Mark htrt^ that is Spiritual •, but if that BODY of CHRIST were the SEED, 
 cbrifl the fro- 1 (,-j tnen cou \^ ne notBruifethe Serpent's Head in all, becaufe the 
 
 Gen" £ ll ' the B0DY ° f CHRIST is n0t f0 mUGh aS in an y 0ne 5 < k ) and 
 
 the son if Da- c cohfequently, the Seed of the Promife is an Holy Principle of Light 
 vid,c/"Mary,< and Life, that being received into the HEART, bruifeth the Ser- 
 ispiaMy dtny- , - s Head . AND BECAUSE THE SEED WHICH CANNOT 
 an-flo/cu 'BE THAT BODY, IS CHRIST • as teftifie the Scripture : The 
 ' Seed is one, and that Seed is Chrift. (I) They are falfe Minifters 
 (k) res-, by ' that Preach Chrift without, and bid People believe in him, as he 
 **?'''^ ' is in Heaven above: But they that are Chrift's Minifters, preach 
 
 10" 1 1. ; 4 ' Chrift within, (m) Your imagined God beyond the Stars 5 and your 
 Luke 2. 11. ' carnal Chrift is utterly deny ed, that this Chrift is God and Man in 
 (i) smith's ' one Perlon, is a Lie, &c. 
 
 ("^Z' £' 8 ,'.j Reader, I have taken in enough, to fhew the Marrow of the ^ita- 
 tftheLrd° r ^ ers Divinity, and the Harmony of their antient Teftimonies : And 
 drawn, p. 5. they tell you, in a late Print, (n) That God is the fame, Truth is the 
 (?0 m peo- fame, his People the lame, their Principles are the lame, Vc. And 
 f k C " U cUa^T" m anotner 5 (°) ^ ur Principles are now no other than what they 
 &c. S pT"' were 3 when we were firft a People. So that, there needs no Com- 
 (c) primitive ment •, only for further latisfaftion, I refer to my former Books,AYw> 
 Christianity, Rome unmtuKd^ and her foundation Jhaken, &c. New Rome ar- 
 triw P\6a% ra '£ n '^3 and cut of her own Moutb condemned^ 8tc, Qttakerifm 117- 
 
 xberingy 
 
From Quakerifm to Chri/h'anity. 29 
 
 withering.) and Chriflianity reviving, &c. The Snake in the Grafs ; 
 
 8cc. Satan dij robed, &c. Prim five Herefie, &c. And George Keith's * 
 
 Three Narratives, and Mr. Crifp's A/iimadverfions,' &c. to avoid 
 
 repetition : Yet, leaft thofe Books may not come into fome hands 
 
 which this may, I thought it needful to give thefe brief Hints, for 
 
 Information. 
 
 QbjeQ. 4. But ftill fome may urge, What ! Hath W. Mead no 
 other Reafbn for his Saying, Fox's Journal was better than the Bible i 
 
 Anfw. I do not grant, that he hath any good Reafon that's far 
 from me, neither do I know of any better ; I know of fome other, 
 which with him may go far, which in britfj are, An< . 
 
 Hrji,George Fox's MiracleSjWh'ch he writ in his own Name, like cap' iy ?.\]° 
 thofe* of Sitncn Magus, and certain Vagabond Jews, Exorcifts; (p) if) Journal', 
 but thefe lying Wonders came too late, fome 20, fome 30 years P l6 ?> J 7 > 
 after they were faid to be done ; no bodyjjnows where, nor when, nor H'' o~ 3 ' 2 * 7 8 l 
 who were cured, nor no Witnefs to ati|fl the Truth thereof: Read 70 | 370, 371" 
 the Margin for direction. 373, 503? 
 
 idly, Becaufe fox pretended,that God fent a Trooper to him whilft 
 Prifbner in the Houie of Correction, as he fent Saul to Annanias,(q). / \ j ounia r 
 
 idly, Becaufe he (Fox) pretended he had Vifions, as had E^^-p. 4 y. 
 kid, (r). ( r ) P . 69. 
 
 yhly, For that Fox pretended, that the Keeper of the Houfe of 
 Correction came Trembling to him, as the Goaler did to Paul and 
 Sila*,(s). (,; P . 37. 
 
 yh/y, That he faw the Heavens open, as St. Stephen did, (t). (>) 47 . 
 
 6thly, That he fpake like an Angel in Beverly Church, the won- 
 derful things of God, (u). (u) p. ssl 
 
 ythly, That he was a Prophet like Ifaiah, fpake the Word, and it 
 came to pafs, (w). ( „) p 6j> 6S 
 
 Zthly, That he faw a Pool of Blood, and a Channel of Blood, in 
 the Town o£ Lichjield ■, (x) when there was not a drop of Blood, (*1 p. ^3. 
 
 (j) As mort 
 the 
 
 of Fox is a better Book than the Bible ; and, that George Fox as well Part ad. 
 as Simon Magus, was fome great Man, even the Power of God-, (~j(*)See journal, 
 and thereupon gave him Divine Attributes due only to Chrift, which ^,'Iel- fheZ't- 
 Whitehead 'their drudge, to help them at a dead lift, was fore'd xo tt r M. * 
 bring in his Innuendo's, to fet forth the intents of Coale , Eceles, t &c. + imucmcy «• 
 
 gainfl Envy, 
 &C. p. 18. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
B° 
 
 The Pilgrims Progrejl 
 
 t Judgment 
 fixed, Sec. 
 
 P-i33- 2 +3- 
 * A fiber Ex- 
 
 foft. &C« p. a 
 
 Primitive 
 Chrijiianity 
 continued, ,8cc. 
 and G. WV. 
 Letter to G. 
 Keith, M.T/J. 
 1698. 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 Shews George Whitehead, &c . their Hypocri/ie. Anfaereth an 
 Qbje&ion, Do not the Quakers maintain their own Poor? 
 Their Uncharity thereby difecvered. 
 
 Reader , 
 
 I Am now upon a frefh, yet a necefTary Subject ^ for as the §>jta- 
 ker Teachers have cry'd down all Proteftant Minifters, as Cove- 
 tous, lovers of filthy Lucre, and thereby raifed their own Fame, 
 as the Prophets of the Lord, called forth from their own Country, 
 and from their Fathers Houfes, from both Riches, Honours and Pre- 
 ferments, to come with their Lives in their Hands, for the good of 
 Souls ; thisNoifelmuftaftfefs, went a great way with me in my 
 young Years, and I know it doth with many : Aid therefore, I 
 think it needful to difcover their deceit in this particular, as well as 
 to fhew, how far they maintain their own Poor ; and, what they 
 mean by thofe Words, THEIR OWN POOR^ for as Hypocrifieis 
 their Mifterium Maximum, lb it requires fome time and Skill to un- 
 fold it •, in order to which, I fhall thus proceed : 
 
 Ob j eft. i. But lay fbme, G. Whitehead printed F. Bugg a conceited 
 Fool, one that cannot write true Englifh, f and alfo of litde Credit ^ 
 * likewiie, that the Author of the S/w/fr in the Grafs, is a necefli- 
 tous, malicious, expulfed Prieft,one who writes for his Bread, a Vil- 
 lain, a venemous obnoxious iculking Vermin, 6>V. with abundance 
 more of the like nature. 
 
 Anfw. F/>/?, As to my felf, tho' I had not that Learning, which I 
 am larisfied my Parents once dehgned, yet I thank God and my Pa- 
 rents, for affording me both a competency of Learning and Judgment 
 to deal with the ^takers, who are not over Learned •, no, not G. W. 
 when he came firit amongft us ; witnefs his Book, Jacob found in a 
 Defert LW, &c. Printed 165^. which I am fure, is ib Foreign from 
 true School Learning, that there is not in the whole Book, one Page 
 good Grammar Engliih, as well as fome part meter Nonfence: Yet 
 I will not call him Fool, nor yet nothing of a Scholar ; for perhaps, 
 he might be then entered in his Accidence : And I will alio grant, 
 that fince that (having leilure enough, and lived with his Feet un- 
 der other Mens Tables, whilft I was occupied in Trade and Worldly 
 Bufineis, ) he has acquired a greater degree of Learning • yet not ib 
 much neither, as always to write true Engliih, as in his Letter to 
 Mr. Archer, is manifeft ; fo that he might have pais'd by my want 
 of Learning, &c 
 
 idly, 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. g i 
 
 2dfy, As to his Reflexion on my Credit,when I came firft amongft * 
 
 the Quakers, I had fufficient to live upon, and to maintain my felf 
 in the rank I was brought up in •, yea, to give, and not receive : At 
 id Years old, I had by my Grandfather an Annuity given me of 6 I. 
 per Annum, until I was 2 1 Years old, and then Thirty Pounds per 
 Annum, befides what my Father gave me ; and tho' I have met with 
 many Lofles, and that in divers Kinds, yet I thank God, who hath 
 hitherto inabled me, to maintain my Poft, and to defend my Faith 
 and Chriftian Reputation, againft the malicious Attempts of G. 
 Whitehead, and his Confederates ; befides, G. Whitehead might have 
 forborn, fince moft of my Loifes have been by the Quakers, having 
 had eighr or nine break in my Debt, fbme paying nothing, fbme pay- 
 ing 5 s. in the pound, lbme 2 s. 6 d. in the pound, f I will mention + Viz. B*rf 
 one more, namely Tho. flumftead, CBrother to Francis ?/umftead,^'^°° M 
 at the Crofs-Saws in the Minoriet, London,'} and ftill an Eminent f ince , for 1 8/. 
 Quaker living in Ireland, but no Conference he makes of paying me •, I had but 4.5 '• 
 and that it may appear true, I will recite the Note I have ftill under 
 his Hand, viz. 
 
 May 12.1696. Reckpn'd with Francis Bugg <?/Milden-Hall, 
 and all Accounts being then cleared, there rejis due to Fran- 
 cis Bugg Sixteen Pounds 5 FourPounds whereof is to be paid 
 to him fix Months after the Date hereof, and the Twelve 
 Pounds remainder, not exceeding Four Tears. Mitnefs my 
 Hand the Day abovefaid, 
 
 Tho. Plumftead. 
 
 However, he never had the Honefty nor Confidence to pay one 
 Penny of it,which is now Inter eft and Principle between 30 and 40 /. 
 and greater Sums than this, and of as Eminent Qiiakers, I can men- 
 tion, if need be : But I underftand the World fb well, as not to 
 makethefe things the Subject of my Difcourfe ; nor did I ever men- 
 tion any fuch thing in Print, only G. W. gives now occafion for it. 
 
 3<//y, As to the Author of the Snake in the Grafs, &c. I am fen- 
 fible G. FT. does asmuchabufe him, (and indeed, what Opponent 
 ever had G. W. that he did not abufe < ) However, he has been, and 
 ftill is a Gentleman, a Man of great Learning and Piety, and cloath'- 
 ed with Zeal as with a Garment, for the Chriftian Religion,and well 
 accompliihed every way to difplay the Errours of the Quakers -, and 
 is preparing an Anfwer to G. Whitehead, wherein he (I believe) will 
 trace him ftep by ftep, in all his crooked and by-paths. 
 
 But, G. Whitehead, I have not done with you yet ; you tell us, in 
 the Hiftory of your Call to the Miniftry, faying, ' The Lord hath 
 \ called me from my Native Country, and from my Father's Ho h 
 
 c ind 
 
, t The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 t Jicob found c and from outward Riches, and the Honour of the World, f Wc. I 
 A » Defcrt- do well remember, that when I came firft amongft you, this was 
 Land, &c. a g reat p art of your Cant ; as if you had been fome Lord's Sons, yea, 
 p " *' Men of Breeding, Riches and Honour, and left all for the fake of 
 
 Souls •, when alas ! upon a ftrid Enquiry (of which I have not been 
 wanting.) I find you in this, as well as in almoft every thing elfe, 
 horrible Deceivers •, for you left your poor Country for a Richer,and 
 like Torkfhire Hoftleis, are oblerved feldom or never to return thither 
 again. You came from Penury to Plenty, from Labour and Toil , to 
 Eafe and Pleafure ; you came from your Father's poor Cottage,which 
 I have been told by them that faw it, that it is not worth 50 j-. to 
 Houfes worth 500 /. (a good Exchange, believe me •, ) and you were 
 fo far from being pofllls d with outward Riches, that you came a 
 poor Boy on Foot, and liv'd upon Alms amongft us, fometimes a 
 Month here, fix Weeks there, more oriels, as you could find En- 
 tertainment ; the mean time, improving that little Learning you had, 
 as well as to inftrutt the Children in the Family. But George, thou 
 left thy Honour roo •, how came that to pafs ? What Worldly Ho- 
 nour wert thou endued with » Was it to carry a Letter to a great 
 Perfon fometimes,for a piece of Victuals ? Very well,I think that is as 
 much as ever Cduring thy Dwelling in thy own Country,] thou didft 
 arrive to ; and for this, in time, thou hadft the Honour to fend thy 
 Servant,and ride thy felfonHorfe-back,withaLW<?/7 Linning-Draper 
 Btnj.sintnbus. riding before thee ; and John Kent , worth fome Thouiands,(f or ought 
 I know,) riding behind thee, carrying thy Portmantle, and thy felf 
 George in the middle, like fome Peer. Thus George, inftead of lea- 
 piShire of Qua- ving thy Riches, thy Honour, Qfc. thou left thy Penury and Con- 
 k"/"» d ™™> tempt; and by Deceit, like thy Brother Sam. Cater, who pretended 
 (fti/t'at' fi e lbffered 20/. when he fuffered not a Groat; but by that pre- 
 large. rence, got 10 /. clear into Pocket. But HARK George, I find you 
 
 lb deceitful, that I fear thou haft laid a Foundation, in this thy 
 Jacob found in a Dcfert Land, (and with defign too,) to have thy 
 Friends after thy Deceafe, when they collect thy Works, to magnifie 
 thy CalltothyMiniftry, out of thy Father's Country, for the fake 
 of Souls-, when alas! it was for filthy Lucre-lake, in leaving thy 
 outward Riches, when alas! it was to get Riches and Honour. 
 
 Objdf. 2. But may fome fay, What, will the Quaker s give fuch 
 notorious Accounts of their Call to their Miniftry? And are they 
 generally of fuch a mean Abftra£L and yet lb advanced ? Where is 
 the Self 'Denial they fb often boaft of? And why do they debafe the 
 Clergy, as a Tribe of Covetous Worldly Teachers ? Since,if others 
 be like W hst chrdd, none exceed the §>iiakcr Teachers in Worldly- 
 mindednels. 
 
 Anjiv. Firft, Well ; to Anfwer this Objection, take G. W. for 
 one inftance. 
 
 idly, 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifKanity. 3 3 
 
 2dly, Sam. Cater, who was a poor Journey -Man Capenter, and 
 when he led James Nay/or s Horfe into Brijiol, crying, Hoftnnah to 
 to the Son of David, and put in Priibn, he was well acquainted with ' 
 
 Vermin, Rags and Penury ; however, 'tis believ'd he is worth now, 
 befides Portioning out his Children, fbrae Hundreds. 
 
 jdly, John Kifborn, another Journey -Man Carpenter, as poor as 
 either Whitehead or Cater, when they firft fet up for Speakers, now 
 a Wealthy Man. 
 
 $thly, William Bingfy, a poor Taylor, wrought for 4 d. or 6 d. 
 a day in the North, with Tho.Denifon, or others, now a rich Man. 
 
 yhly, Samuel 'Wdlingfcild, a Glazier formerly •, but fince, avail: 
 rich Draper in London. 
 
 6thly, Tho. Green y aMafon, or Bricklayer ; now a Man worth 
 many Thoufands. 
 
 ythly, George Fox, a poor Journey-man Shoe-maker, died worth 
 abundance, andliv'din as much Plenty as moft Knights in England. 
 
 %th1y, Stephen Crifp, formerly a poor Weaver, but died very rich. 
 
 I have known moft of thefe eight Perfons near 30 years, lbme lon- 
 ger , and fetting the Glazier and Mafon afide, which pombly might 
 make up jointly 100/. if need were-, but the other Six, Ido verily 
 believe, was not all worth 100/. unlets they had fold their Axes, 
 Saws, Thimble and Needles, Beds,Stools,Shuttle and Awl : But fuch 
 is the Art of their Preaching, how much foeverthey decry Gifts and 
 Rewards in others ; that put what G. Fox and Steph. Crifp died 
 worth, to what the other Six now living Cfor ought I know,] toge- 
 ther, and by the moft modeft Account that I can get, together with 
 my own Eftimation, their Eftates thus got by Preaching, is not fo 
 little as Twenty thoufand Pounds, but fome think nearer Thirty 
 thoufand Pounds. Now then, I dare engage to produce 500 Clergy- 
 men, whofe Fathers were Men of Eftates, who brought them up at 
 Schools and Colledges with great Expence and Charge -, and that, 
 fince they came into the World, have been frugal Men, and liv'd as 
 many Years in their Office of Preaching, and yet have not advanc'd 
 their Fortunes to this degree : And yet to behold how their Books are A brief Dtfce- 
 fill'd with reproachful Language as well as their Sermons, againft ™ ; r<'/' , '* r «- 
 the Clergy, as a Tribe of mercenary Hirelings,Lovers of filthy Lucre ^ d t fi'* tt * 
 Followers of Balaam forReward ; ieeking their Ga in from their Quar- s/p/io!' ? ' 
 ter, greedy Doggs, Babilons Merchants, covetous Devils, Thieves, 
 Robbers : ' Yea, lays W. Penn, t ' And whilft the idle Gor.nondizing + 7& Guide 
 ' Priefts of 'England, run away with above 150000 /. a Year, under ™>pk>',?*8- 
 ' pretence of being God's Minifters; and that no fort of People have 
 c been lb univerfally thro' Ages, the very Bane of Soul and Body to 
 ' the Univerle, as that abominable Tribe ; for whom, the Theatre of 
 'Gods moft dreadful Vengeance is referved, to a£t their Eternal 
 ' Tragedy upon, &c And in the fame Page, he tells us, that the 
 
 F falfe 
 
3 4 The Pilgrim's Progrefi> y 
 
 fulfe Chriftian^ re more intolerable 
 
 j , ,;, ro , than He<u arks and Tictw, fay ii qual Converfation of 
 
 ^QuakersnT? thole Infidels, lhould make both Prieft and People blufh, f. 
 
 But Mr. Cliipham the Minifter, againft vvliom W. Venn writ that 
 
 tAj'i, 3*>#-8ook, lays, f ' It's a fooliih thing to flatter the Vapijls* Soa/iiaxi 
 ' and ^.'.'/uvj-^vith the Hopes of Salvation : Upon which,Mr. Venn 
 in his wonted carreer, firft condemns the Clergy, then vindicates the 
 SeciMdns; his Words are thefe, [ If [Vap. Sarin. Quakr\ be dtfe- 
 ' ftive, they owe it to the idle, lying, covetous, ignorant, and murde- 
 c ring Spirit and Practice of the Priefts, who's Intercft it has ever 
 ' been to enflave and obfeurethe Peoples Underftanding-, — it's not 
 L my Bufinels to Apologize for Papifts : As for the Spcinian^ I know 
 ' him to have Wit and Learning enough •, - — his Exemplary Life, 
 c and Grave Deportment, I mult acknowledge to be very fiiigular ; 
 c and ifhisCaufe receive no greater Foil than this Perfon's barcRe- 
 ,, '-prbaches, the difcreet World will fooneracquieiccintheftronger 
 
 Lf«f/;/ Sod-* 'Arguments of 'Sodnus, and his quaint Adherents, f. 
 
 mans. ' Object. 3. But may fome object. If the Quaker Teachers be fuch 
 
 thrilcy Men, are they alio charitable Men ; We have heard, the 
 Quaker s maintain their own Poor. 
 
 Anf™. I do not know many of their Teachers now, having been fb 
 long from them-, but fuch of them as I do now know, and formerly 
 have known, they were a fort of mercenary poor Men in their fir ft 
 Rife-, (lbme few excepted,) but very uncharitable in their Language ; 
 the World never produced the like fince Xoalh Flood; and I know 
 not, nor never did, that the Minifters of that People were ever given 
 to Hofpitality ; but what they got, commonly they held faft, and 
 befide, ungrateful to their Benefactors. I remember, I mer one of 
 
 Yjtbq Kilfom. them in U>pdon^\ fometime fince, and he was fo proud, being now 
 grown Rich, that he would not fpeaktome, altho' I have entertain d 
 him and his Horle, yea, and Companion too, at my Houfe divers 
 times, fbmetimes a Week together-, yea, when he has been thin, and 
 thread-bare, I have taken him into my Shop,and at my own Charge 
 have cloathed him -, f will not fay what I have done to others, both 
 in Money and Cloathing-, but thus much I will lay, that 'tis the 
 chargeableft Miniftry this day mEnsJand, to fome Particulars : For 
 is Mr. Croefe well obferves, they range all rhe Nation round, and 
 come like Mice uncall d for, and like Hies anient for -, and both for 
 il Hori'es. Themfelves, and their Companions, fall upon their 
 Provifion, Oars, Hay, t?V. inibmuch that lean fay, the Miniftry of 
 the £>jukers has coft me as much in three Months time, nay, much 
 more, than the publick Miniftry have coft me this fifteen Years. 
 
 But, as to their Hofpitality and Charity, I lever met with any of 
 it •, I remember, about 20 Years fince, my Wife had a mind to lee 
 London^ and I went with her to vifit Tbo. Green^ who as well as ma- 
 ny 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 3 5 
 
 ny others of them, made my Houfe his Home when in our Country, Brothers and 
 
 yet he never invited me and my Wife to a Meal •, nay, his own Kin- Sifihs. . 
 
 dred that have come to Vifit him out of Nortbamptpnjhire, have 
 
 fcarce eat and drank ar his Houfe ; but, which is ft ill worfe, for I 
 
 can now fpare none, where a Difcovery may be made of this falfe 
 
 Miniftry and deluding Teachers; I fay worle, for his own Brother 
 
 William Greeny who once was a chief Speaker amongft them ; but 
 
 poor Man! he was a wet Quaker, and they put him by Preaching; 
 
 the Man Married, grew Poor ■, and notwithftanding his Brother * T u newjudg- 
 
 Thomas Green was vaftly Rich, and Application made to him time ed, he u north 
 
 after time, yet he held a deaf Ear fo long, until his Wife was forced 8oo ° '• 
 
 to go to St. Gregorys Parii h for Relief for him, or elfe he might have 
 
 ftarved, f for all his own Brother is worth many Thousands, ttld tha*h% 
 
 I lhall give but one inftance more of this kind, and then tell you m t aB»» Us 
 who are their own Poor, and who they think themfelves obliged to Horfi Liner, 
 maintain, &c. button 
 
 The inftance is , touching Sam. Cater, whofe Father was a poor stem""' 
 Man, went about to fell Wings for three Two-pence, from door to 
 door ; but as you have heard, he by being a Preaching Quaker, is 
 grown Rich : IV ell, he has a Kinfman that lives at our Town, and 
 takes Collection, a Sweep-Chimney •, this poor Man, fbmetimes in 
 the Summer time, will go to JJttleport, f /. e. about eight or ten + whtres. &• 
 Miles, to Vifit his rich Coufin, hisFather's Brothers Son •, but when tetdmtk. 
 he comes there, I have heard him fay, that they will not fb much as 
 let him come in-, I will not fay, but fbmetimes he may have gotten 
 ibmething, but very litde -, no, they have very little Charity to God's 
 Poor, but their own Poor, and fuch as they fo efteem ; and there- 
 upon, look upon themfelves obliged to maintain; are fuch as merit 
 their Charity, by obeying their Doctrine, in Tranfgrelfing the known 
 Laws of the Land, viz. fuch as are Sued and Imprifoned for Ty thes, Sam. Carter'* 
 fuch as met in defiance of the Statute, made 22 of K. CII. Yea, if inftance ferm?. 
 fuch could but make the Feoffees to the Fund at London, believe they 
 didfufter, whether true or falfe, fuch were fupplied : But if any 
 one of their People happen to wear a 4 </.Lace on their Pinner, or pull 
 oft' their Hat to a Magiltrate,or break and violate the Q^aikers I 
 fuch are turned to the Parifh : I know but one poor Quaker in our 
 Town-, it may be, iheisnot foftarth'da Quaker asthefeft. ; it may 
 be, fhe may fay Tiv/ inftead of TbeezxATbqu, or fome fuch frrriil <s * 
 Defeat : Well, tho' fhe be a poor Widow with feveral fmall C 
 dren, and very NecefTitous, yet fhe muft ftaive , if our P.; 
 did not fbmetimes relieve her-, and for this lev en Years, fbeli 
 fhe hath lived in a little Houfe of mine, and the Town pay me her 
 Rent-, no, they onff take notice of their own Poor, viz. fucti as are 
 made Poor thro'-their Obedience to "the Quakers unlawful Laws 
 Laws jf&Vmft-the Laws of the Realm. 
 
 F t I 
 
^4 The Pilgrim's <Progrefs, 
 
 I do not queftion but I have made the Friends angry ; yet, if they 
 ,. take the boldnefs to ftigmatize the Bifhops, Magiftrates and Clergy, 
 
 G W'/ Letter an( i t0 reproach them with what is not true, why may not I tell them 
 'It?' K 8 ' Ch ' of theii Faults ? G. Whitehead wrote lately to G. Keith, i. e. ' I 
 t ihJit teii ■ could further expofe thee to thy Terrour and Shame, f than ever I 
 you, they can- ' have done-, for I have been very fparing towards thee, in compari- 
 mtfeek Re- < fon of thy many Abulcs, Scorn, and Injuries againft me, Vfc. But, 
 sT^'h'/ Prim- ' C i,ncs timidi vehement ins Intrant. 
 
 nil] Part' 2. I iliall conclude this Head in the Words of W. Venn to the Clergy ■, 
 p. 9V and I (hall only turn the Scales, and apply it to the Quaker Teachers, 
 
 jn Auomt of am \ ^ope } t m;l y be ufeful to their Hearers, as well as (hew G. White- 
 'l : ht" 8tc" '' i ' M ' d^tyi h° w injurious, icornful and abufive, the Quakers have 
 p.id.' been to the Clergy, who yet never expofed them to Terrour-, but I 
 
 thank God, England is not Penjilvania , where the Quakers, tho' 
 they cannot Fine, Whip, Imprifon, and Fight as Quakers, yet they 
 tell you they can as Magiftrates. The Words are thefe, viz. 
 i%e Guidi i Tho' manifold are the Stratagems of Satan, that old Serpent, by 
 mi(i<ik;n,cxz. 'which he does furprize the Immortal Souls of Men, with moftde- 
 ?• 43- ' plorable Woes, yet there is none that proves lb generally effectual 
 
 ' as HYPOCRISIE ■■> it's his Mijierium Maximum, a Study and Em- 
 ' ployment fit for none below the Form of his Arch- Angels ; fiich 
 ' make his archeft Emiflaries,and moft fubtle Meanders, fublime De- 
 ' vils, mafqu'd with a Vizard of Sincerity, palliating themfelves 
 ( from what they really are, by feeming what as really they are not •, 
 c out-fide wafh'd Platters, Wolves in Sheep's Cloathing,infide rotten, 
 + T. G. and o- c but outfide whited Sepulchres ; in fhort, the muddy Senfualift f re- 
 thers knew i fin'd to a counterfeit Fidelity •, and imitation of the Form ofGodli- 
 C l t senLa- ' ne *^> ^ e more unqueftionable to Deceive ; and lecurely to infinuate 
 f//?* if mm ' candid Apprehenfions of his Purpofe, who is the moft impudent de- 
 Atbeift. . c fpiferofhisGod, deftroyer of Souls, contemner of Laws, perver- 
 ' ter of Truth,and Treacherous to the end ■, againft whom, the fharp- 
 c eft Woes are denounced, and Punilhments referved to Eternity : 
 t W. p. apply (■ Now, how the ^takers f have rendered themfelves obnoxious to 
 it to the clergy. c t j ie (jQj-jeQor of a Hypocrite, has been my Bufinefs in this Chap- 
 1 ter, and will be in the enfuing Difcourfe farther to manifeft, &V. 
 
 And thus have I by anfweting thefe three Objections, fhevved the 
 QfaAer Teachers their Speciahs rcgula triplex, by which rhey are 
 governed, viz, Pride, Hypocrifie and Covetoufnefs, in which they 
 all agree, in Cafe, Gender, and Number. I do grant, I have the con- 
 lent of fome worthy Gentlemen in this my Undertaking; I alfo 
 grant, I have met with Difcouragement from ibme others of equal 
 Worth and Merit,who are not lb Apprehenfive of the Danger of their 
 Errours, both reflecting the Church and State*, but no Man hath 
 been privy to, or viewed what I have wrote ; and lb I take it whol- 
 ly upon my felf, as what I think my felf called to. And if G. White- 
 heady 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 37 
 
 bead^ or his Aflbciates, fhould threaten me with Terrour, as they do 
 G. Keitb, fbrhisChriftianTeftirnony againft their vile Errours, I J 
 
 firft let them know, they cannot bring me much lower than they 
 have already done ^ next, that I am as willing to fuffer three Years 
 and four Months Imprifbnment under their Rage and Fury, if God 
 3nd the Government permit them to execute their Fury fo far, as ever 
 I was, to fuller the like Term when amongft them, in Ely and Wif- 
 becb Goal ; and whatever I thought then, and what fatisfa&ion I 
 then had in my Sufferings, I have reafon to believe, I have far more 
 folid reafon for the Caufe I am now upon ; and therefore, I fhall 
 not fpare this painted Harlot, but lay her bare to the View of her 
 Lovers; let her Fret and Fume, Rail and Rage never fo much, for 
 as fhe have dwelt by others, f by falfe Accufations without Mercy, + Viz. the m*- 
 1b fhall I by a true and faithful Teftimony from Matter of Fa£l, deal g'flw, **"**• 
 by her, wirhout all pity or compafrlon : For, why (hould Jezebel^',"* anA p "" 
 be fuftered to feduce the Nation undifcovered ? Why fhould fhe * e ' 
 Dialogue the Bifhops, contemn the Magiftrates, revile the Minifters 
 of the Gofpei, at their own ungodly rate without contradiction? 
 No, let Gog and Magog join together, yet fhall there be War 
 proclaim'd againft them for ever, as long as the Sun and Moon en- 
 dures. 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 Shew the manner of the Quakers Yearly Meetings or General 
 Council ; r»itk the Ufe ofit^ and the Confequences thereof. 
 
 Reader , 
 
 BY way of Introduction obferve, that as I begin my Enterance 
 into the Q/takers Church-Government, with the manner of 
 their ANNIVERSARY SYNOD, fo I fhall compleat the 
 Difcovery thereof in a diftinft Chapter by it felf, touching their 
 Yearly Meetings. For.as all Proceedings in our Courts of Judicature, 
 in our Affizes, General Quarter Seffions, Monthly Meetings of the 
 Juftices of Peace, Commiffioned by his Majefty, are Authorized, 
 and derive their Power from Acts of Parliament ; fo all the Proceed- 
 ings ofMonthly, Quarterly, Six Weeks, and Second-Day Meetings, 
 of the ^takers Government, (which is a Government within the Go- 
 vernment, and which is ftill worfe againft the Government J derive 
 their Power and Authority from their Yearly Meeting, where their 
 A&s are made, their Orders are framed, and their Methods agreed 
 upon, in a Parliamentary Way. And thefe in their Order, I fhall 
 briefly go thro', beginning with their YEARLY MEETING, fhew- 
 
 ing 
 
The Pilgrims Vrogrefi-, 
 
 ing their way and manner,and that part of their Bufinefs which I ft ill 
 remember when I was a Member thereof, and what elfe occur to my 
 Memorv,as well as by the beft Information I can get » and ending with 
 their YEARLY MEETING, fhewing their Doctrine, by which 
 they Influence the Deputies lent from all Parts of £fl£/W/ and Wales, 
 to agree in Council, to maintain their ancient Teftimony, &c. 
 
 As to the manner of their Houfe, and Meeting therein. 
 
 Firft, They are Men chofen, and deputed by all the Quarterly 
 Meetings of the Quakers in England, and Wales \ and lent up to Jjon- 
 don, to iit in Council every Yenticoft, or Whitfon-Week, Annually, 
 as the Reprefentatives of the Body of the People called Quakers ; to 
 which, thete is refort from Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Penjilvam'a, 
 ESft anAWeft Jerfey, Maryland, Long- If and Road, If! and Virginia, 
 Carolina. Yriezland, Antcgo, Mews, Danizick, Germany, Holfleine, 
 t a notable and all other Places where ever they have got footing •, London be- 
 way of jnteUj- jWthfe Quakers Metropolis, as Rome is in hah, where they hold 
 TJflythe their general Rendezvous from all Parts of the' World, tto Nego- 
 We'aknefs of tiate their Affairs, fettle their Orders, confirm as well as makeDe- 
 tvery country crees, erect Canons,Repeal, not verbally, yet virtually, fofar as their 
 MwUasthtir p ow ^ r reaches, all A&s of Parliament which fuit not with their 
 •"see'thts^iftk Light vaiihin, which is the Higher Power, to which, together with 
 chap, the the Body, * abfolute Obedience is required, and Submiilion expe£l- 
 London£flW?,ed, nay decreed; for to the Light (fay they,) all Power in Heaven 
 
 l 6 * 6 ; ~ ., and Earth is committed, f and from whole Sentence there lyes no 
 tjof. Coal. . - , ' 
 
 Works p. O'". -fippCJu 
 
 Smhh'i Pim- Secondly, As to their Convocation-Houfe, it is fcituate, and being 
 mtr, p. 1 3. j n f) / jte heart Court in Grace-church-j\rcct. London, where there is 
 sry large Room four fquare, with a very large Table, which isco- 
 1 in Convocation-time, with a curious Green Carpet; about 
 which, may fit forty or fifty of the principal Men; their Prefident 
 being their Li£bt art thin, which is to fpeak thro' fbmeor other infal- 
 libly, and fb'to. be-takeri, Ffc. and roundabout, there are Seats fet 
 one above another, like the Houfe of Commons, where may convene 
 about Six hundred ; and their^peaker being below, they can all 
 him, and he them, with eafe and delight. 
 
 Thirdly, V* hen this is done (the Doors being well lieu red, /. nei- 
 ther lock'd and barrel, or elfe 2 or 3 lufty Fellows to keep Guard,) 
 then the Clerk opens his Baggs. and take.- out hisBoi 
 black Roll, and calls over all the Quarterly 
 Wales, and the Names of the Deputies; careful 't 
 
 a Kings 10.19. nonef be wanting, as Jehu was, who laid, Call unto m 
 pbets ^'Baal, let none be want ing. 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriflianity. 3 9 
 
 This done, they proceed to examine, firft the State of their own 
 Affairs, next, that of the Nation, which any way aftecls them. ^ 
 
 Firft, As to their own Church Affairs-, it is to lee that none 
 Preach contrary to their ancient Teftimony ; if they do, they Excom- 
 municate them, and expel them out of their Unity, as in the Cafe of 
 c,e Keith; which, in regard it is made foPublickby feveral 
 printed Books, particularly his three Narratives, I think I am the 
 leis concerned to be particular on that Head ; as, Firft^To lhew how 
 they Summoned him to appear before them day after day, I think 
 10 or 12 days together, where G. Keith as readily appeared, as Lu- 
 ther did at Worms j f and when they could not make him truckle, + ■ ■ - .., WM 
 but that he manfully ftood his Poft, they then caft him out as a <7 / ?>,<.<./• need 
 Troubler of their Ffraei, and called him Apoftate, one feperated /«:*'>; fir 
 from the holy Fellowship of the Church of Chrift, and one not fit to ^^°j n - is 
 Preach and Pray in their Meetings, in that unreconciled Eftate, an- "J/j","/™" t» 
 til by a publick and hearty Acknowledgement of his Oftence,and Con- the pntijidnt 
 demnation of himielf therefore, he return to Mother Church, &c. 1 ■'■ veft,* kiT 
 as by the Words of his Excommunication,bearing Date May 1 7. 1 69^. £ ' : "'' s '^ n - 
 may more fully appear. Thus then is their boldnels manifeft, Firft, 
 In preiurning to Summons the King's Subjects to appear before them ; 
 and then to interrogate them, fentence and condemn them ; yea, and 
 that too, for holding no other Articles of the Chriftian Faith, than 
 what every Orthodox Church holds. Secondly, That he is an Apoftate, 
 whilftno matter ofEvilFacl, or falfe Doclrine, they could lay to 
 his Charge ; I fay, this is bold in Facf. 
 
 I will not deny, but that Diifenters have fometimes admonifhed 
 fcandalous Walkers ; and if they have perliftcd therein, to the Ican- 
 dal of their Church-Society, rejected them, &V. But I deny that 
 any, whether Presbyterians, Indeptndants or Baptifts, ever yet took 
 upon them to call a General Council, and rhen, and there aflumean 
 Authority to call before them the King's Subjects, examine, try and 
 judge them Apoftates, for differing from them in matter of Faith 
 and Do£trine, elpecially when G. Keith held no other Articles of the 
 Chriftian Faith, than all found Proteftants hold. This then is a Fi- 
 gure of their Church Government, refpeding the Doftrinal Part 
 thereof 
 
 Next, As to their Interfeting with the Government, and their cal- 
 ling in queftion A£rs of Parliament, and abiblving their Hearers from 
 their Obedience to them ; if this can be made appear, I think 'tis 
 worth noticing, the dangerous Confequences thereof are fo manv^tJ^, ^'" 7 ' 
 and fo pernicious. And, &lf' 
 
 THEREFORE obferve, what TV. Rogers wrote, in Anfwer to zr\f r07l , the wpt>- 
 Objection, Whether it were lawful or no, to pay Tythes, f- if the ft*te, in five 
 Supream Powers command it I 69V. Varts - part 3l 
 
 Mf K ' Printed 1680, 
 
4© 
 
 The Pilgrims Progrefi, 
 
 Afifw. c We are fo far from condemning all thole who freely pay 
 them, (and not by conftraintj that we look upon it the Duty of 
 all profeiling Chriftianity, to contribute towards the outward 
 maintainance of inch whom they ufually hear, and account to be 
 the true Minifters of Chrift, in cafe they have need •, and if the 
 Charity of any fhould be fuch, as to bcftow upon them one fifth 
 part inftead of a tenth, fir be it from us to condemn it, Vfc. 
 
 t An Antidote 
 ugainfithe in- 
 fection of W. 
 Roger'/ Book, 
 f. 78- 
 
 * This Proof of 
 KlwoodV out 
 0/ 1 John 4. 3. 
 is like many of 
 their Proofs ; 
 for there is not 
 a word of 
 Tythes, or that 
 it ii a mark of 
 Antich'ifl to 
 pay Tythe:. 
 
 \ See what a 
 Jad thing it is 
 to break one of 
 Fox'/ Com- 
 mandments. 
 
 * Poflibly the 
 poor Men had 
 nit fern G. 
 FoxV Com- 
 mandments, at 
 leajl not well 
 con them. 
 
 This Book did fo ftartle the Foxonian Quakers, that Tbo. EUvoood, 
 one of their beft Tools, wrote an Anfwer to it ; and fearfully com- 
 plains of this extenfive Charity of W. Rogers, and the Diflenting 
 Quakers, called Storians for diftinftion, &c. faying, 
 
 ( In this Anfwer (faith Ellwood,\) you difcover an Errour of 
 Judgment, otherwife you would not be fo far from condemning 
 all thofe who pay Tythes freelyasyou fay you are : FOR TRUTH 
 ALLOWS NO PAYMENT OF TITHES AT ALL, UNDER 
 THE NEW COVENANT, BUT CONDEMNS I T: And fo 
 would you alfo, if your Hearts were right in Truth : THEY 
 who PAT TYTHES, do ThtRLIX uphold a legal Ceremony 
 abrogated by Chrift, and THEREBY DENY CHRlSTto be come 
 in theHeih, which IS a MARK of ANTICHRIST, 1 John 4. 3. 
 * However, whether you condemn or approve it, the faithful Fol- 
 lowers of the Lamb fee and diicern this Spirit, the nature of ir, and 
 the end it tends to, which is downright RANTERISM. 
 
 Again, p. 13P. poorT. Ellwood makes a fad Complaint, of fome 
 that had been convinced ten, nay, fome twenty Years, and yet can 
 pay Tythes without any Acknowledgment of Evil therein : f ' Is it 
 1 notfavoury Language, (liys Ellwcod) for fuch to fay, I muft ftay 
 1 until I be convinced ? Can fuch as lee not fuch mani" 
 c faidtobe faithful? tfc 
 
 manifeft Evil, * be 
 
 t Smith's 
 
 J>rimm:r,p.\]. 
 ■jif. Co.i.'s 
 rVtrks, f 03. 
 
 Well, thefe Differences grew high, and very difficult to decide, 
 but in time the matter came up to the Terms of JK Roger's Objecti- 
 on, viz. the SUPREAM POWER, continued the Payment of 
 Tythes, in that very Aft of Parliament by which the Quakers 
 claim their Tollerarion •, and therefore, 'tis worth the while, to fee 
 how the fakers take this very Aft of Parliament, and bring it to 
 their Light, which is (fay they) the higher Power ; all Power in 
 Heaven and Earth being committed to it; f and how they null, 
 make void, and repeal that part of it relating to Tythes, repairs of 
 Churches, &c. viz. fo iar as it concern the Quakers. 
 
 Anno 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 4 1 
 
 Anno Regni Gulielmi 8c Maris Regis &.Regina?, Anglise, 
 Scotia?, Franciae & Hiberniae, primo May 24. 1698. thk 
 Aft pafed the Royal Ajjent. 
 
 Provided always that nothing herein contained^ 308. 
 Jhall be conftrued to exempt any of the Perfons afore- 
 /aid, from paying of Tythes, or other Parochial Du- 
 ties, or any other Duties to the Church or Minifter y 
 nor from any Profecution in any Ecckjiafiical Court, 
 or elfe where , for the fame. 
 
 Well, after much ftrugling between the foxonian Quakers that 
 hold it Antichriftian to pay Tythes, tho' voluntarily paid ; yea, a 
 compleat Denial of Chrift to be come in the Flefh, quoting i John 
 4.3. yea, downright Ranterifm, on the one hand; and the Storian 
 Quakers who held it lawful to pay, if the Supream Power gave it 
 them, nay, not only the Tenth part, but even the Fifth part, if the 
 Party thinks his Minifter want it ; I fay, great Struglings, and Wri- 
 tings, and Difputings, were on both Parts, about this fo nice a Point, 
 and fo neceffary to be decided : Wherefore at a Yearly Meeting 
 heldat London, June 1693. and by the Authority of the fame, it 
 was thus, amongft other things, Ena&ed : 
 
 c And therefore, that all due and godly Care be taken againft the 
 c Grand Oppreffion and Antichriftian Yoke of Ty thes,That our Chri- 
 c ftian Teftimony born, f and greatly fufFered for, be faithfully main- 1 Soft Words, 
 ' tained againft them in all rclpecfs, and againft Steeple-Houfe rates : and kari 
 '-That Friends at all their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, be Nam " mixt ' 
 c reminded to call for the Record of the Sufferings of Friends, to fee 
 ' that they be duly gathered, truly entered and kept; and according- 
 ' ly lent up (to London,) as hath been often" advifud, both of what 
 ' Tythes, £?V. are pretended to be due, and for how long a time, and 
 ' the time when taken ; and by, and for whom, and what Goods are 
 'taken, and the value thereof, as well thole not exceeding, as thofe 
 ' exceeding, the Sums or Quantities demanded, (it being a Suffering 
 1 for both for Truth fake; ) they being in thefe paiticulars found 
 ' defective and imperfecF in divers Counties, which is an obftructi- 
 ' on to the general Record of Friends Suffering : And THEREFORE, 
 c the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, are adviied to take more care 
 ' for the future, that all Friends Sufferings for Truth-lake, may be 
 'brought up (to London) as FULL and COMPLEAT inALLre- 
 'fpefts as POSSIBLE may be. 
 
 G Thus 
 
42, The Pilgrims Progrefi, 
 
 t joumgi, tj 1us Reader, you fee, That this A£t of Parliament being brought 
 
 f 400, "478. tQ t j lc Qu a k ers Light, the Higher Power, it is condemned as a 
 *4 P 2 GRAND Oppreflion, and an ANTICHRISTIAN YOKfc'ofBon- 
 t Thi Anauhy dage, fuitable to the Do&rine of Fox, f R. Pye, * T. Elhcood, and 
 of tht Kant en, Barclay, f. 
 
 *,Vofc, /.. 78, But ftill there is another Claufe in thefaid A£t of Parliament a- 
 139. ' bove-recitedjWhich they take as little notice of as that of Ty theses. 
 
 Provided always, and be it Enabled by the Autho- 
 rity aforefaid, That if any AJfembly of Per fins, dif- 
 fenting from the Church of England, JloaU be had 
 in any Place for Religions Worjhip, with the Doors 
 locked, barr'd, or bolted,during any time offuch Meet- 
 ing together \ all and every juch Per fin or Verfons 
 that /ball come to, and be at Juch Meeting, JhaU not 
 receive any Benefit from this Law, but be liable to all 
 the Pains and Penalties of all the fore faid Laws reci- 
 ted in this A St, for fuch their Meeting, notwith- 
 fianding his taking the Oaths, and his making and 
 fubfcribing the Declaration aforefaid. 
 
 Another inftance I may recite, to mew the Preemption of the 
 QitakerS) in their Yearly Convocations, viz. 
 
 In the xxii of K. Charles II. there was an Aft of Parliament 
 made, Enrituled, An AB to prevent andfupprefs Seditious Con- 
 venticles : In which it was (aid, 
 
 Be it Enabled, &c. That if any Perfon of the 
 Age of SixteenTears, and upward, being a Subjetl 
 of this Realm , at any time after the Tenth day of 
 May next, JhaU be prefent at any jiffembly Conven- 
 ticle, or Meeting,under colour and pretence of any Ex- 
 ercife of Religion, in other manner than according to 
 the Liturgy and Praftice of the Church of England, 
 
 &c. 
 
From Quakerifin to Chriftianity. 45 
 
 &c. at which \ there JhaU be five Per fins or more, Af- 
 fembled together, over and be fides tho/e of the fame • 
 
 Family, &c. fhaU fujfer thofe and thofe rejpetlive 
 Fines, &c. 
 
 Now, tho' it be well known, that the Exercife of the Quakers 
 Religion is not only otherwife than according to the Liturgy, but 
 directly contrary to it, yet all mult be Perfecution that limit them : 
 As firft, the Liturgy teach the Practice of the Ten Commandments, 
 the Lord's Prayer, and Apoftles Creed, which the Quakers have 
 not the leaft Shadow of, either in their Meetings, or in their Fami- 
 lies; the Church Liturgy teach the Sacraments of Baptifm and the 
 Lord's Prayer, f together with Confeffion of Sin, which the Qua-+s« the pi. 
 kers reject as Idolatrous and Superftitious. . #«>•<? of Q^t. 
 
 Well, no looner did this Act take place, and fbme did forbear keri f m < ?■ 94, 
 meeting in this Riotous manner, but their Preachers came thro' the' I0 °" 
 Nation, and gave out their Epiftles or Mandates, commanding, ra- 
 ther than exhorting the People, to meet in great Numbers, in fpite 
 of Law and Law-makers • I receiv'd many Letters to that purpofe, 
 one whereof I may recite, to (hew, how prefumptuous they were 
 in Summoning the King's Subjects to meet and tranfgrefs this Law, 
 which allow'd a moderate Tolleration, confidering how retrograde 
 their Religion runs to all Inftituted Religion. For, there might four 
 meet, "befides thole of the lame Family, and 'tis probable, that ma- 
 ny Families have 12 or 15 in a Family. Here then might have 
 been latisfaction, to fuch as only mean to meet for their more private 
 Edifying, either by Reading or Expounding feme Portion of the Holy 
 Scriptures, and which is Practifed by the ufers of the Church-Litur- 
 gy :, but alas! this was too mean, too low and contemptible, for 
 thefe proud Boafters to fubmit too. The Letter is as followeth, viz. 
 
 This for Jofhua Bangs, f . i pwjofluu 
 
 felt the weight 
 
 Dear Friend, tf>' > Rnur - 
 
 taiumetit, .it 
 
 By this thou may'jl fytotv, that God irillini, Jonathan John- weU as Ben '- 
 fon axd I do intend to be at Milden-hall Meeting the next Firft- ^°Sf * 
 Day, and flail be glad Friends GENERALLY may know there- 
 of, that n>e may have a good LARGE MEETING, / mean, 
 Friends that arc-afar off in the Country. R. S. 
 
 The like I had from John Hubbard, and others, to appoint Meet- 
 ings for George Whitehead^ and others, tho' often therein precaution'd 
 
 G 2 not 
 
44 
 
 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 not to mention the Names of the Speakers ■, no, they mu ft go like 
 diiguis'd Mdb's , and the poor filly Sheep muft fuller for them, 
 and their own Tranfgretiions too -, infomuch, as that in the lols of 
 13500/. by Fines and Diftrefs, our Teachers never loft 50/. where 
 they were Strangers, and they had more wit than to Preach at home 
 where they were known. Well, but as thefe Letters as well as their 
 common Practice, was bottom'd upon an Edict, made at a Yearly 
 Meeting, which both repealed this Law, refpecting the Quakers who 
 adheared to them as the Higher Power, alienated their Obedience 
 from the Magiftrates, and the Laws of the Land : Which Edict, is 
 as followeth, viz. 
 
 Concerning our open Tejl'unony by PublicI^Meetings, in times 
 
 of Sufferings. 
 
 ' That as it hath been our Care and Practice from the Begin- 
 ' ning, that an open Teftimony for the Lord fhould be born, and a 
 ' Publick Standard f for Truth and Righteoulhels 
 c upheld in the Power and Spirit of God, by our 
 ' open and known Meetings againft the Spirit of 
 c Perfecution, that in all Ages hath fought to lay 
 ' wafte God's Heritage ; and that only thro' faith- 
 ' fulnefs, conftancy and patience, Victory hath 
 < been, and is obtained : SO IT IS OUR AT> 
 'VICE and JUDGMENT, That all Friends ga- 
 ' thered in the Name of Jefus, * keep up thole 
 'Publick Teftimonies in their refpe&ive Places, 
 ' and not DECLINE, FORSAKE or REMOVE 
 ' their Publick AlTemblie?, becaufe of Times of 
 ' Sufferings, as WORLDLY, FEARFUL and PO- 
 ' L1TICK Profefibrs have done, becaufe of In- 
 ' formers, and the like Perlecutors : For fuch 
 ' Practices are not confiftent with the Nobility of 
 'the Truth, and therefore not to be owned in the 
 ' Churches of Chrift. 
 
 t High boafling Words ; but the 
 Snake lay in the bottom, i. e. D//5- 
 iedienceto Authority, their Light 
 being the Higher Pever. 
 
 * Meaning their Light, in oppo~ 
 f-tion to the Dotlrine ar.d Practice 
 of the Apo files, and all Chriftian 
 Churches, as veil at againjl the 
 Commands of Jefiu of Nazareth : 
 Go.teach all Nations Baptizing, 
 &:. Do this in remembrance of 
 me, &c When you Pray, fty, 
 Our Father, &c. Forgive us 
 our Sins, for, &c. 
 
 Read Luke u. 14.. Matth. 28. 
 
 19,20. Luke 22. 19. John 1.8. 
 Pjal. 38 18.50.15. 51. 1. 2,3. 
 Jj'a. 64. 6. Lam. 3. 20. Job 7. 20. 
 
 Prim. 20 9. Ecelef. 7. 20. Uehem. 
 
 1.6. 1 Tim. 1. 15. D.vi. 9. 4, j, 
 
 20,23. 
 SeePicl.ofQuak. p.6}, to 70. 
 
 London, the 23 d. 
 of the Third 
 Month, 1*575. 
 
 Subfcribed by, 
 
 G. Whitehead, 
 
 The. Salthoufe, 
 Jo. Burnyeat, 
 
 W. Penir, 
 Alex. Parker, 
 Stephen Crifpe. 
 
 Thus have I given two Inftances, as particular Demonftrations, 
 That as their Books teach, fb their Practice confirm it : That their 
 Light is the Higher Power, to which they require Obedience, con- 
 trary to the Practice of Gods Saints and Servants in allAges^where no- 
 thing 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 4-c 
 
 thing that is finful,and fo againft the writtenWord ofGod is command- 
 ed. Read Matth.z2.21. 1 PV/.2.T3, 14,17. Rom.13. 1,2,3. T/r.3.1. See 
 TindidFs Works, /. e. The Obedience of a Chriftian Man, &c. p. 1 1 r. 
 and compare thefe Holy Sayings with their Practice, unlels where 
 Idolatry or Things finful are commanded, and then 'tis better to obey 
 God than Man ; but this the Quakers could never produce : But as 
 they thus flighted and Trampled upon the Government, fo did their 
 great Apoftle glory ink, laying, He did not beed a Cart-load o/li\:r- 
 rants. Journal, p. 278. 
 
 And now I (hall briefly run through feveral of their other Methods 
 and Ways at their Yearly Meeting, relerving their Doctrinal Part, 
 which fupport and influence them to a diftinct Chapter by it felf 
 
 F/'r/?, They oft refer to their laft Yearly Epiftle, that the Con- 
 tents of it be ferioufly reminded in all Monthly and Quarterly Meet- 
 ings, but not a word of Scripture referred to therein, as their Rub 
 of Faith and Practice. 
 
 idly, Againft that grand Oppreffion and Antichriftian Yoke of 
 Tythes-, yea, Antichriftian in the Law-maker, in the Payer, and in 
 the Receiver. 
 
 $dly, Againft the Paying of Churchwardens Rates, by which 
 we have much trouble in the Country, otherwife things might be 
 eafie ^ but. from this Fountain fpring their Antimagiftratical Practices, 
 
 $tbly, That all their Sufferings -may be brought up to London, in- 
 order for a Martyrology, both full and compleat, that nothing may 
 be wanting, to reproach the Magiftrates, and extol their own Suf- 
 ferings, which they are not already afham'd to fay, are greater and 
 more unjuft than in the Days of Chrift's Apoftles, the ten Perfec- 
 tions, and all the Maflacres, for the Name of Chrift, f tho' many + - » 
 of them are meer Shams, as in the Cafe of Sam. Cater, who pretend- tough's mrh 
 ed and got it Recorded, that he differed 20 /. for Preaching at Pba- p. »7 3. 
 kenbam in Norfolk, altho' he never did for that Meeting flitter a 
 Groat; yet for that pretence, had 10/. fent him out of their London 
 Exchequer, or Fund : And yet this is not the whole of this Grand 
 Cheat ; but nine Years after he Printed a Book, * wherein he \a.&.* The Lamm* 
 the Impudence ftill to complain of Sir Cbriftopher Coltborfs Inju-* / ' o ?' l / f" 
 ftice and Perfecution, concealing his having his Goods again, and p rf f?"\y c * 
 10/. to boot : And by this their Chronicles, they fo much boaft of, ' 
 t may be meafured. \ r» m en. 
 
 yoly, Againft their People ufing Guns in their Ships -, which in »«'* appears-, 
 1693. when this Advice was given, His Majefty had need of fuchas^""',^/^ 
 would Fight, ©V. But tho' the Quakers in Fenfilvania can Fight as "^sbZi- 
 Magiftrates, yet they cannot Fight as Quakers ; and 'tis not time yet Sufferings ? 
 to throw ohYtheir Coats of Quakerifm, and put on the Robes ofMa- 
 giftracy, 
 
46 The Pilgrim's Progrefs, 
 
 6thly, To receive Applications, Epiftles, and Emba flies, from the 
 Foreign Parts beyond the Seas, mentioned in the former part of this 
 Chapter, and grant them Orders, EdiQs and Laws, for the gover- 
 ning themielves in fubie&ion to their Light, the Higher Power, efpe- 
 cially when met in a Body, as the Epiftle, Anno 1660. before reci- 
 ted fhew. 
 
 ytb/y, To refer the Sufferings of their own Poor, /'. e. fuch as by 
 breaking the Laws, lying in Goal for Non-payment of Tythes, £fV. 
 Kay, F"^',Forotherwife, tho' their own Brothers, they may ftarve e ; re they'll 
 «f"ThoE\i- e ta ^ e anv . cnar i ta ^' c notice of them •, or if a Woman that wears a 
 wood°'n>£o Lace of a Groat on her Head, or a Man that puts off his Hat ; no, 
 fufered his Fa- many of thefe are God's Poor, but the Quakers Poor are of another 
 'ha- to go from ^ ons anc i t j ie y having merited the Quakers Kindnefs, by obeying 
 
 Tohn klucVT their Laws : Thefe are P lentifull y awarded •, fo that what they 
 Relatin it. ' "11 their Unity, is rather a Confederacy, which ought to be noticed. 
 Sth/y, They take care, that all their erronious Books may be dif 
 perfed by all their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, tor the Ipread- 
 ing of Truth, but not a word ofdifperfing the Bible-, however, it 
 may ferve for a Motive to our Clergy, for to take care toDifperfe 
 fuch Books as difcover the Q/takers Errours and Hypocrifies ; the 
 neglecf of it has been very hurtful. 
 
 ptb/y, They every Year order a Committee to bechofen, to view 
 the Accounts, and to examine the* State of their Calh, /'. e. the Qua- 
 kers Exchequer, which fome fay, now run over : They likewife 
 nominate their Feoftees for the time being, who by the Order of their 
 Superiors, give out fbmetimes 5 /. fometimes 1 o /. fometimes 20 /. 
 at a time to their Preachers \ and fuch as have been ruind for Non- 
 payment of Tythes, and the like, the Feoftees for Anno 1693. were 
 IV. ( Vouch) J. Staploe, W. Mde'ketJV. Chandler , IV. Beech, and Natb. 
 Alar /is. 
 
 jotbly, They give their Deputies frefh Orders, to bring (or fend) 
 up the Sum-Total of each County's Collection, for the relief of their 
 Suiteting-Friends, viz. fuch as have fuftered againft Tythes, &c. 
 that fuch as Preach up G. Fox's Commandments, Orders and Pre- 
 cepts, may not lofe their Reward. 
 
 1 itbly, George Yox had a Saying in their Yearly Meeting, worth 
 noting ■ Penfilvania had Experience of it •, and when they get Pow- 
 er, England may alio, viz. I do not like (foid Fox,,) the Words 
 spirit of the LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE, for there is no Liberty out of the 
 {J''''"' Power: What ! Liberty to the Kpifcopals ; no. What! Liberty 
 xhmitmrki* rnc Presbyter ; no. What! Liberty to the Independant* no. 
 p. 1 18, 129. ' What ! Libert}' to the Baptift ; no. No Liberty out of the Truth. 
 Primed 169s- And for further Evidence, that they are againft Liberty of Con- 
 ou 'h 1 B rr.V fc" ience 3 ^- Hubberthorn and Edw. Burroughs, Men of note amongft 
 p. 6k. j P.7W-.' them-, in an Anfwerto the Baptifts Declaration, wherein they did 
 ed tsfg declare 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 47 
 
 declare themfelves againft an univerfal Tolleration of all Mifcar- 
 riages, whether in things Civil or Religious -, nor are we for tolle- 
 rating Popery, nor fuch as {peak contemptuoufly of our Lord Jefus , 
 Chrift,nor any that deny the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God ; 
 and yet we are not againft tollerating Epifcopacy, Presbytery, or any 
 ftinted Form, 0V. Now hear thefe two Eminent Do£lors of the 
 Quakers Anfwer. f ' What confufion is here ! you will not tollerate + r # Huber- 
 * Popery, nor any that Worfhip a falfe God, nor that fpeak contem- thorn v Works, 
 1 ptuoully and reproachfully of our Lord Jefus Chrift, nor that deny P- " 8 - 
 ' the Holy Sciiptures to be the Word of God ; and yet you are not roiThw'fr 
 'againft tollerating Epifcopacy, Presbytery, or any other ftinted p.^s! " '* 
 'Form: Why will you not tollerate Popery as well as Epifcopacy ? 
 ' And why will you tollerate the Book of Common Prayer amongft the 
 'Epifcopals, and not the Mafs-Book amongft the Papifts, feeing the 
 c Mais was the fubftance out of which the Common-Prayer was ex- 
 ( tracked i Here is nothing but partiality, to tollerate one thing and 
 ' not another of the fame kind, &e. Thus then does it appear, what 
 Friends the Quakers are to Liberty of Conference, and how kind they 
 were to Epifcopacy, in 16^9. and they are' the fameftill ; they tell 
 you, they are not chang'd , and you may believe them, fince they 
 have given fuch a plain D'emonftration thereof in Venfilvania, where 
 they have both Fined, Whip'd, and Imprifon'd George Keith, and 
 others, for holding the fame Faith, and Preaching the fame Faith 
 that the Epif copalians hold and teach. 
 
 1 2tbly, and Laflty, And what I have heard with my Ears, That 
 George Fox hath exhorted this Meeting, that when they return to 
 their refpe&ive Habitations, that fuch in each County as had moft 
 intereft,and thereby the moft influence on the Mem- 
 bers of the Houfe of Commons, fhould refort to ., , , .. „ r ■ , 
 
 , , , , c^AJTjr •«*"« w " en at ™ e Houfe, they 
 
 them, and work upon them, t7f. And I do fay,- fit u by aU the Interefl th \ y w ^ 
 
 that the whole twelve Inftances I have named, are make frejh suits ; they have their 
 
 not more Political than this one; for ten to one, if Emijfaries wait continually, to fee 
 
 ibme Quaker be not himfelf, or fome of his Kin- *?? c ° m " "" ; '** f ?"'"'* " 
 
 , , r ii-i i_ » j 1 c ( " etr ■rfnl-soers : and a Fund or Com- 
 
 dred, fome way related, either to the Members of mo „ Bank t0 maintai „ „,/. „ m 
 Parliament to ferve for that County or Burrough, or like them but the Jtfmu. 
 to fome of his Friends \ or ten to one, if fome Qua- 
 kers do not deal with him, or fome near him, or is Tenant to him, 
 or fome of his Friends-, if then, fome one, or any of thefe, or all con- 
 cur, then there is Application made to him time after time ; and 
 moft Englifh Gentlemen are apt to be kind, and they not knowing the 
 Craft and Subtilty ■, befides, the Defign of this People are apt to tell 
 them, Well, if I can do you any good, confiftent with a National 
 Good, I fhall not be againft it: And if they meet one that is refo- 
 lute, and from a knowledge of their erroneous Principles, that they 
 are Enemies, and implacable ones too, to all inftituted Religion ■, 
 
 then 
 
4 8 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 then they will fawn upon him, and flatter him, fas they did ColL 
 
 JurJ/,) and defire him to ftand Neuter, & y r. hut, thanks be to 
 
 God, the Parliament and whole Nation, begin to fee them, and grow 
 
 every day more fenfible ofthe tendency of their pernicious Principles. 
 
 V 
 
 Rom.13. 1,1,3. 
 
 Some Inferences from the Seventh Chapter. 
 
 'S it fo, that the gjiakers hold their Anniverfary Synods, and Ge- 
 . neral Councils, thus Publickly in the View of the Nation, with- 
 out the King's Letters of Licenfe, or Infpe£tion, or Pattent, which 
 is more than the Biihops ofthe Eftablilh'd Church have power to do > 
 How then does it concern the Legiflative Power, to take notice of it, 
 (;( .that in time they may prevent the danger of it ? Is it lb, that their 
 Tp'et'.'i.'i]'. 3 Light is the Higher Power, to which every Soul is to be fubje£t, and 
 nt. 3.1. all Laws vail ? Let us then begin to remember, how zealous our 
 Kings and Parliaments have been, ever fince the Reformation, againft 
 fuch as adhered to a Power fuperior to the King, Lords and Com- 
 mons, which our Protectant Divines have held to be the Higher 
 Powers,and which we are commanded (by the Apoftles)to fubmit our 
 feives. Now any People that adhere to a Foreign Power to be Su- 
 pream in England, belides and above that of KIA'G, LORDS and 
 COMMONS)(who under God, are the Higher Powers,) are to be fu- 
 fpe&ed to undermine the Government, whether thev mean the POPE 
 of ROME) or the QUAKER LIGHT in their BODY AlTembled in 
 COL T A r C/L, (the latter being the raoft dangerous, becaufe not lb ob- 
 vious •, ) and thereupon ought to be prevented from holding fuch 
 Councils, with Doors lock'd, barrd, or by a guard of Men fecured, 
 that none can go in, to obferve their Tranfa'ttions : Again, is it 16, 
 that the Quakers are againft Liberty of Confcience, and that they 
 tXia (ce ,;,.,> would'as freely tollerate Popery as Epifcopacy? f iffc. What rea- 
 Antimt Tefti- fon is there then, for the Q/a.fars to expett, much lefs to prefume, 
 ■many in R. to take the Liberty, (under an Epifcopal Government,) to hold thefe 
 Hub. «'■»•*/, Convocations without Licenle, which no other DilTenters eithet ask, 
 itfyg 9 Am<> delire, or pretend to ; nay, what the Biihops themfelves, of them- 
 lelves, without the King's Licenfe, can do? 
 
 Z.ukt i 17. 
 
 For notoing U Secret*, that fkall net be made manifcfl \ neither 
 any thing hid, that Jhall not be made knoven, and come abroad. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriflianity. 49 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 Skews the Executive part of the Quakers Laws and Government, 
 in their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings. 
 
 IJoin the life and Service of their Monthly and Quarterly Meet 
 ings together, for Brevity-fake ; as alio, becaule they are much 
 the fame in all refpe£ts, only the Monthly inferior to the Quar- 
 terly ; becaufe in one County, there may be three or four Monthly 
 Meetings, much like Juftices Monthly Meetings, where the Party 
 offending need not be concluded, but entering his Recognizance to 
 appear at the Quarter Seffions, he may have a more full hearing -, 
 fo it is with the Quaker s^ he may Appeal from the Monthly to the 
 Quarterly Meeting : This I know very well, not barely becaufe I 
 was Clerk in thefe Meetings many Years, but alfo during my Con- 
 troverfy with Sam. Carer-, I Summon'd him, firft, to the Monthly 
 Meeting-, and when Ifoundnojuftice, I Appeald from that to the 
 Quarterly, and indeed from the Quarterly to the Yearly ■, and (b 
 twice or thrice round, as I remember : For it was the greateft Try- 
 al that ever was amongft them, in regard it ftruck at the Miniftry, 
 viz. WHETHER THEY OUGHT NOT TO TELL THEIR 
 NAMES AND HABITATIONS, AND THEREBY SET THEM- 
 SELVES IN ALIKE SUFFERING CAPACI1T WITH THE 
 HEARERS, f Vfc. fince they advifed us to be va- 
 liant, and give up all > 0c. f -* W* •'» my Bo»*, The 
 
 But to the matter ■ Painted Harlot both Stript and 
 
 When we came together, which is commonly J&Zn^t£&:. 
 about 9 or 10 a Clock, then we fate a while toge- 
 
 gether Silent, unlefs we have a Teacher with us, . 
 
 and then it may be, we may have a Ihort Exhorta- . ]•' e - , Fo *'' c ' mf>!a »f'»"' t f, 
 
 i 1 • t- n • r- i ana tome other thmjrs , which in the 
 
 tion, to keep to our annent Teftimony •, * fo then next ch^tery^UhLr of. 
 the Doors being fecured, they proceed after this 
 manner: The Clerk calling over the Meeting, I mean the particu- 
 lar Meetings of every Town, which poll ibly may be forty Towns, 
 more oriels, viz. 
 
 Clerk. Come Friends, How is it as to your Town ofLitf/eport ? 
 
 A. and B. [For there is to be two appear from every Town,] 
 Things are pretty well with us, only D. E. is married with a Prieft. 
 
 Meeting, Aye, How came that to pals ? Did vou not perceive 
 his Relapie from the Truth, and the Order of it, till he madefuch 
 a Revolt as to become an Apoftate ■ 
 
 A. B. Truly, we found he declin'd; and feme Friends in our 
 Townfpoketohim, and warn'd him of the Danger of it; but all - 
 would not do. H Meeting. 
 
jo I he Pilgrim's Progrejl, 
 
 Meeting* Well, let lome body be ordered to go to him, and ad- 
 t ;. e. nthm ; "loniih him ; if he Repent, and acknowledge his Fault, and confefs 
 
 for if he con-' tO Truth, f. 
 
 frfi hu Fault Clerk. How is it at your Town of Milden-Hall ? 
 
 Abthe'2- A ' B ' Things are pretty well with us ; but Francis Bugg ft ill 
 
 and at' s'Z'u continues his Writing againft Friends : And he being examined by 
 
 again. Satnuel fulbig, Whether he owns W. Roger's wicked Book i (Which 
 
 admits of Liberty of Confcience, to pay Tythes, or not ■, to marry 
 
 with a Publick Minifter, or not ; ) and he owns it : And therefore, 
 
 we muft take care about him, for he does much hurt to Truth, and 
 
 lays Stumbling Blocks in the way of others. 
 
 Meeting. Courfe, we know not well what courfe to take with 
 
 • int» blind him ; he will neither lead, * nor drive, f •' Indeed we have fuffer- 
 cmformity. ed hi ra too i 0D g Q e rk, j n this Meeting i but it may thank R. S. 
 Juitt* frith 3' A ' E'L. and fomeofyou his Friends, or elfe he had been exclu- 
 ded long fince, for his very owning W. Rogers Book , which ad- 
 mits of a voluntary Payment of Tythes •, which, as our dear Brother 
 
 • Antidote, Ellvcood faith, * is a mark of Antichrift, a Denial of Chrift come in 
 f 78139. the Flefh., yea, downright Ranterifm : But notwithstanding, thro' 
 + thrift. Qu«k. fuch Arguments as W. Rogers ufe, f we have by woful Experience, 
 difting. Part 2. feen, that fome have been convinced ten, lbme twenty Years, and yet 
 *' 4>- can pay Tythes without any acknowledgment of Evil therein ■, and al- 
 
 • Amidoti, tho' we grant, faith our Brother E/Iwood, * That our great Apoftle G. 
 t- 10 9- Fox , did lay in his feveral Papers given forth for fpreading 
 
 Truth: * Friends, to you all this is the Word of the Lord; 
 
 'fTake heed of judging one another; judge not 
 
 t Ste, Vox's Papers ere the c one another I command you, in the prefence of the 
 
 WW of tu urd whuji they fay, 1 Lord and ; udge not one anot her behind one ano- 
 
 £*£?£« U ' <er ' ' thers backs, * I command you in the prefence of 
 
 See his Book, Entitled, The c the Lord •, this is the Word of the Lord unto 
 
 Way to the Kingdom of God, ' you : Neither lay open one anothers Nakednels 
 
 !*&• *• ' and Weaknefs behind one anothers Backs, for thou 
 
 * ft* the } faffed Sentence on me ' that doft, art one of Hants Family which is under 
 
 behind my back, i not being thtre i the Curfe, (5c. This indeed (continues our be- 
 
 that Day, i.e. 4th: June, 1681. -loved Brother,) is a warning to Friends, not to 
 
 . ., , , . , , ' judge one another : t But, it is not a warning to 
 
 t he, let their Immoralities be ,4, . ° , ji^l /• T- • 1 
 
 grojs, d» but he* hi the Unity Friends, not to judge thofe that oppofe Friends, 
 of the corrupt Body. l being gone out of the Unity of Friends themfelves, 
 
 ' and endeavouring to draw others out alio, and to 
 c divide and rend the Church : lb that you have mift your Aim, and 
 ' De Chnftia- \ ^ vour Blow, £fc. Thus Friends, you have the Judgment of the 
 na Libertate, c Church j and Francis Bugg has not only owned that pernicious Book, 
 &c. And the c but has written two Books againft Friends, as pernicious as that of 
 u'Ttt slr^'t c ^*&5?** s i * nay, not only lb, but hath wrote divers Letters, Re- 
 Julivhiftfa. 1 monfl ranees and Queries, to particulax Friends, to the Second-day 
 
 * Meeting. 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. $ 1 
 
 ' Meetings. And therefore, 'tis time to take fome courfe with 
 
 'him, tfc . 
 
 Meeting. Content ■, therefore, let us draw up a Paper againft him, 
 and when we have view'd it, let us Record it, £?V. This was done ; 
 a Copy whereof is as followeth, viz. 
 
 At a guarhrly-Mtetwg in Hadenhain, 7th Day, 
 4th Month, 1682. 
 
 c Whereas this Day,there was inferred f into our 
 c Meeting, feveral Papers fubfcribed by branch t M"tf< &*•'«■' INFERRED. 
 < Bugg, wherein he hath unrighteoufly and ungod- . ^ can caU cthfr MniJtfr , t 
 c lily reflected upon Ancient Friends, and greatly mtckt, Devils, Thiew, Rot- 
 ' abufed faithful Minifters of the Gofpel ; * and alio *«•'» intuhrifis, jefuitt, Blood- 
 c amoneft the faid Papers, was one fubfcribed by h ' mds ' • w <"»<"'. w »*.* «<? 
 'twelvtPerfons, directed to the Second-Day Z-rT^/'o ' PrlJ^C 
 ' Meeting in London, wherein Friends are mifre- a-fita 
 ' prefented and greatly abufed ; which faid Paper, 
 ' we believe the faid Francis Bugg promoted. Now we being great- 
 ' Iy grieved in our Spirits, and truly fenfible of his herein going from 
 c Truth, doreftifie, We have no Unity with him, nor can have, 
 ' whilft he is thus Afted. 
 
 OBSERVE, Err/?, I was judged and condemned behind my Back, 
 without a Hearing : Secondly, The Papers fubfcribed by twelve 
 Perlbns, they only Tuppofed to be of my promoting. Now if John 
 Li/born s Judges had been thus implicite in their Faith, at his Try- 
 al at Guild-Hall, in Oftober 1 6±p. he muft have been hang'd, for 
 writing the naked Truth in Oliver Cromrcefs time, &c. 
 
 The next Inftance I (hall recite, and which I rhink is to the pur- 
 pofe,is,to Ihew the ^juikers implacable Malice, againft not only W. 
 Rogers,hut his Book too ; and no Palfage in his whole Book came len- 
 der the like fad Sentence, as that of his admitting a Voluntary Pay- The Cfir. 
 ment of Tvthes, if the Supream Powers beftowed it on a National Q ualcer di 
 Miniftry, &c. His Words are, 'We are fo far from condemning J^p* ,; 
 
 * all thofe who freely pay them, C *• £• Tythes,J and not by con- p . ' 43 . 
 c ftraint, that we look upon it to be the Duty of all profeiling Chri- 
 
 * ftianity, to contribute towards the outward Maintainance of fuch, 
 c whom they ufually hear •, and account to be true Minifters of Chrift, 
 ' in cafe they have need : And if the Charity of any fhould be fuch, 
 ' as to beftow upon them one Fifth part, inftead of a Tenth, f3r be 
 ' it from us to condemn it, &c. But this was fuch a horrible Tenate, 
 and lb much of Liberty of Confeience in it, That as you have heard, 
 
 f firj}, ItwasanErrourofJudgmenr. zd/y, It came from an un | Ellwood". 
 lbundMind. ylly, That Truth, [ /'. e . the intake rs Lights allows amUm, 
 no payment of Tytbes at all, under the New Covenant, pbly, They P- ? 8 - 1 &- 
 
 H 2 wr;^ 
 
ji The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 who do pay Tythes, tho' Voluntarily, do therein uphold a legal 
 Ceremony abrogated by Chrift. yhly, And thereby deny Chrift 
 to be come in the Flelh, quoting i John 4. 3. which (peaks not one 
 ly liable of Tythes. 6thly, That it is downright Ranterifm, &c. 
 
 Well, but W. Rogers wasfomodeft, as not to put this Book into 
 the Bookfellers hands to fell, left thereby he might widen the Diffe- 
 rence ; which both he, and my felf, at that time, thought might 
 have been compoitd, f that he put it into the hands 
 fForl did not then under- of John Barnard, a Merchant, (being one of the 
 ftand their Fundamental Er- f epa rate fakers.) for him to difpoie of, and to 
 thTas\L"SdL t o° t h G p < r1: difperfe as he in Wifdom (hould fee meet , and 
 tences proved a Snare to catch iome hundreds ol them he did difperfe. WelLhe 
 me, fo their grofs Diffimuiati. was Summoned time after time, to the Monthly 
 ons proved a means to fee chem. Meeting in LVtw^/re-Houfc, London, to Anfwer 
 
 for his Fault 5 and I think, he as often appeared : 
 
 But being of too Mafculine a Temper, to fubmit to their Arbitrary 
 
 Authority, and Ufurped Dominion, he ftill continued felling and di- 
 
 fpofing of this ib fad and fo lamentable a Book -, of which, you have 
 
 heard the greateft Crime, namely for admitting a Voluntary Payment 
 
 of Tythes, (fc. And to fay true, fo it was-, for there is nothing 
 
 upon Earth that the Qitakers thirft more after, than the utter ruin of 
 
 the Priefthood, and the abolifhing the Maintainance thereof: This 
 
 is the Vein that runs fluently thro' all rheir Books and Sermons ; nay, 
 
 rather than the Priefts f hould have it, and that it might be a means 
 
 to ftarve them, they are willing to pay Tythes to fecular ufe : ' For 
 
 4 (faith G.Whitehcad,) if the King and Great Coun- 
 
 t The Cafe of the Quakers. ' cil of the Nation were pleafedf to repeal thofe 
 
 concerning Oaths defended,^- ' Old Laws, inforcing the payment of Tythes, and 
 
 ». 50. perc whitehead. c t0 convert tne m into fome necefTaiy civil life; as 
 
 * for the Poor [Oh Judar ! 3 or fbme National Ser- 
 Oh fmooth <*«■«.' He«i$ c • d B ene fi t it would appear whether we 
 
 the Face of a Lamb, but the j • 1 i_ r> 
 
 rough Paw of a Bare, and the ' fhould not pay our parts ; and whether the Roy- 
 Claws of a Leopard. ' al Exchequer would not be conveniently fupplyed, 
 
 s without the Tenths from the Priefts, &c. Thus 
 they could pay Tythes into the Exchequer, to maintain a War, which 
 they equally Difclaim : Oh ! but do what you will with the 
 Tythes, fb the Priefts do but ftarve, and their Minrftry fall, and 
 their Religion over-turned-, then HEY BOYS UP GO WE : But 
 (bleffed be God) the fear of that is paft. 
 
 Well, but let us hear what became of this honeft John Barnard: 
 Why, in fhort, he was Excommunicated ipfofatto. A Copy of it 
 here fblloweth verbatim. 
 
 from 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifHanity. j > 
 
 From the Monthly Meeting at Devonfhire-Houfe, the Fourth 
 
 of the Eleventh Month, 1681. * 
 
 c Whereas there hath been fome unruly Spirits gone out fiora 
 'Truth, and the Unity of the blefTed Power of God, which hath ga- 
 'theted us to be a People, Writing, Printing, and Publifhing things 
 c hurtful and prejudicial toTrurh, by corrupting of Peoples Minds, 
 ' tending alio to draw them into Difefteem of many of the Lord's Ser- 
 4 vants, f whofe Faithfulnefs hath manifeftly appeared amongft us, t A Pnftrva- 
 c wirh whom our Unity ftands, to our mutual Satisfa£Hon and Re- tive f° r '>">r 
 
 'ftefhment. ^tZttii' 
 
 ' Upon confideration of thefe things, . we find our felves confcien- '" £ ep " "* 
 4 tioufly concerned, * to take, notice of fomething of this Kind, be-- h! Deep 
 c fallen John Bernard, Merchant, formerly a Member of this Meet- Hypwifu. 
 ' ing, who having difperfed into feveral Parts of this Nation, divers 
 
 * of thole pernicious Books, wrore by William Rogers, called, The 
 c Chrijlian §>itaker dijh nguijhed from the Apoflate and Innovator, in 
 1 Five Parts, &c which hath manifeftly been proved in many mate- 
 
 * rial Paflages, Erroneous and Falfe, both in the Hiftorical and Do- 
 ' ttrinal Parr of it ; was privately and publickly reproved for rhat un- 
 ' righteous A&ion, by feveral Friends, at divers rimes, according to 
 
 ' Gofpel Order, as they found it on their Spirits from the Lord, f as f t?tver was 
 c alfo admonifhed againft it; yet, after all the Labour and Travel, God's Name 
 c Friends have had on his behalf, being defirous, if poflible, to re- mtre F<>r h *- 
 ' claim him our of the Enemies Snare,into which he is fallen ■, he hath Z^ij^/^J 
 f from time to time refifted their Advice and Counfel : So that now, %inT 
 
 * we being wholly clear, having ufed our utmoft Endeavours in the 
 ' good Will of God, to reclaim him as aforefaid, do not only teftifie 
 c againft that Spirit which hath led him into that diforderly Pra- 
 
 * ftice, but alio againft him, whilft join'd thereunto ; * nor can we * Both the Man 
 ' have fpiritual Communion, or Fellowfhip with him, until unfeign- and his spirit 
 
 * edly he fhall return unto the Truth, by condemnation of that Work (»^* m "fd. 
 
 * and Spirit, which in the Love of God we exhort him to, and defire, 
 
 * that for him a place of Repentance may be found. 
 
 Reader, What Perfbn living, who is a Stranger to the Quakers 
 deep-dyed Hypoctifie, bur that would think this John Bernard had 
 committed fome more than ordinary Immorality, nay, fbme almoft 
 unpardonable Crime ? Here is fuch Indeavours faid to be ufed, fuch 
 Gofpel Order exercifed, fuch Stiff neckednefs on his parr, wilfully 
 perhfted in \ but behold all centre in a moft profound Piece of Hypo- 
 crifie, as I ihall fhew, and that from divers Reafbns : And, 
 
 FIRST, In that Benjamin Clark their Bookfeller, a grear Quaker 
 in their Unity, t fold at the fame time Play-Books, Popifh-Books, t l^'j *«" 
 Gypfie-Books, yea, Baudy-Books, fuch as I never faw before , zni^ 4 **" 11 "" 
 
 yet. 
 
54 The Pilgrim's Progrejl , 
 
 yet never Reproved, never Admonifhed, according to Gofpel Order j 
 never fentenced and condemned, neither he nor his Spirit : By which, 
 it may appear, how zealous they are for preferving their own good 
 Name, and Efteem amongft their Profelytes, and their own Laws and 
 Commandments, from being brought into difrepute^ and yer all thefe 
 their Proceedings, they father upon the Lord, who hares Iniquity, 
 and whole Laws condemn fuch wicked Books, as their own beloved 
 Brother (old and vended every day. Thus do they Pharifee-like, 
 make void the Law of God by their Traditions. 
 
 For, as loon as this Excommunication came to my hand, I (as a 
 Country-Man,) went to the fa id Ben. Clarks, and asked for fome 
 pretty Play -Books for Children : and he produced me a parlel of 
 all forts, utfupra ! of which I bought Eighteen-Pennyworth, and 
 
 ♦ DeChr Lib. noticed it in my next Book ; f which they never did deny, nor did 
 Part i. p.»<>7. (hey evej fentence him as above. 
 
 SECONDLY,In all the Records of Condemnation,that ever I made, 
 or ever law made, during the \6 or 18 Years I was their Clerk, I 
 never knew of, or law any Record of Condemnation againft any 
 Quaker, for the Breach of any Scripture Commands ; but either for 
 
 * As my feF.writing againft their Teachers, * or for paying Tythes, or for dilper- 
 t AsfOww.fing an( * felling fuch Books, as allowed of the payment of Tythes, t 
 
 or for not Marrying according to their Orders, or for the Breach of 
 fome one or more of G. Fox's Commandments. An inftance of the 
 laft fblloweth. 
 
 Hadenham Quarterly-Meeting, the Fourth of the Seventh 
 Month, 1678. 
 
 ' We at thisQuarterly Meeting having the Bufinefs of John Ainflo s 
 
 * taking his Wife, contrary to the Order of Friends brought BEFORE 
 
 1 US i and Friends having leveral times ipoke to him about it, and he 
 
 c not giving Friends fttisla&ion, WE do teflifie, That WE have no 
 
 { UNION with him in this his lb doing, iSfc. 
 
 THIRDLY, I never knew any Book wrote againft any of their 
 
 tAs in the Teachers in the Unity, tho' guilty of notorious Immoralities ; t no, 
 
 opening of jj ere was no confciencious Concern manifefted, no Gofpel Order exer- 
 
 Aall Ihew Ci &d-> no Publick Condemnation fent out againft them, but againft 
 
 my fel£ George Keith, Tho. Crifp, and others, for difcovering their 
 
 Errours : Here they pretend a great Cale of Confcience ; and having 
 
 + DeChrif. f hewed who they account fcandalous Walkers, and who thev fre- 
 
 zjb. &c. quently Record our of the Unity, and who they write their Books 
 
 p - n J *• t-+?f againft, I ihall conclude this Chapter with one of their Yearly Ca- 
 
 *1^a^4 note; and if any deflre to fee more of them, I refer to my former 
 
 Chjpttr of thit Books, f. 
 
 frutiji. London, 
 
From Quakerism to Chriftianity. 55 
 
 London, the 2 7th of the Third Month, 1675. 
 
 Concerning Recording the Church's Tejiimony, and the Party's 
 
 Condemnation. 
 
 * That the Church's f Teftimony and Judgment againft diforder- t The Light 
 *ly and lcandalous Walkers, alfo the Repentance and Condemnati- writhe Btdj 
 'on of the Party's reftored, be Recorded in a diftinft Book, in the ,oin,d ' 
 
 * refpettive Monthly and Quarterly Meeting, for the clearing Truths, 
 ' Friends, and our Holy Ptofeiiion, to be produced, and publifhed 
 ' for that end and purpole, fo far only as in God's pure Heavenly 
 c Wifdom they fhall be needful : And 'tis our Advice in the Love of 
 
 * God, That after any Friend's Repentance and Reiteration, he ahi- 
 ' ding faithful in the Truth, that condemns the Evil, none among 
 c you fb remember his Tranfgreflion, as to caft it at him, or upbraid 
 
 * him with it •, for that is not according to the Mercy of God, 
 
 Thus Reader you lee, Fi'rji, Who are the lcandalous Walkers 
 they Record out of their Unity, idly. You fee, here is an Order 
 from the Yearly Meeting, to get a Book diftinft for that Ule. $d/y, 
 You lee alfo, that here is a door open, that if any repent of Wri- 
 ting againft them, ofpayingTythes, of Marrying contrary to their 
 Infallible Order, they may be reftor'd to their former Dignity ; for 
 they have power to bind and to loole, t to condemn and to acquit ;+ Y ea , whom 
 and that it may ^o evidently appear, I fhall recite one of their final they pieafe. 
 Sentences, pais'd upon one of their Adverfaries, Irrevocably, viz. ^/"^ 
 
 p. 8j. 
 
 In the Name of that God, that fpanneth the Heavens nvf^JofiahCoalV 
 a Span, and meafureth the Waters in the hollove of his Hand, l w »rks, p. i«. 
 bind thee here on Earth, and thou art furely bound in Heaven , w , 
 and in the Chain under Darknefs, to the Judgment of the Great ever the like; 
 Day thou fialt be referved. Ihfolency. 
 
 Jofiah Coale. 
 
 I 
 
 Some Inferences from the Eighth Chapter ■► 
 
 S it fo then, that thefe Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, who de- 
 rive their Power and Authority from the Yearly Meetings, af l^f^ one 
 fume to themfelves this great boldneis, to Arraign, Sentence, and p r oof \v»s e- 
 Condemn Perfons, for difiegarding their illegal Laws, and for the ver produced, 
 breach of their unfcriptural Commands > t What need is there then "J lengthen 
 tafuppreis theft Meetings, that thus alienate the Obedience ofthe**'^^™ 
 / Subjefts, Anions. 
 
5 6 The Pilgrim's Progrefs, 
 
 Subjects from their lawful Soveraign, and his Laws, and to limit this 
 
 Arbitrary Government thus exerciled in thefe new Spiritual Courts, 
 
 whilft it may be-, left the time come, wherein they may capitulate 
 
 with die Supreme Magiftrate, and tell him with a carnal' Weapon in 
 
 their hand, that the Light is the Higher Power, and all Powers and 
 
 Dominions ought to cait their Crowns down at its Feet in the Saints ? 
 
 However, I have given warning, by pointing at the Danger, -and 
 
 hope to prefcribe a Remedy ; and let not THE POOR MAN S 
 
 jLcitf.9.14,1 s. COUNSEL be rejected, left the time come, wherein it may be faid, 
 
 // is too late, far the Gibeonites bath deceived 'us with weir Wiiet. 
 
 Jofliua^p'/':. Pray read the ninth Chapter of Jqjhua at your leifure, and think it 
 
 read and pon- not a ftrange thing to be deceived by the Quakers fair Shews, and 
 
 d i?'V b vr ech innocent Pretences, when you fee that good Jojhua the Servant of 
 ail wile Men.^ j^ and Succeffour f Mo f es ^ he? and his Wife Men and 
 
 . Councilors, were all deceived ; the belt of Men mean well, and 
 thinking others do fo too, are oft times the fooneft deceived. A word 
 "to the Wile (as the Proverb is) fhould be fuffiotent. 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 Sheveeth the Quakers Fund , Exchequer, or Common Ban^ and 
 the ZJfe and ill Confequences of it. 
 
 IConfidered, that as Blood is to the Veins, which by a frequent 
 Circulation thro* the Body ofMan, both refrefh the Heart and 
 fupport the Head; and that, as the Sinews to the Joints both 
 unite the Members and ftrengthen the Body, lb doth th& ^takers Ex- 
 chequer ftrengthen and fupport them, in the carrying on their whole 
 Delign : For as Money is laid to be the Sinews of War, fo it may be 
 called the Nerves of Herefie; tor Money anfwers all things. And 
 to ihew it to be fo, with refpeft to the Quakers, I fhall briefly fhew, 
 hrit, Their way and manner of railing their Bank; next, Their 
 way of Diftribution : In both which, it cannot be expected, that 
 I ifiould be exa£t in their very Words, having forgot great part of 
 their Cant ; nor the Particulars to whom they dilpole oftheir Money ; 
 that's a Secret kept under Lock and Key : It fulficeth then, that I 
 give fomefure Marks of both, and which I hope, I fhall fo infalli- 
 bly do, as never an infallible Weaker lhallbe able to deny. 
 
 IIRST THEN, I remember when I vnsS&ater, we now and 
 then had an Epiftle lent to our Quarterly Meetings in the Country, 
 from the Second-Day Meeting in London^ for a General Collection 
 for the Service of Truth : This Epiftle thus fent, I have Copied 
 out, and have read it in our Meeting at Milden-kiall ■, I have both 
 
 given 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 57 
 
 given to it, and took what our Meeting contributed, and have car- 
 ried it to the Quarterly-Meeting, where I have taken all the Collecti- 
 ons gathered quite thro' the Iile of Ely, if not the County of Cam- 
 bridge, fto return to London, for the Publick life: All this I know, + Which I do 
 and if need were, would depole it. I do not lay, but the Yearly- think, I alfo 
 Meeting, as in Chap. 7. fbmetimes do the like ; as alfo, examine the h » d "return 
 Accounts,conftitute and appoint Feoftees^and the like •, and to which, t0 ""*"' 
 the Second-Day Meeting is accountable : But, during the Intervals 
 of their Yearly Convocation, the Second-Day Meeting hath both 
 Power to receive and to difpofe, as I lhall mew hereafter. 
 
 Now, whereas for many Years together, the $>ii<tker Teachers 
 Bantered all other Minifters, for taking Money for their Subfiftence ; 
 the National, for taking Tvthes, and other Dues ; the Diflenters, 
 for taking the voluntary Gift of their Hearers; whilft the Quakers 
 
 Eretended to Teach freely, yea, to Write freely, and to do the Lord's 
 ufinefs freely ; when alas ! this was all a Cheat, as in the Story of 
 Be/land the Dragon: For they had not only their Charges for them- 
 lelves, and Horfesfree, Cloaths, Hats, Linnen and Woollen oft times 
 free, but now and then a good Watch free alfo ; befides, out of the 
 Bank, they had their frequent Salleries and Sti- 
 pends, 10, f 20, and 30/. at a time; yea, I have 
 been told, That T.G. had once icof. at a time, 
 and /. Parke 20 /. per Annum : Yet, when told 
 of this Hypocrifie, they have Anfwer'd, They did 
 not Preach for Money, tho' their Teachers did take 
 Money : And might not all other Minifters fay fb 
 too, That Money was not the end for which they 
 Preached, but the good of Souls-, only what they 
 had, was to maintain them in that Station to which 
 they were call'd and let apart ? 
 
 But IV. Rogers wrote a Scourge for G. White- 
 head, Anno 1685. where he hath thefe Words. 
 
 See a few Words out of W. Roger'/ Second 
 Scourge. 
 
 But, blefs'd be God, Rome's Sifter hath a Wound, 
 And 'tis not Whitehead's Craft, can heal it found ; 
 The Church, her Practice, which he oft defends, 
 Is moft like Rome's, lb far as Power attends ; 
 And yet, when She, Rome's Sifter, is but call'd, 
 She Winces, like toucht Horfes that are gall'd. 
 Confufion Her attends, next follows WOE, 
 For thus She whirls, but God knows where She'll go 
 
 + Witnefs S. Cater and JoJm 
 Songhurft, of whom I have a pret- 
 ty Story. When W. Mead was 
 Purfer, >'. e. Simghurfl pretending 
 want of Money, G. Fox fent him 
 toff. M. W. M.Wdepoflted 12 /. 
 and enter'd it in his Book. This 
 did not pleafe Songkurji ; he goes 
 to G. Fox, and acquaints him 
 with it. Fox told him.that wasff. 
 Mead's way. Well, Songharft did 
 not like to ftand on Record, a 
 taker of Money, who had fo 
 many Years pretended to Preach 
 freelyjaway goeshe to W.M.with 
 his Money in his Sack's Mouth ; 
 W. Mead takes it, and enters it 
 on the contrary Page, Receiv'd 
 ofSmghwft 12 !. This made it 
 worfe ; for, now he had not the 
 Money, yet (till ftands Record- 
 ed, &c. 
 
 For G. Whitehead an Apofrare 
 Quaker, in a Poem, Printed 
 168;. 
 
 When 
 
5« 
 
 made poor 
 Ellwood cen- 
 feft all, as 
 jo* 11 hear a- 
 nan. 
 
 The Pilgrim's Progrejl* 
 
 When Fox had frarn'd i'th' Church a Government, 
 Preachers apptov'd by Man, Beyond-Seas went j 
 Who, when they wanted Monies to proceed, 
 The Church Her Calh then did fupply their need : 
 And therefore, when her Caih was empty 'd, SHE 
 Cravd Money for to ierve the MINISTRY. 
 At length, her Papers like to Briers, did Cry 
 
 \TMStmrg, For MONEY, MONEY, for the MINISTRY f: 
 
 /marted, and And when that Practice wasdillik'd by lbme, 
 
 Shefrown'd like one, who's Downfal's near to come ; 
 File, Why muft each one with his Key appear 
 Where Caih is kept, to fhew what Money's there ? 
 This Church will tail, Her Load will be her Guile, 
 If you, Flock! keep Purfe Srrings raft a while; 
 And Woes may long attend fuch prating Preachers, 
 As for Preferment, turn deceitful Teachers. 
 Some wonder (Whitehead) keeps fb long in Favour, 
 Since Fox is more defpis'd, thro' Whiteheads Labour-, 
 Fox isterm'd Head, yet Whitehead ftear'd the Courfe, 
 Till both were fcorn d, and they grew worfe and worfe. 
 
 Thus Reader, I have given you W. Rogers Sence, firft, That 
 Rome's Sifter hath got a Wound, yea, almoft a deadly Wound-, 
 that the Quakers Church are the moft like Rome ; and this is true in 
 Fa£c : Next, Their Preachers take Money for Preaching, and for 
 Preferment turn deceitful Teachers-, all true as Gofpel. Next, That 
 they have a Fund, which is moft dangerous : Next, That their Pa- 
 pers and Epiftles for Money, did fly amongft us like fb many Briefs, 
 craving Money, Money, for theMiniftry •, Money, Money, to af- 
 fift us in our Confederacy, or we are not able to fupplant Chriftiani- 
 ty. I will next give you a recital of a Letter fent me, written about 
 John C/emence, &c. bearing Date 26th of the Eleventh Month, 1684. 
 
 Dear Friend, &c. 
 
 f At Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 ♦ B:lt FOX, 
 
 Whitehead, 
 &c. never 
 liked thtfe 
 fritndi. 
 
 ' I underftand, rhat there is a new Controverfie lately rifen, about 
 ' the Money thou once told me, was gathered amongft Friends, for 
 
 'the relief of J. C 
 '.knowing right well 
 
 - Friends here f are much concerned about it, 
 that all honeft Friends in that Day, gave it 
 c freely, expecting nothing again ; fome are dead ; I fuppole, they 
 ' did not make the COMMON BANKERS their Executors 5 the 
 'Doners Will muft be fulfilled in all things, and not the COMMON 
 ' PI RSE-A WAGERS f at this Day ; that being contrary to true Re- 
 ' ligion, to take thought for to morrow. I have been examined by 
 
 rhe LAW PROFESSORS, Whether we had 
 
 a COMMON 
 PURSE, 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 59 
 
 ' PL T RS£ or BANK ? I anfwered, we had NONE. 
 
 ' + This gave lb much farisftdtion, that Friends in t A great Lie, and with a de- # 
 
 ' this Town * have been quiet E VERS IN C E. f ««"» D f e . ive ' ncxt t0 Per > ur y- 
 
 ' The Magiftrates look upon COMMON BAA A'- f rCXivc the weil-mean- 
 
 ' £f?$, to be as bad as thofe that hoard up Arms ing Magiftrates been all along 
 « and Ammunition , and not \_faid She,'} without deceived by the Quakers Lies ; 
 
 « reafon ; for Money anfwers all things ' If Friends * ^r^MMON IankI 
 
 'would put away this DaOON, and take Till/- COMMON PURS R, their 
 
 'A r £X only for their prefent Neceiiities, things their DAGON, as I did; only 
 
 'would foon be better with them; God will not to blind the Magiftrates and get 
 
 'bids thofe that break hi<i Commands, with Liberty, ihe thus decew d ««n. 
 
 ' HOARDING up COMMON BANKS, and • A fign ^ canno t plead 
 
 ' Quarrelling With thofe that Will not bring \v\MO- Ignorance of t,heir Fond, if flie 
 
 • NET fall enough to them : I have obferved, it h . adfo lon f made that Obferva. 
 ' hath been frequent with fome,to reckon thofe that £«• t a h n e d if ^ned* 
 ' brought in molt Money into their C M M A Quaker- like, who ftick at no- 
 
 'BANK, to be the beft ChriftianS, * &V. thing that may advance the 
 
 Ann Doaora. New Catholick Caufe. 
 
 Thus Reader, I have {hewed by a recital of Mrs. Dbcioras Letter, 
 what fence (he had oftheir Common Fund, /'. e. that it was as bad 
 as Hoarding up Arms and Ammunition ; and fhe is lb far in the right 
 on't. You fee alfo, what Teftimonies hath been given out, both 
 Publick and Private, againft thefe private Purfe-mongers, and their 
 railing Common Banks, as that which is fo pernicious to the Civil 
 Government, that it is as bad as Arms and Ammunition ; for Money 
 anfwers all things : For, having this private Fund, they can pay 
 their Minifters, and enable them to range the World over, pretend- 
 ing to Teach freely, to fbrfake their Fathers Country, Riches and 
 Honours, (as you have heard,) and all, to come and fpend them- 
 felves, their Strength and Years, for the good of Souls -, and all this 
 freely, without Money, and without Price: And you fee, your 
 Teachers, they muft have their Tythes, their Gleabe-Lands, their 
 Fafter- Reckonings, and their Midfummer-Dues •, by which you may 
 fee, they are followers of Balaam, the Son of Baser, who loved the 
 Wages of Unrighteoufnefs : Now by our Fruit, and the Fruit of 
 the World's Teachers, you may try us, and prove us. Thus poor t 7 mean '}'"'' 
 Hearts, the very fame People that give to thefe Collet ions, tknow^"^ re 
 nothing oftheir Teachers taking Money; nay, many, of them will m > 'admitted 
 difpute ftrenuoufly againft you, on their Teachers b-/half •, That they inh the kn in- 
 take no Money, that they Teach freely, as above told. And thus are ''"&* *i ' 
 thefe filly Sheep carried away with the W il .-s oftheir Teachers, and '"' ng! ' 
 follow them as the Ifraducs did Rebellious Ah/alow , in the ftmpli- 2 $ m „_ , - , j 
 city of their Hearts. 
 
 I I 2 But 
 
60 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 But Reader, this Scourge did lb torment this well-favour'd Har- 
 lot, it did \b fting and nettel her, that poor Whitehead's dull Pen 
 was not able to bear up : Then came in Tho. Ellwood, and tho" he 
 wrote as much to the Point as his Craft could invent, yet W. Rogers, 
 Stroaks entered fodeep, and made fuch a Wound, as that he, /'. e. 
 Ellwood, was fore'd, poor Man, (full ill againft his will,) to confeis, 
 their Minifters did take Monty, and their Clerks were paid out of 
 their Fund; which they had not only for Forty Years -pretended to 
 the contrary, but by Ten thoufand Sermons folemnly declared, that 
 they neither take Silver, Gold nor Apparel, but freely they had re- 
 ceived, and freely delivered to the People. O the horrible deceipt 
 of this People ! However, let it fufflce, that IV. Rogers have whipt 
 them into a better Temper, who now confefs the Fact, and plead the 
 Apoftles Pracf ice. But I deny, that ever the Apoftles pretended to 
 take neither Silver, Gold nor Apparel ; and yet, contrary to his pre- 
 tention, took all he could lay his Hands on : No : this is the Pra- 
 ctice only of the Quakers ; no Man queftioning the lawfulnefs of the 
 Minifters Maintainance, fave the Quakers only, who yet take with 
 both Hands •, their Fruit hath made them manifeft. V Veil, lets hear 
 T. Ellwood, viz. 
 
 Rtgero hiajiix, But that Chrift's Minifters fhould be fupply'd 
 p. 18. With NecefTaries, by the Church's Bride, 
 
 Is fuch a known and certain Truth, as none 
 
 Perhaps hath e're oppos'd, but thou alone : 
 
 That 'tis the Church's Duty to fiipply 
 
 The needful Wants of all her Miniftry; 
 
 And truth it is, too plain to be deny'd, 
 t No,7*<i»)^, thrift's Church fhould for Chrift's Minifters provide. 
 'tis Quakers' What carps thou at then, William? Would thy Mufe 
 Pi", tho' for plead, that St. Paul did not this Priviledge ufef? 
 now p^ead it ^ at wnat was lacking to him privately, 
 
 The Macedonian Brethren did fupply. 
 •Their Clerk, Thus it appears, the Apoftle did partake 
 who had jo /. Of that Provifon which the Church did make; 
 fer An. as Pretend thou canft not, that the Stock is given 
 ry U to thei/ * To f ucn as have no need thereof, but even 
 Pretences, as Thy flurt at Richard/on^ * for taking Pay; 
 for their For what ? As Clerk, he writes \ does much bewray 
 
 Ufa MonSiT h y FoUy and In J uftice - Isr DOt fir > 
 
 but now both Who works for others, fhould be paid for it , 
 
 confeft. And that by them, who him to work defire I 
 
 + 'Tis con- The Labourer i; worthy of his Hiref. 
 
 feft, you have 
 
 your Herd? Obferve Reader, the Charge is confeft : Firft, That^hey have 
 
 a Stock, 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifHanity. 61 
 
 a Stock, by which they fupply the wants of their Teachers, /. e. pay 
 
 them; yea, and well too: Witnefs their Increafe in Wealth. 
 
 2dly, That their Clerks take Money for Writing, and that they are " 
 
 Hirelings ; this I and others knew well enough, but Whitehead had 
 
 lb denied the lame, that there was thoulands of Quakers would not 
 
 believe a word of it : But now, W. Rogers Scourge hath lb lalh'd this 
 
 painted Harlot, that Ihe by her dear Son Ellwood, hath confefs'd it, 
 
 and fpake more Truth in this matter, than Whitehead, and twenty 
 
 more of their Apoftate Scribes have been ever made to do ; and I am 
 
 willing to do him right herein •, for according to the Proverb, I am 
 
 willing to give the Droilhis due. I need not quote Book and Page, j. $ ee ^^ 
 
 to prove their Preachers pretences to Preach freely, without Money, Book ftiied, 
 
 ffc. Their Books are full of Proof, and their Sermons from Dan Concerning' 
 
 to Beerjheba : But I have faid, they pretended to write freely ; and Marriages, 
 
 this I ought to prove ; which I fhall do, from their Great Apoftle panted to -5 ™* 
 
 and Second Mofes, namely G. Fox, t vie. g. Bx. 
 
 ' If any Friends go together in the Power of the Lord, or find a 
 c neceffity thereunto, that after the thing hath been made known be- 
 c tween themfelves, before any thing be concluded, it be declared to 
 
 * Friends, who are able* to fee and feel into it •, and if they lee the * PK, Their 
 ' thing in the Light and Power to Hand, it may be declared to Friends Teachers 
 
 ' in the Meeting, as they are moved ; or, as they are moved, they n h A ch Pra " 
 ' may declare it in the mid-time of the Market, on the Market-Day, after warTs* to 
 ' in the next MarketTown as they are moved,or they may not,as their be abhor'd. 
 'freedom is: Then, after a convenient time, and the thing be leen 
 ' and felt, and had Unity with,then an Affembly of about 1 2 Friends 
 'met together, they may ipeak their Teftimony as they are moved, 
 ' how the Lord hath joined them together in Marriage ; and then a 
 
 * Certificate by Friends then prelent, may be given, of the Day, 
 ' Month and Year, that it may be Recorded ; and as they are mo- 
 
 ' ved, they may declare it to the Magiftrate, and they will, f or they + G Fox wa$ 
 'may not; AND THAT NOTHING MAY BE RECORDED Infallible 
 'FOR MONEY IN THESE THINGS, BUT FREELY, A FREE fence or non. 
 'PEOPLE, AND IN LOVE SERVT ONE ANOTHER; and J? 1 ^ *"* 
 
 * that is it, that you fhould feel the Thing in the Power, &c. 
 
 George Fox. 
 
 Now let me fubjoin a Second Teftimony of George Fox\ againft 
 taking of Money, &c. 
 
 ' f Friends, you are to do the Nations Bufinels freely, and that is f Several Pa- 
 ' the way to get into the Hearts of People, CV. pers given 
 
 forth ptr g. 
 
 I remember there is in one of the Quakers Declarations, a Referve R *' A>h l6 ' 9 ' 
 left for Fighting afterwards : We YET, (fay they,) cannot believe, 
 he will make ufe of the Sword by us, but for the PRESENT, we are 
 given up to Bear and Suffer, CV. So had G. Fox laid, that as YET 
 
 let 
 
6% The Filgrim's Trogrefs, 
 
 let nothing be RECORDED tor MONEY, but for the PRESENT, 
 /. e. till you have a fair Opportunity, do things freely, Cc. Then 
 f As there is there had been a fair PI .a-, f rhen AS YET, might by G. TVhite- 
 now for ■ bead, have been rendered Adhuc, and not Tamen ■, for 'tis manifeft, 
 Whipping, that their early pretence to Teach, Preach, write Certificates, &c 
 prifonlneTnd ^ ee ^J r > was ^ ur to g er ult0 the Aftec'tions of the People, until a more 
 Fighting, <£v. & ir opporruniry ; and then Expert enti a. docet, they can take 50/. 
 per Annum, for writing Certificates, Gfc. Thirty Pounds for writing 
 See New five or fix Sheets,call'd a Primmer, to teach Children ; 10 /. at a time 
 RtmtUti' for Preaching, &c. But G. W. by his Book, ftiled The Contention A- 
 mwk'd,^. poftate-cy<r. p.22. he feems to deny G.ioxs Order for Marriage,where 
 where i°have it's laid, nothing is to be Recorded for Money, &c. as above-cited: 
 enlarged But G. TV. I have it, and you may foon fee it in the Library of 
 hereon from Chrift's Church Colledge in Oxford, where that and many others of 
 Boo?' U * kerS y. our Books, which you would be glad were extinct, will remain 
 for Ages to lee, and be able thereby to detect your Fallacies. And 
 now follows part of the recited DECLARATION, vie. 
 t To the pre- c t We have chofen the Son of God to be our King, and he hath 
 fent diftraft- < chofen us to be his People ; and he might command Thoufands and 
 & ?»j°S °^ ' ^ en tnou ^ an ^ s °^ n ' s Servants at this Day, to Fight in his Caufe^ he 
 Pnnted'itfjp. c might lead them forth, and bring them in, and give them Victory 
 p. 8. ' over all their Enemies, and turn his Hand upon their Perfecutors ; 
 
 ' but yet his Kingdom is not of this World, neither is his Warfare 
 ' of carnal Weapons, neither hath he chofen us for that end, neither 
 
 • No, ftay a c can vve ¥ET believe* that he will make ufeof us in that way, tho' 
 littie'longer. c it be his only Right to Rule in Nations, and ioof Heirfhip topof- 
 t Ay,bepati- C fefsthe utmoft parts of the Earth ; but for THE PRESENT f we 
 ent a little <■ are given up to bear, and fuller all things for his Names lake, iffc. 
 longer. g ut ft ea der, if you look back to Fax's Ordc r for Marriage,you may 
 
 obferve,that he points to have the Matter laid before their Minifters -, 
 ' and thereupon, 1 ihall Ihew you a brief Teftimony of one of' their 
 'Female Breachers, a Woman of Note amongft them, in a Letter 
 c I have by me-, part of that againft their Hoarding up Money, 
 ' which is as bad as Hoarding up Arms and Amunition, viz. 
 
 * Am Die- ' — * I have heard fbmething concerning this Controverfie now on 
 was Letter, 'foot, which I perceive arifes from a Perfbnal Quarrel, about a 
 dated Feb. ks. c Maid that was chufing a Husband for her ielf\ and alfo,'tis expeft- 
 
 4 " c ed fhe fhould give up her concern in that Bufinefs, to fbme of our 
 
 + Not fince ' PRHACHERS, which was never praftifed until oflate, t amongft 
 Popery, till c anv t hat protefs'd true Religion ; it is that which hath made the 
 Smein it! '7 ESl ' in '' S xohG AB] ^0R D amongft feme of the wifeft and ho- 
 Room. c nefteft of the Papifts themfelves •, fo that they would not let them 
 
 ' come within their Houfes. If'the Maid bea wife Woman, and of 
 ' Age to difpofe of her felf, fhe will ^ot let any of our Preachers 
 
 ' meddle 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 6} 
 
 £ meddle wich her Concerns f of chufing a Husband for her; they fWhy.G f<,x 
 ' Ihould only meddle with their own Bufinefs, and let honeft Friends advifed to it, 
 * make their Choice themfelves, &c. A. D. look back. • 
 
 Reader, The main thing I recite part of this Letter, is, to (hew 
 the fenfe fbme ftill amongft them have of their own Teacher's Je- 
 fiiitical Practice, either in making or breaking of Matches, accord- 
 ing as they are plea led or difplealed : I could write a Book by it 
 ielf, only to fhew the bafenels of their Teachers Practice, not only in 
 making Matches, but in making Mifchief in Families, in letting 
 Men and their Wives at variance. 
 
 And more particularly, G. TV. my old Antagonift, as may be feen The Cmtm. 
 in the Books quoted, both relating to my lelf TV. Mucloio, Tho. Crifp, Jp°ftate, p. j. 
 tfe. letting afide John Fetid, and others of his Stamp, that I believe, M* -*P>M* 
 the very boldcft of thejefuites never exceeded them.But having in my juZ m ^i t fix- 
 Book, New Rome Unmask' d, iSfc. p. 57, to 6$. fhewed the evil Ten- c</,8cc. p.289. 
 dency of this their Docfrine and Practice, I refer to that ; but fince 
 that G. W. in his Sober Expojhelations, p. 108: is driving on the 
 fame Trade: Of which, poilibly more hereafter. 
 
 But come Thomas, the chief Bufinefs in this Chapter, is to prove, 
 That the Quakers have a Common Purfe, that they have a Common 
 Fund or Bank, that your Teachers are fupply'd thereout, that your 
 Clerks (as Hirelings) are paid their Yearly Salleries and Stipends, 
 iffc. This and more you have confefsd, which hundreds of your 
 Teachers have deny'd, and ibmetimes gained the Good-will of Magi- Witnefs Am 
 Urates, and their own Quiet thereby. But I would not have the Docwa, who 
 World fo miftaken of thee neither, as to call thee TO M -TELL- ^"'"1^ 
 TROTH; no, this I preiiime was done in a paffion, even whilft they' had" 
 the fmart and anguifh of W. Rogers Scourge was upon thee ; for I none , they 
 dare fay, TOM TELL-TROTH would be a Nick-name for any wereQuiec 
 Quaker-Teacher; and when I view thy Poem, p. 26, to 2 p. I hope a " er ' ^ 
 thou may'ft find in this Book an Anfwer to it , where thou called up- 
 on TV. Rogers to name the Men, I have done it, if that will pleale 
 thee ; where thou pretendedft to forbear John Story, (yet like Joab, 
 finite at his Name -, which when living, was precious to many, and 
 now dead, is not forgotten ; ) I am well fatisfied, that he was a Man 
 of a tender Spirit, and had more Chriftianity and Charity, than all 
 the mercenary Sixty fix Judges. I remember, that at the Bull and 
 Mouth Meeting, Anno 1677. TV. Pc?tn came paft eight or ten Perlbns 
 fitting on the fame Bench with me, to ask me to fet my Hand to their 
 Epiftle of Condemnation. But glad am I, that I wasmadefenfibleof 
 their evil intent •, fox, Thorn as, there was thy felf, John Moone, Eze- 
 kiel TVoolley, Samuel Cater, and many of you concerned in that Pa- 
 per, as wicked a Generation of Men, as void of Charity ,or any thing 
 that is truly Chriftian, as the Newgate-Birds. And what a lad thing 
 is it, that fuch dhTembling Hypocrites, and wicked Impoftors,ihould 
 
 claim 
 
6*4 The Pilgrim's Progrefi y 
 
 claim tothemfelves the Name of the one only true Church of Chrift. 
 And (b I (hall adjourn this Head, until I come to the Chapter where 
 the Cage is, where I lhall make good my Charge, and name Parti- 
 culars, as thou haft defired ; only as a Word of life and Application, 
 I lhall recite a few Verfes wrote by Ann Docwra, Anno .1684. which, 
 as I Printed at the end of W. Rogers Scourge,the Original Manufcript 
 is ftill by me. 
 
 After fo many ftrange Mifhaps, 
 
 In purfuit of John Story y with all thy Traps, 
 
 + c Fox. I pity m °ft tn y t ^ R- e lapfe. 
 
 Thy Weaknefs (hews, thy Day is done, 
 The Night o're-fpreads thy Setting-Sun. 
 
 Cabaliftick Art is out of Date, 
 
 Thy Myfterious Allegories came too late ^ 
 
 To fay the Truth, it is thy Fate. 
 
 None can avoid what God decrees, 
 Thou'rt like a Drone amongft the Bees. 
 
 Thy Strength declines, thy Power decay, 
 
 And thou ly'ft hid this Trying-Day } 
 
 To fave thy felf, is no new way. 
 Remember now the time that's paft, 
 And how thou'ft loft thy Crown at laft. 
 
 Thou did'ft efcape thy Enemies Pains, 
 With Stares-mens Arts, and Preachers Gains, 
 But Dalilah's Wiles has crack'd thy Brains. 
 A Female Power furpriz'd thy Strength, 
 Thy Honour's laid in the Duft at length. 
 
 Such Women as did Aflociate, 
 To help to Govern thy new State, 
 Who's Ambient A&s, time will relate. 
 
 Thefe Women they did claim aright, 
 
 To wa(h the Ethiopian white 5 
 
 To keep things fweet and clean, fay they : 
 But foul things came fo in their way, 
 They work'd in vain bodi Night and Day. 
 Profefiion wipes off no fuch Blots, 
 The Leopard does Of* change his Spots. To 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 6$ 
 
 To compafs Sea and Land thou went, 
 To Profelite thy Will was bent, 
 So raifed Storms or" Difcontent. 
 
 Thus God does blaft what Man devife, 
 
 To infatuate the Worldly-wife. 
 
 This Stubble thou haft built upon, 
 Is for the Fire - the time comes on 
 To try the Work that thou haft done. 
 
 The fecret Hand of Providence 
 
 Protefteth only Innocence. 
 
 Thefe Veries flie wrote concerning G. Fox-, and tho' ihe (being but 
 a Woman,) is turned to her old Vomit, yet I hope, when W.Rogers, 
 John Rauncc, and others, who had a hand in W. Rogers Poem, and 
 fee, and behold the bafe Abule of Tho. Elticood, Hfc. in his Roger o 
 Maftixj &c. will fee caufe to keep at an equal diftance from 
 fuch a deceitful Tribe, as were as cruel to that meek Man 
 John Story, as Doeg the Edomite was to the Priefts of 
 the Lord, of whom David ikid, Pfal. 140. 2, 3. Which imagine 
 Mij chiefs in their Heart ; continually arc they gathered together for 
 War-, they have Jharpned their Tongues like a Serpent •, Adders Foy- 
 Jon is under their Lips. 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 Treat eth of the Quakers Six-Wee!^ Meeting in London, and 
 the pernicious Cotijequences thereof. 
 
 FIRST, f ■ ""^His Six-Week Meeting of theirs, is chiefly to con- 
 ; fult about^and defend their own Members throtigh- 
 J*. out the Kingdom of England, and Dominion of 
 Wales, from the Penalties of certain Laws, which they fore-know 
 that they (hall Tranfgrels, or that hereafter they may Tranfgrels, 
 thro' their being faithful to the Laws and Commands of G. Fox, 
 and the Government of the Quaker-Church. 
 
 SECONDLY, This Meeting of theirs, is one of their moft ancient 
 Meetings for Government, and is made up of chofen Men amongft 
 them, expert in the Laws and Cuftoms of the Nation, well skill'd 
 in the Courts of London and Wcjiminfer, and other hisMajefty's 
 Courts of Record, and fuch as underftand the way and manner of 
 
 K SolH- 
 
66 The Pilgrim's Progrtfi, 
 
 SpUiciting the Parliament ; and to fupport them in all thefe things, 
 they have the Common Bank to ailiftthem-, which as I have ob- 
 is like Blood to their Veins, and Sinews to their Bones. 
 THIRDLY, That I may not feem to impofe my fingle Judg- 
 ment, that there i-> fuch a Meeting ; that the Quakers thereto be- 
 longing, are thus Exerulcd, as well as Authorized, fee their An- 
 niverfary Epiftle. 
 tThe Epift'e '-J- This Meeting being acquainted, that Endeavours have been 
 j oth dOuar l * <u ^ J for Relief of Friends, in relation to Oaths, purfuant to the 
 terly Meet-" ' ^ft Yearly Meetings Advice in that Cafe •, and being fenfible 
 ings ot _ ' of the great care of the [Six Week] Meeting for Sufferings, (till 
 Friends in < leave it to the faid Meeting for Sufferings, to continue their Care 
 1 and 'and Endeavours in that Cafe, &c. And alfo, it is agreed, That 
 Printed ^693.' each Quarterly -Meeting take care, to advife the Cotrefpondents 
 ' for the Counties • and any others concerned, to write only to your 
 1 Correlpondents in London, about their Sufferings ; and not to 0- 
 'therPerfbns, left their Suffering-Cafe be delay'd, &c. 
 
 From whence it is plain, Firft, That they ate a Meeting confti- 
 tuted, to take care of the Quakers Sufferings : And, 2dly, That 
 this Meeting hold Correspond ency with all the Monthly & Quarterly 
 Meetings ofthe Quakers in Englandzm Wales. 3dly, That the Sol- 
 liciting the Parliament on the Quakers behalf, is their Buifinefs. 
 4thly, And that they have a Fund for the Service of their Truth, is 
 undeniable from matter of Fa4t, in the laft Chapter, as well as from 
 Epifr. ibid. tne re cited Epiftle, which fay, ' Friends appointed to view Accounts, 
 p. 3 ." ' report, That they find they are truly ftated, and rightly kept, &c. 
 FOURTHLY,And therefore to point at the Quakers Practical Part 
 One Inftance. herein, it is thus: If a Country Quaker be fued at the Exchequer, 
 or orher Courts, for the Nonpayment of Tythes, or for any other Aft 
 of Obedience to the Quakers CommandrnentSj laid down by their 
 fecond Mofes, if he can but obtain a Certificate from the Quar- 
 terly Meering, to which he belong ; he then fends up the faid Cer- 
 tificate with his Suffering -Cafe, to the Correfpondents belonging 
 to that Quarterly Meeting, and his Bufineis is effectually taken Care 
 of, to all Intents and Purpoles ; and this Six Week Meeting fo ma- 
 nage the Matter,as either to baffle the Plantiff, be he Prieft or Impro- 
 priator ; C as I ftill remember Smith, Brother to Robert Smith, 
 
 of WbitleTfeacoats, did Cduncellor Hoicman, of Cbaterice, in the 
 Ifle of Ely, i. e. the Impropriator 3 or elfe to preferve their Friends, 
 ( they having a Salve for every Sore ) as that he fhall be a better 
 Man when he ends his Conteft, than when he began. 
 
 For by the Management of this Confederacy, by fuch undue Me- 
 thods, to prevent the Execution of the Law, as it carries off the 
 Tranlgreffor with Hying Colours, fo it tends to encourage every Liti- 
 gious Quaker to fla'nd it out with his Lawful Minifter, and bid 
 
 him 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 67 
 
 him do his worft, iS'c. So alfo has it been of very evil Confequence 
 to the Minifters, who many of them have great Charges to main- 
 tain, and imall Livings- and great part of that wrongfully de- 
 tain'd, by means of the laid Confederacy : I iliy, this has been, and ■ 
 in other Cafes will be, very pernicious to the Publick Peace, and 
 PoflelTion of Liberty and Property, if it be not prevented. 
 
 FIFTHLY,The like may be laid touching theStatute'of 22 of Gil. 
 For if in the Execution of that Act of Parliament, Cor any other] 
 thejuftices or Conftables made a wrong Step, if any Quaker get 
 - a Certificate from their Quarterly Meeting, fignifying his Faithful- 
 nels to their Church Canon -, in that Cafe made and provided, viz. 
 That he neither have FORSAKEN, DECLINED, or REMOV'D, his 
 Meeting, like the W oddly, Fearful, and Politick Pro feflors ; he 
 lhall either have his Caule lb managed, as to ride Triumphant, or 
 with Sam'. Cater, be plentifully rewarded-, who pretending he fuf- 
 fefd 20/. for preaching at Pbakenbam, in Norfolk, had 10 /. lent 
 him out of the common Bank, or London Fund, by John Peacock, late 
 of St. Ives, Woollen-Draper : Tho' after all, when Carers Bufinefs 
 came to be examin'd, he did not fufter a Groat : Yet fuch is the 
 Freenefs of this London Fountain, that Sam. did but pretend he liif- 
 fer'd 20 /. and he had 10 /. lent him, as an Encouragement to go 
 on. 
 
 SIXTHLY, Thofe Quakers which lollicite the Parliament are 
 Members of this Meetings,who derive their Authority and Licence Id 
 to do, from the Yearly Meeting, as above obfervd ; who, when the 
 Clergy -men are at home, minding their Cure, thinking themfelves 
 fife in their Callings, being by Law eftabliih'd, then are theQua- 
 kers working like Moles under Ground-, and loll kiting fometimes 
 againft Tythes, fometimes againft Colledges -, yea, againft the very- 
 Bells, as I mail Ihew from their ancient Teftimony, to which they 
 oft refer, and exhort others to keep up to it in all its parts; I lay, 
 that I may Ihew a Branch of their ancient Teftimony ^ I lhall recite 
 part of the Quakers Petition againft the Clergy, and their Mainte- 
 nance, fubferib'd by above ycco Perlbns, and deliver'd to the Parlia- 
 ment of England the 20th of July, 16^9. f and all their Petitions + Intituled, 
 fince, to this day, have fome Tintture of theLeven of this Petiti- several Papers 
 
 ' We whofe Hands are here underwritten, do teftitie and declare printed 1695. 
 c againft the OppreiTion of Tythes: The falfe Chriftians have fet 
 c up a Law and Commandment to take Tythes ; and fo the Com- 
 c mands of Men muft be difaiinull'd that take Tythes, and not to 
 * be obey'd by them that live in the Covenant of God : f And the + Mark their 
 ' unjuft Power that held them up.and Prieits, and Impropriators,and ancientjTiSfti- 
 c the Law, and Command, and the Author of it, not to be of God, nor mon y- 
 c of Chrift.— -1\ e warn you, which to you is the Word of the Lord 
 1 God, That all forced Maintenance of the Priefts be taken away ; 
 
 K 2 c for 
 
68 The Pilgrims Progrefi, 
 
 . p . _ ' for while fuchathingis let up, it will fpoil many idle Men, that 
 J Thrift c W ^ not threih, nor plant, nor dig, nor make Vineyards, Plow 
 Dig &c and c nor Sow, &c. P. 58. WE WOULD HAVE YOU TO READ 
 the k"^' w 'THESE THINGS, AND DO JUSTLY AS IT SPEAKS, f 
 ride on good t L ct the Impropriators who bought or rent their Tythes of 
 would 'p'eafe ' rhe Colledges, turn them up to the Colledges again, and let the 
 wondrous ' Colledges be taken away, that make Minifters, P. 50. And you 
 well. i may lell all the Gleab Lands, Kings Rents, and hisHoufes; and 
 
 * "^ 'the Bells to pay the Impropriators, who have bought the Tythes 
 
 * of Kings •, let their Rents and Parks be fold to pay them again : 
 ' And they that have bought them of Colledges, let the Gleab Lands 
 1 be fold to pay them. P. 63. If you do not take oft" Oppreffion, 
 
 * how fhould the Lord ftand by you, or the People of the Lord ei- 
 ' ther i if you query, how you fhould do with Impropriators ? 
 
 Anfia. ' Sell all the Gleab Lands, and the Bells, except one in a 
 
 ''Town, or two in a City, to give Notice of a Fire: And all the 
 
 ' late Kings Parks, and his Rents, that had Tenths ; and fold the 
 
 ' Tythes \ fo let them, /. e. the King's Parks and Rents be fold, 
 
 ' and the Colledges fold •, and all the Tythes that belong to them 
 
 ' thrown down. P. 65. You who are the Parliament of this Nati- 
 
 c on, you lhould have thrown down Tythes, which Abundance of 
 
 + Whatlmpu- <■ t h e fober People of the Nation hath petition'd you f to have taken 
 
 pretend 5 to" ' t ' iem awa y ' wn * cri y our voting them up, hath voted your felves 
 
 petition and ' out of the fober Peoples Affection of the Nation, among the Bruits ; 
 
 beg, yetteach ' you fhould have fold all the Gleab Lands, and Ibid all the Bells, 
 
 the Pariia- c f av i n g one in a Town-, and Colledges, and their Lands, and gi- 
 
 S what ' ven them a11 10 the Poor of the Nation. P. 68. And the Priefts 
 they fhould ' cry to you Magiftrates for Tythes, the Pope's Alms, and lie beg- 
 do. _ « ging with their Petitions at your Doors : f And we would have 
 tit was high- c y 0U maintain thefe begging Priefts fbme other way, than by the 
 rL n n Ce as well' Pope's Alms. P. 69. AND EXCEPT YOU TAKE COUNSEL 
 as 'tis now, < OF THE JUST, YOU SHALL NOT SIT.f 
 
 for fome to 
 
 kwifin ^ Ua " Reader^ I have recited enough of the gjtakers Petition againft 
 n +'ir> the Clergy, tofhew the Nature of their ancient Teftimony, and 
 pointed with a Finger <t? to two Sayings, which, with the reft, 
 are full of Impudence : And wheu againft the Clergy, I think I may 
 take their Word •, their whole Carriage and Deportment, both by 
 Word and Writing, do confirm it : But when for themfelves they 
 have any Favour to obtain, DISTRUST THEM IN ALL THEY 
 SAY, for they'll ftickat noPromife^ as in the Cafe of their Indul- 
 gence ; witnefs their Ackr.owledging the Holy Scriptures of the Old 
 and New Teftimoit to be given forth by Divine Infpi ration. That 
 it is the Rules of Faith and Practice, &c. whilft they believe not 
 one Word of what they themfelves fay •, and as a Demonftratiori 
 
 thereof, 
 
From Quakerifm to Christianity. 69 
 
 thereof, I (hall recite one of their Epiftles, fent to the Monthly and 
 Quarterly Meetings, (hewing their Care of their own Books : Nay, 
 them very Books, which teach, that the Scripture are Death, Duft, 
 Beaftly Ware, Serpents Food, &c. Therefore, " 
 
 From the Meeting of Sufferings in London .f t Renewed 
 
 Advice to the 
 , _ . , -Monthly and 
 
 Dear Ynends, Quarterly 
 
 1 With our dear Love in the Truth unto you all, thefe are to let Meetings in 
 £ you underftand, that our Friends have at feveral YEARLY MEET- **f""' and 
 
 * INGS, had under their ferious Confideration, how all thofe Books ^eferVine 
 
 ' that are printed for the Service of Truth, and in the Unity of andfpreadine 
 « Friends, might MOST EFFECTUALLY be SPREAD for a ge- FriendsBooks 
 « neral Service to Truth; and at the laft YEARLY MEETING it£ or T ra ** 
 c was left unto this Meeting, who accordingly have taken Care t ^ V1 ,"' " 
 i and Pains therein, and fettled as followeth. 
 
 1 That thofe that print Friends Books, (hall the firft Opportu- 
 nity after, printed, within one Month at raoft, fend to one of the 
 f Correfpondents in the Counties, viz. 
 
 ( For your County, two Books of a fort for each Monthly Meet- 
 ' ing in your County, if under Six Pence, and but one of a fort, if 
 ' above Six Pence per Book, for thefe Reafons. 
 
 1/?, For Friends to have general Notice what Book are printed. 
 
 idly. That they may fend for what other Quantities they fee a Ser- 
 c vice for : And, 
 
 ^dly. * That the Printer may be encouraged in Printing. for 
 1 Friends. 
 
 qthly. c That one Book at leaft of a fort that fhall be printed, For a Quaker 
 c may be kept in each Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, for the Ser- L ibr » rv - 
 
 * vice of Truth and Friends, as there fhall be occafion, for the fu- 
 c ture : And as 'twas agreed at the laft YEARLY MEETING, 1 692. 
 1 in the Printed Epiftle. 
 
 yhly. ' It is agreed, that for Encouragement, the Printer will al- 
 c low 2 d. in the Shilling for all fuch Books. 
 
 6th/y. ' It's agreed, that fbme here fhall be appointed, that two 
 ' or three Weeks before each Quarter-day, to examine the Printer, 
 ' to lee that they fends no Books but what are approved by Friends, 
 ' and no more than two of a fort, as aforefaid, except the Friends in 
 ' the Country fhall write for more, which it's hoped they will not 
 1 fail in f, as they fee a Service for them. + I have 
 
 jtbly> c It's agreed or advifed, that the Printers Accompts be ful- h ^ td , tf ? ar 
 c ly clear'd once a Year at leaft, by thofe Friends the Country fhall a^ and fend 
 1 fend up to the Yearly Meeting. but'flowly, 
 
 %tbly. ' It's agreed, that the Name of the Printer, imploy'd by 
 ' Friends, fhould be fent with Directions how to write to him. 
 
 And 
 
ft The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 And dear friends and Brethren, 
 
 ' It's tenderly, and in Brotherly Love, advifed and recommended 
 
 ' unto you, that ye be careful and diligent in the SPREADING of 
 
 ' ALL Fuch Books that are printed for the Service of Truth, and are 
 
 Not a word c either written in DEFENCE of it, or Chriftian Doctrine, or Holy 
 
 oi the Bible. < p ro feliion, or by way of Epiftle, Warning, Caution, Exhortation, 
 
 ( ' or Prophefie-, that id we may not be any way, or in any wife, Re- 
 
 ' mils or Negligent, in promoting that Holy and Eternal Truth it hath 
 
 1 pleafed Almighty God to blefs us with the Knowledge of j and hath 
 
 ' raifed us up to ftand W itnefTes for in our Age and Generation •, nor 
 
 ' nothing may be wanting on our parts, to promote it,and the fpread- 
 
 ' ing of it. 
 
 Signed on the Behalf of the Meeting for Suf- 
 ferings in London, 18. 6. Mo. 16^3. 
 
 By Benj. Beaming. 
 
 Poflfcript. c And this Agreement and Account herein lent, we 
 c think it needful you fhould record it in your Quarterly Book, and 
 ' fomerimes read it for Remembrance, and general Notice. 
 
 Obfcrvations from heme. 
 
 Header. From what hath been faid, you may obferve, F/r/?, 
 That there is fuch a Meeting as I have fet forth ; both from their 
 Yearly, and the recited Six Week Meeting, in cafe the Quakers de- 
 ny it. Secondly, That their Bufinefs principally is to take care of 
 the Sufferings of their own Friends, and that how plentifully they re- 
 ward fuch as are faithful to their Church Canons ; as in the inftance 
 dFSam. Cater, who for pretending to fuffer 2c /. tho' he fuffered not 
 a Groat, yet had 10/. lent him, as a Reward for meeting boldly, 
 contrary to the Law in that cafe made and provided. Thirdly, 
 That they have a Fund, or Common Bank, and that the Accounts 
 are examined by a Committee chofen out of the Yearly Meeting for 
 that purpofe. Fourthly, That fuch as fuffer for Non-payment of 
 Tythes, are to fend to the Quarterly-Meetings Correfpondents, left 
 t As in the t!ie * r Sufferings be delayed. Fifthly, You may alfo perceive, what 
 inftance of a Confederacy is held by the Quakers, and how they are inabled by 
 Mr. Holtman, their E xchequer, to hold Suit with both Pricft and I in proprietor f. 
 who was a Sixthly, You alio may fee, how the Quakers follicite the Parliament 
 PncT,°l ^rFa'wurs; as alfo, how they Petition againft the Clergy, the 
 GcrttfiJeftdrit Churches, the Colledges, and Bells too: Yea, this is according to 
 L*w; yec their ancient Teltimony, and they are not changd, they tell you fb, 
 *"•*■ as 1 have herein before obferved. And Laftly, You may by this re- 
 
 cited Epiftle, ublerve the Confederacy of their Yearly-Meeting, and 
 Six-Weeks Meeting, to fpread their venemous Books, to infect both 
 
 Youth 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. ?i 
 
 Youth and Aged, Male and Female, Old and Young, and all under 
 the fine Notion of the Service of Truth, [meaning Quakerifm : ] 
 For, if they.meant the Truth of the Chriftian Do&rine, they would « 
 
 at one time or other, read a Chapter in their Meetings •, at one time 
 or other, recommend to their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, the 
 reading of lome Portion of the Holy Scriptures : But not a word of 
 this in their Epiftles, not a Chapter read in their Meetings for forty 
 Years together ; but their own Epiftles, their own Prophefies, their 
 own Printed Exhortations : Thele they not only read in their pri- 
 vate Meetings in their Families, but they muft Record (you fee,) this 
 recited Epiftle in their Quarterly-Book, and fbmetimes read it : Oh ! 
 'tis a precious Epiftle. 
 
 And now Chriftian Reader, I cannot but think myfelf unable to 
 give a full and ccmpleat Caution, againft the fpreading of the Gan- 
 grene of Quakerifm \ and therefore, give me leave in the Words of 
 Mr. Ralph banner, a Minifter, formerly of Brijfol, to rehearfe part 
 of his Exhortation, vis. 
 
 1 Now beloved, if thou be'ft a Chriftian •, What fay'ft thou > Is j n f,; s b 00 Jc ( 
 c not here a Myftery of Ungodlinefs to the purpofe 1 Where was it i. e. r*t Myji. 
 c hatch'd, think'ft thou ? Could any lefs than all the Devils in Hell, ofUngtMiMji, 
 ' keep a Conventicle, to Contrive and Plot this Black and Hellifh &c- 
 c Treafon, againft the Maiefty of God, Jefus Chrift, and the Holy 
 ' Scriptures > Oh ! ye Chriftian Magiftrates , who rule for Chrift, 
 
 * and to whom you thall one day give an account of your Govern- 
 c ment, how you have ruled for him, and how tender you have been 
 
 * of his Honour : What is become of your Zeal for Chrift, and his 
 c Glory ? Good Sirs ! if thele wretched Souls have fuch Liberty of 
 'Confidence, to think thus contemptuouily of our Bleffed Lord Jcfus 
 ' Chrift, and the Holy Gofpel, let them not (upon pretence of Liber- 
 c ty of Confidence,) be fb audacioufly Blafphemous, to write and 
 ' ipeak thus : And, O ye Servants of the Lord, mv Fathers and 
 'Brethren in the Miniftry of our dear and ever BleiTcd Jefas, you 
 ' that are the Paftor's of the Lord's Flock, and the Watchmen for the 
 ' Sheep of his Pafture, lift up your Voices, andfparenot-, cry aloud 
 ' to all your Congregations, and fore-warn them, that they be not a 
 ' Prey to Satan's Devices ; let the Wolves know, that you are not 
 c dumb DogSj and cannot bark ; and Idol-Shepherds, that can nei- 
 ' ther hear, nor fee, nor underftand any thing ; and that at a time 
 ' of need can lay nothing ^ certainly, certainly, fuch as thefe may ill 
 ' look for their Gain •, from their Quarters they deferve it not ; who, 
 ' fb they may be fed, care not (nor care to difcover) what devouring 
 ' Beaft comes to deftroy the Flock of Chrift : But you, my dear 
 'Brethren, who are fet over the Lord's Folds, and who watch for 
 ' their Souls, as thofe that muft give an account T and that have a de- 
 ' fire to do it with joy, and for the profit of your People ; read and 
 
 ' pracf ile 
 
The Pilgrim's Progrefs, 
 
 c 
 
 the Lord J ejus Chrijl, whojhall judge the Oguick and the Dead, at 
 -his Appearing and Kingdom, preach the Word, be ml] ant in Sea- 
 Jon, out ofSeafon, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all Long-fuffer- 
 
 i?ig and Doctrine; for the time will come \_and it is nouf\ when they 
 Jhall not endure found Dottrine, but after their own Lifts (hall they 
 ' heap to themfelve's Teachers, having itching Ears • and they Jhall 
 *• turn away iheir Ears Jrom the Truth, and Jhall be turned unto Fa- 
 r 5 but icatch thou in all things; endure Afflictions-, dothcuok 
 ' of an Evangeliji, (or Go/pel Preacher ; ) make full Proof of thy 
 "Mi, lift ry, &c." 
 
 CHAP. XI. 
 
 Shews the Quakers Sceoncl-Day Meetings, and Hypocri/ie thereof '5 
 with its ill Confequences, in order to Deceive. 
 
 I 
 
 Reader, 
 
 AM now come to their Second-Day Meeting, even to that 
 Meeting where Satan dwells, and where he employs his arch- 
 eft Emiffaries •, I (hall not wrong them, as believing I muft 
 one day give an account for my Aftions, before the Man Chrift 
 Jefus, who fhall judge both the Quick and Dead at the Great Day, 
 where (I hope,) 1 fhall not be afraid to meet G. Whitehead with this 
 Teftimony in my hand ; fo on the other hand, I fhall not fpare them, 
 hide nor cover them, who have by their Wiles, by their Books of 
 two forts, deceived the Nations, deceived many of the Magiftrates, 
 many of the Clergy, nay, myfelf-, for I could not have write thus 
 t No, if I had fifteen Years ago f : I took them then, at leaft fome Years before, 
 not feen their to be Prophets, at leaft fincere, and to meet there, for the approving 
 deceitful Pra- of what was Right, Sound and Orthodox, and for condemning the 
 ftices, and contral y : But behold, I have found the contrary, and that by fad 
 thereby tne Experience ; yea, I have found, that their whole Bufinefs, is to 
 Scriptures, I deceive, and to carry on a Defign ; yea, a Confederacy, under the 
 could not fine Notion ofUnity and Concord : I have laboured many Years, 
 have known un ^ er g reat Difficulties; I have fpentmy Eftate, I have fpent my 
 t iem ng t y. j^^^ j g row j nt0 Years ; I have a Confcience to Difcharge 5 I 
 think [cannot do it, unlefsf compleatthat Difcovery which I have 
 began :_Tho I find it prejudicial to my Health, and other Bufinefs, 
 I find my Of confeientioufly concerned in this weighty Atiair : I do 
 know, that the Reverend Author of the Book, Entituled, The Snake 
 
 in 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 7 j 
 
 in the Grafs, t &c. have done exceeding well ; he hath done beyond * To whofe 
 what I am able to do •, 'tis a Learned Piece, and becomes a Learned ^ or JjP l l e ~ 
 Reader : But I am dire&ing the greateft part of what I lay, to the d e e r r " 
 
 more unlearned; f to fuch (whether Quakers or others,) as fbme- . .' t « e 
 times muft Spell as they read, and read over and over, before they Common 
 can understand ; this makes me fometimes write over and over the People, tfho 
 fame thing, to inculcate, (if poffible,) the Matter lam upon, into are "°t fo 
 their Heads, that at la ft they may underftand, as well as to lay a^J-nU 
 Foundation for Abler Pens. This then, I thought fit to premife by 
 way of Introduction, tffc. 
 
 This Meeting of the Quakers is held every Second-Day of the 
 Week, (which we call Monday,) throughout the Year in London ; 
 the Members of it are the Teachers of the Quakers redding in and 
 about London ; whereof G. Fox, f (in his life time) was the Prin- ♦ For he fcU 
 cipal, and G. Whitehead now, as I am given to underftand. The do . 1 " '£.«* 
 Meeting formerly was kept in Ellis Hook's Chamber in Lumbar d- y^ e £' 
 ftrect, nowlprefume in Grace-Chxrch-fireet. This Meeting doth kept at lew- 
 much reiemble His Majefty's Privy Council : For the King, by and don. 
 with the Advice of his Privy Council, can do many things ; he can 
 bv Proclamation, put the Laws in Execution ; I think, he can pro- 
 claim War, and make Peace : So can this Meeting •, they can quick- 
 en the coming in of Money, granted by the Yearly Meeting ; they can 
 iffue out their Proclamation for a War, againft the Minifters of any 
 Society •, they can alter, and change any Meffage, ftop any Prophe- 
 fie, ftifle any Revelation, filence the Voice uttered by the Spirit of 
 the Lord, thro' their moft eminent Prophets, in what refpeft they 
 pleafe, and make it ipeak louder and more fhrii, where they think 
 there is moft Service, or may be more conducive to their Defign; 
 they are like the Helm to the Ship, which turn it which way the Pi- 
 late pleafe-, they are the Wheel within the Wheel, which move all 
 the whole Work, yet fo invifibly, as few ihall know how, and fewer 
 know who; for they are Perfons uncertain and accidental, and can- 
 not be chargeable (by Name,) for any Errour, tho' guilty of every Er- 
 rour in their Books, fo far as Content, Approbation and Recommen- 
 dation can make them ; For all Books Printed and Reprinted, pals 
 thfo' the fiery Tryal of their Infallible Examination ; they Govern,they 
 Rule, they fteer the Veflel, but all INVISIBLY; they pay their Mi- 
 nifters, butrheir own People (many of them) that give to their Col- 
 lections and Contributions, do not know it-, nor, if'you tell them of 
 it, will they believe it : For none can tell, who pays, nor who re- 
 ceives, but now and then by chance, what fome or other, as Elhcood 
 blabb'd it out at unawares : But their principal Work is, to Approve 
 and Licenfo their Books, Printed for the Service of the Truth, as 
 they phrafe it : But the laft being their moft principal Verb , I 
 ihall the more infift upon it, toihew their moft horrible Deceit and 
 
 L Hypocriiie, 
 
74 The Pilgrims Progreft> 
 
 Hypcr'the: For, fuppofe one of cheto People pretend he is moved 
 of the Lord, by his Eternal Spirit, to Write a Meflage or Warning 
 to the Inhabitants ofBriU. /, with this Title 5 THIS IS THE 
 WORD OF THE LORD, TO THEE, O BRISTOL' Well, 
 this Book is lint up to their Second-Day Meeting, and there they 
 take it into confidention 5 they then will Alter, and Change Words 
 and Sentences ; put in, and leave out, what they conceive felt beft 
 with the Times; and yet, let it go as THE WORD OF THE 
 LORD. Thus do they lit in the Judgment-Seat, and like the Old 
 Prophet, deceive ■ pot only the Nations, but the poor young Pro- 
 phet, that thought he had Wrote from the Infallible Motion ; when 
 alas! 'tis now iaabfcr'd, lb added to, and diminiih'd from, what it 
 was, that it's meetly Calculated to the defignofthe Cabal, and yet 
 lhall go with the fame Title, t. e. THIS IS THE WORD Of 
 THE LORD, TO THEE, O BRISTOL! of this moft horri- 
 ble Deceit I could give a hundred Inftances , and find Matter e- 
 nough for to write a Book by it felf butlmuftconfult Brevity, left 
 my Pen out-run my Penny ; and therefore, fhali fingle out one In- 
 ftance, which I hope, will give fome fatisfacfion •, it ihall be out of 
 a Book wrote by Edward Burroughs Entituled, A Trumpet of the 
 'Printed in Lor J 'funded out oj Sion, founding forth the Controverjie of the 
 
 Quarto, 1656. £, ,.,/ tfHofts, * &C. 
 
 But before I go to the chief Matter intended. I Ihall recite the 
 pretended Commiffion of this bold Prophet; and then it will appear, 
 whether the Second-Day Meeting did well, in altering his Prophehe, 
 by adding to, and taking from the lame •, for, either they did believe 
 him to be a Prophet, that the Word of the Lord did come to him as 
 exprefly as to Jeremiah, Ezekicl, Daniel, and the reft of the Pro- 
 prietor they did not ; ifthey did, how then dare they add and dimi- 
 nifh and leave out.in the Reprint 0! his Works, what had gone for the 
 Word of the Lord, from i<?5<5 to 1672? If they did not believe him 
 to be a Prophet divinely Inlpifd, but an Impoftor, Why did they 
 fuffer the faid Book to go as THE WORD OF THE LORD, from 
 1656 to 1 6j2 ? So take it which way they will, and it will appear, 
 rhat G. Whitehead, (whole Epiftle of Recommendation is pre- 
 r\\'d and Printed to Edvo. Burroughs Works,) and others of this 
 Second- Day Meeting, are moft horrible Cheats, and grand Decei- 
 vers 1 And therefore, now to the Commiiiion which Edw.Burroughs 
 received ; which, to G. W. and others, that believed it, was both Au- 
 thentick and Subftantial, viz. 
 
 * By Order and Authority given unto me by the Spirit of the Li- 
 c vingGod, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, the 31ft. Day of the 
 1 Tenth Month, 1655. about the 4th. hour in the Morning, when 
 *my Meditations was of mv God, upon my Bed, in the Kilkenny 
 ■ City, in the Nation of Ireland; at that time THE WORD OF 
 
 l THE 
 
From Quaker ifm to Chriftianity. 7% 
 
 'THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, faying, Write my Controver- 
 ' fie with ail the Inhabitants of the Earth, unto all forts of People; 
 c as I will fhew thee by this fame Authority and Commiflion de- 
 c clared : This I fend unto you the Tribes of the Earth, and this 
 ' upon yout Heads ihall ftand forever, to be witneffed by the Light 
 « of Chrift Jefus in all your Confciences, in the dreadful Day of 
 ' Vengeance, which upon you, Inhabitants of the Earth ! is'coming. 
 ' Prepare, prepare, to meet the Lord. O Nations, Tongues and 
 c People ! unto you all hereby a Warning is come ; and a Vifitation 
 ' From the Prefence of the Living God, which you are ftraitly requi- 
 ' red to put in Practice, as at the terrible Day of dreadful Vengeance 
 ' you will anfwer the contrary. 
 
 Given under my Hand, andfealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God^ 
 who lives for ever, thro a Servant of the Lord, E. Burrough. 
 
 Thus, Reader, you fee the Commiflion which Edw. Burrough re- 
 ceiv'd ; (whether counterfeit or not, is not my prefent Bufinefs, ) 
 which was forthwith Printed in ^iiarto, arid lent up and down the 
 Nation, as THE WORD OF THE LORD, and as fuch received 
 by thoufands of us, and to be fure, approvd of by the Second-Day 
 Meeting-, yet when the Times chang'd, and the Second-Day Meet- 
 ing came to Reprint the feveral Prophecies and Revelations of this 
 remarkable Prophet Edw. Burrough, amongft the reft, you will find 
 this Book, {tiled, The Trumpet of the Lordfounded, 6 v c. reprinted 
 in the Works of Edw. Burrough *. And, » s ee £ B » & 
 
 Firfl, To thee Oliver Cromive I, and his Council. Works, p. 97. 
 
 i 2dly.. To all Judges and Lawyers, and their Train. 
 
 ^dly, To all Aftrologers, Magicians, 0V. 
 
 itthly, To all Generals, Collonels, Commanders, OV. 
 
 To all theie four forts, the Reprint has it with fome little variati- 
 on i indeed, enough to fpoil the Predictions ; which, had they been 
 true, ought not to hive been added to, nor taken from. And the Se- 
 cond-Day Meeting in 1 672. pretended to believe them to be true, by 
 their Title in the Index, viz. A Trumpet of the Lord founded forth 
 of Si on, which containeth aTcfiimony from the Word of the Lord. 
 But behokf ai;d be aflrnifhed at "the deceit of thefe Jugglers, /'. c. the 
 Second-Day Mecters ; for the fifth Prophefie, directed thus, To all 
 you mho are, and have been always Enemies to the very Appearance 
 of Right eoufnefs, who are called 'Delinquents and Cavaliers ; I lav, 
 this whole fifth Prophefie is left out in the Reprint, 'tho' as pofitive- 
 ly avowed to be the Word of the Lord as the other, as cercainly feal- 
 ed by the Spirit of the Eternal God as the other, and every way Au- 
 thorized by as ample a Commiflion from the Spirit of the living God, 
 yea, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, as the other ^ and yet all 
 left out in the Reprint. And to make it appear fo beyond all their 
 gloffing, I fhall recite it verbatim, as it follows the preceding Title 
 and Direction. L 2 To 
 
7 6 The Filgrinfs Frogrefi y 
 
 To the Delinquents and Cavaliers. 
 c Thus frith the Lord, my Controverfie is againft you, even my 
 ' Hand in Judgment, is upon you already ; and you are become curled 
 Pag. 9. in i in all your Hatchings and Endeavours, and from time to time my 
 Impreffion ' H aiM i hath ^ en againft you in Bartel ; and you have been, and are 
 pcinteJi656. c given U P t0 De a P rcv t0 y our Enemies ; for the purpofe and intents 
 ' of your Hearts, have been known always to be againft the Form of 
 'Truth, and much more againft my powerful Truth it felt": And be- 
 * caule you attempted to take my Throne, ( Confidence.) therefore I 
 4 rofe in my Fury againft you, and will have War with all your Fol- 
 ' lowers herein forever, who ihall attempt to take my Throne, (Cdn- 
 ' fcience •, ) and tho' my Hand hath been evidently againft you, yet 
 1 to this Day, you remain in Rebellion in your Minds, in hatching 
 Mte, All 'Murder and Cruelty in your wicked Hearts : And tho' your Kings 
 this to the ' and Princes have been cut off in Wrath, and your cruel defperate 
 Delinquents, 'Inventions, and Plots of Wickednefs (conceived in your curfed 
 th e, Reorint ' Womb,) have been broken, and you cut fhort in your Defires; 
 t 5* cprinc ' ' y et you repent not, nor will not fee, how you are given up to be a 
 c Cuile, and a Delegation, and a Prey, in Houfls, and Lands, and Per- 
 ' ions, to them whom 1 raifed againft you,and gave Power over you, 
 ' yet you arehardned-, andyourCruelry in Periecution againft my Ser- 
 c vants, cannot be meafuredi where you have any Power, you finite 
 'with the Fill of Wickednefs, and count it your Glory todefpiiemy 
 ' Name : In the Valleys of vain Hopes do you feed, and on the. 
 4 Mountains of foolifh Expectations-, and conceive in your cruel 
 4 Womb of Tyranny, the overthrow of the Nations ; but in the, 
 c bringing forth, your felves are overthrown : And it is not for well- 
 ' doing that you fuller, but my Hand is againft you, and my Judg- 
 tThenfome c m ^ nls a re-upon you-, arid, exceptyou Repenr,ffhall continue upon 
 Wh" then' c Earth with you, and follow you, and purfue you to the Lake of 
 fliouU nor ' DeftrucY on, where there is no Repentance ; and you, and your 
 this have < Kings, and Lordly Power, (by which you have thought to exercife 
 hee «A for "heir ' Lordihipover my Heritage,) fhall beenflaved by the Devil.inthe 
 good? " IC ; Pit of Darknefs. in everlafting Bondage, where he Qthe DeviUj 
 ' fhall Reign your King and Lord for evermore. 
 
 From whence it is evident, That tho' this Prophefie was raid to be 
 
 as true as any Chapter in the Bible ; yea, that the Word of the Lord 
 
 came to Euro ugh the 31/?. of December^ 1655. at the fourth hour 
 
 in the Morning, and lealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God -, yet 
 
 this Second Day Meeting hath, or claim to have a Power fuperiour, 
 
 and by Virtue thereof, can fiJence the Prophet, ftifle his Prophefie, 
 
 jtmuftbe- cancel his Revelation, and null and make void his Commiffion; for, 
 
 Xeaiortkmnr^s I ft id-, they either believed his CommiUion to be REAL, or 
 
 tttfeit. COUNTERFEIT-, if REAL, as fo they always pretended, then, 
 
 Is it not great Wickedhefs that it fhould be thus fmothered up and. 
 
 iiitled, iince, tho' the Delinquents and Cavaliers be very wicked, 
 
 yet 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 77 
 
 yet upon Repentance, there leemsto be fome hopes, which now this 
 
 Prophefie cannot be inftrumental in, fince the Second-Day Meeting 
 
 hath buried it in Oblivion, in that they did not Reprint it with the • 
 
 reft of the lame Book in his Works, in folio ? t If COUNTERFEIT, \ Primed i6n 
 
 What wicked Wretches were thefe Members of the Second-Day 
 
 Meeting, in id 50% to Piint it in Ugjarto as the Word of the Lord, 
 
 and fealed by the Spirit of the Eternal God, and thereupon, and as 
 
 fuch, fent it up and down to us, to deceive us, by recommending a 
 
 COUNTERFEIT Commiffion for a REAL? Thus, let them take 
 
 it which way they will, and it is wicked in the fuperlative Degree. 
 
 But this is not all-, it Ihew'd their Cowardize and Temperizing; 
 for this w a., vrote in 0. Sromucl s time, defigned, I perceive, to curry 
 Favour with hup and to ihew himfelf and his Brethren,the Quakers 
 are Enemies tc Monarchy : But when it was Reprinted, it was done 
 in K. Charles J . ' , cord's time ■, and then they wheel d about, com- 
 plain'dor' 0. QremweU and ftettefd the King, Cavaliers, and Court- 
 Party •, and then this Prophefie, icaled never fo ftrong, revealed ne- 
 ver lb clear, th^ -cry Day, Month and Year fpecified, nay, the ve- 
 ry Hoar in the M. et (as I have laid,) it not fuiting with the 
 Defigi: ob toot, namely, 1 '-> i x>t out Chriftianity,and introduce Qua- 
 kerifin. it muft be iufpended, (titled and buried. Thus then it ap- 
 pears, how wickedly deceitful are thefe Second-Day Meeters, who 
 can thus prevaricate and dilfemble with God and Man-, of which, I 
 could give many Inihncts. but rather refer to 'The Snake in the Grafs, 
 &c. which doth molt amply let forth their turning with the Times, 
 and their facing about with every W ind that might feem to blow 
 a profperous Gale for the Advance of Quakerifm, &V. 
 
 But to conclude, or rather confirm this Head, and to fhew what 
 Temporizes thefe Quakers have been, as well as knowingly Wick- 
 ed, thefe Second-Day Meeters ever (from firft to laft) were ; letme 
 add one Citation more, as it lyes diiperled in a Book of Edic. Bur- 
 rough's, Printed in Quarto, 16^9. containing feveral Letters written, 
 and faid.ta be delivered to 0. Gromwel,Anno 1657. and fome Letters- 
 laid to be delivered to R. CromvceLAnno 1658. then Protestor : BUT 
 I DISTRUST ALL THEY SAY fi for having compared this * So cannot- 
 Qttirto Book, I find many places which mentions the King, or the bidder v^ 7 
 Kingly Government, left out in his Works in folia • which Words fo t h ern as " 
 left out, you will find them in Capital Letters,which,as it fliews their Printed, fince 
 Temporizingfoitdifcovers their Wickednefstoftifie Proprieties, if after Printed' 
 they believ d them fuch to be ; if not, ftill as wicked to let this Bur- z ^*$£ 
 rough in his Works, ftill go for a Prophet, and by Whitehead,Coale, 
 Howgill and fox, &e. recommended as fuch ; I do fay, it is fuch a gw cw*/ 
 depth of Hy pocrifie. that I want Words to let it forth fufficiently. a nd Advice re*. > 
 
 P. 1 5. ' And thefe things are not right in the fight of the Lord,>#^. Print- 
 'that fuch who have been for many Years faithful in the Service, e ^ »"&'<"''»> 
 'and in their Truft, and hazarded Life and Liberty for Confcience- p ti 5 nted £ 
 
 1 lake, fdiit, 1672. 
 
78 
 
 tOh! how 
 the Quakers 
 did flatter 
 O. Cromwel TO 
 
 get into Offi- 
 ces, yea, Ju- 
 frices for- 
 
 footh. 
 
 t Oliver did 
 not much va- 
 lue his new 
 Saints, /. :•. 
 Quakers. 
 
 • The Pilgrims Progrejl, 
 
 1 fike,which they cannot now poflels, becauie ofthee (Dear Oliver^ 
 
 * but ate caft out for the exerciie of their pure Conicience ; conlider 
 ' or it, tor this makes the Nation more unhappy ,and leis blelTed.,when 
 c iuch who delight in true Juiliceand Judgment, are caft out of their 
 ' Places, f and lo deprived of giving their Judgment amongft Men ; 
 ' and abfblutely this will make thy Army lefs proiperous, when fuch 
 ' who tear the Lord, againft whom thou canft not iuftly charge no 
 ' Evil, arc caft out and defpisd, and this in time, thou may'ft fee 
 ' to thy Sorrow -, and as thy Friend, Hay this before thee, and do in 
 ' plainneis tell thee, If thou thus utterly deny the People of God in 
 ' the Day of thy Proiperity, and thou thus wholly caft them out of 
 ' thy Service, they cannot ftand by thee, nor own thee in the Day of 
 ' thy Trouble •, f p. 1 6. when as fuch who feareth the Lord, are caft 
 ' out of Judicatories in thy Government, and out of Defence in thy 
 ' Armies : What, is this the end of that long Travel in Wars, and of 
 
 * 16 many Promifes of Liberty of Conicience, that iuft Men lhould 
 t thus be dealt withal , as one without Bowels of Compafiion, unto 
 ' fuch who have truly ferved with thee in a faithful Service for the 
 ' Common- Wealth , who many of them now are grievous Sufferers 
 'under thee? P. 17. Many Enemies thou haft which watch over 
 ' thee, C 0. C. } for Evil, and not for Good : — Firft,There is a People 
 c fcattered thro' all thefe Nations, who is full of Wrath towards 
 'thee, EVEN OF THOSE KNOWN BY NAME MALIG- 
 
 t Oh! how 'NANTS, f in whole Hearts, to this day, there is continual Ha- 
 carefu the < tred againft thee,and all thy OfF-fpring-, — Daily Advantage they 
 ■ leek againft thee, by fecretPlottingsof Malicioulnefs in their EVIL 
 'Hearts, feeking by all means, ifitbepoliible, how to be avenged, 
 'and to revenge themfelves, and THE CAUSE OF THEIR KING, 
 ' with no better purpofe,than to deftroy thee-, — Such is the-Cruelty 
 'and Defperatenefs of iome of them, their own Lives are not dear 
 'unto them, to take away thine ; I have felt the ftrength of their 
 ' Rage againft thee, which carries them above SenfeorFear, to fore- 
 ' go any Danger, that they may fee their dehred end of thee ; their 
 ' Malice tow-ards thee, isfofeated in their wrathful Hearts, that it 
 ' cannot eafily be quenched : I know the Lord hath CURSED them 
 ' and their Endeavours to this day, and thou haft had Dominion and 
 'Power given thee of God, to break them in pieces-, AND WHAT 
 'THOU HAST DONE TO THFIR KING, SHOULD NOT 
 ' BE RECKONED AGAINST THEE BY THE LORD, t IF 
 •NOW THOU ART FAITHFUL TO WHAT HE REQUIRES 
 v OF THLE, /•. 20. Tho' we the People of God, doth not envy thy 
 ' Perlbn nor Government, — yet Friend, the want ufour Prayers to 
 ' God for thee, is vvorfeto thee than the fccret Plotting of all wicked 
 ' Men : And how can we mention thee in our Prayers to God for 
 ' thee, except it be to be Deliver'd from thee. 
 
 To 
 
 Quakers were 
 of their Dear 
 Friend Q. C. 
 
 + Murder ac- 
 quitted, if 
 O. C. would 
 but (land by 
 the Quakers. 
 
( 
 
 From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 79 
 
 To this agrees that Saying of G. Fax to Mr. Cmclfeild, a Mini- 
 fter, in his Book, i.e. Truths Defence, &c. p. 15. 'No Prayers can 
 ' we fend to thee^ but for thy Deftru£Kon, thou Man of Sin, and 
 ' Enemy cf Chrift, Hfc. No, neither ro Oliver their Governour, nor 
 to the Pt iefts • no, they cannot pray for their Enemies, unlefs they 
 do Kindnefs tor them, /. e. make them Juilices or Commanders •, no, + Is that the 
 no Penny, (or what's Equivalent,) no Pater Kojicr from the Qlu- Reafon they'l 
 kers.) See the Margin t. . . L"Sni. 
 
 P. 21. 'And this I have written to thee, out or perfect Love m 
 'the Fear of God: -—.And if thou could'ft own them, (i.e. Qua- 
 kers, thcv would own thee in the Face of all thy Enemies. 
 
 P. 3 5.' to Richard. « AS CONCERNING THY WAR, 
 'AND ARMIES ABROAD IN SPAIN, SOMETHING 
 'THERE IS IN IT * KNOWN TO THE LORD: — 'Something; 
 ♦MAKE NO COVENANT WITH IDOLATERS, BUT?" 1 who 
 'TREAD DOWN THEIR IDOL GODS, WHICH tCE 
 'THEY HAVE SET UP, AND HEW DOWN THEIR «k«Gi P fi^ 
 'MOUNTAINS, IN WHICH THEIR CONFIDENCE p 
 'STAND, AND PLOW UP THEIR GROUND, THAT 
 'THE St CD MAYBE SOWN AFTER THEE; IT'S 
 'HONOUR ENOUGH TO BE THE LORDS PLOW- 
 ' MAN. P. 44. And if thou walk with the Lord, and preferve his 
 ' People (/'. e. Quakers) that fear him, then fhalt thou proiper, and 
 c thy Name (hall be greater than was thy Fathers^ and the number- 
 'lefs Number of this now diftrefled People, will be unto thee a 
 c Strength, and ftand by thee in thy day of Trouble, and defend 
 ' thee and thy juft Government, f and their Hearts fhall cleave unto t Then R/<i>; 
 ' rhee, and thou i halt profper for their lakes, and none of rhy Ene- o-o»jjwi'sGo- 
 1 mies fhall have Power over thee. P. 53. And as for thy Father,the vernment 
 ' late Prote&or, great things did the Lord do for him, in railing him T* s A u \ in 
 ' up, and calling out his Enemies before him, and giving him Vitto- Account 
 ' ry, Renown and Power, t thro' Nations; and we know, the Lord + brave 
 1 Ihewed favour to him, and gave him Strength, Wifdom and Va- o//w > th* 
 
 * lour, and a right Spirit ; and he was called of God, into that great Quakers 
 'Work, to fubdue the grievous Tyrannies, once ruling over tender Champion. 
 ' Confciences, and to break down the great Oppreffions which had 
 
 * cauied the Juft to Groan ; and the Lord was with him in Vi£lory, 
 
 * and prelerved him from great Dangers. 
 
 Obfervations on the recited Quotitiion. 
 
 Reader, pleafe to obferve, Firft, That the Words in Capital Let- 
 ters were Printed in the Quarto Book, 165?. and left out in the Re- 
 print 
 
$o The Pilgrim's Vrogrefs, 
 
 Srint in Folio, 1 67 2.which (hews theirTemporizing •, and like Butter- 
 ies, how they hide themfelves,whilft the danger of the Storms are 
 paft. 2dly,Their wickednefs in leaving out fuch Prophefies,if real ; if 
 counterfeit,then as bad to fuffe-r them to go abroad fo long, to deceive 
 others, jdly, How they pleaded their being in the Army, and their 
 faithfulnefs to their Truft therein, as meritorious of their continu- 
 ance in the Army for the defence of the Nation, as well as their de- 
 t Oh! they'd lire of being in Offices in the Adminiftrationof Juftice. f But hold ! 
 s»ad!y be Ju- Oliver, as he did not believe their Proprieties, fo he would not truft 
 ftices of the them in either Military or Civil Affairs. 4-thly, You may fee how 
 Pe»ce. they did cling to 0. Cromcel, and next to Richard, juftifying their 
 
 Ufurpation. 5thly, How they acquitted 0. Crcmvcel in that horrible 
 Murder of K. Charles I. laying, That if he would but ftand by, che- 
 rifti and iupport Quakerifm, WHAT HE DID TO THE LATE 
 KING,SHOULD NOT BE LAID TO HIS CHARGE BY THE 
 LORD, dthly, And, that if he would not do fo, they could not pray 
 for him, and that fhould be worfe to him than all the Plottings of 
 the wicked : And I take this to be the reafon, why they refiife to 
 pray for K. William III. for I have gone into feveral of their Meet- 
 . ings, and I have enquired or' others that have done the like ; I have 
 likewife read divers of rheir Prayers in Print, as Stev. Crifp\ and o- 
 thers, yet I could never hear, fee, nor learn, that they ever prayed 
 for K. H T illiam III. no, no more than for the Priefts, or than for 0- 
 t The Con- ^ ver •' But for thispmiffion. Whitehead hath a Salvo ready, viz. | 
 ten. Apoft. 'But, where are all required by Chrift or his Apoftles, to pray for 
 &c. p. 27. ' them (V. e. Kings, and all that are in Authority J by Name, or 
 t And may ' charged as Offenders for not naming of Perfons in our Prayers ? 
 
 you not ? ' May we not pray acceptably,! unlets we tell God the Names ofthofe 
 Who knows c m puy for , y Cn 
 
 nie'an ano^ ay But,ke.;Jer, let me trace this Snake in the Grafs, and hunt this 
 ther than the Fox to liis Burrow •, and do not think it hard dealing : I know, there 
 Rightful and can be nothing laid of them that grates, but they prefently cry out of 
 *S WfU h K p"ft Persecution, of Malice, while they take the liberty ro expofe all forts 
 of C Qua- ' of People, how innocent fbever, as at large I have fet forth-, * and 
 kerifm, &c fliall ihewone Inftance more, before 1 enter upon my CHACE. 
 Part 1. p. 44. Viz. ' To all you that delire an Earthly King in England, — who 
 t0 G*Pox' ' profefs your felves to be Chriftian v whether Presbyterians, oro- 
 Judgment of ' thers, — - Do not the Prielts, Presbyterians, and many of the Ru- 
 Kingly Go- ' lers, cry for an Earthly King i — And is not this the fame Nature 
 vemment, ta- c tne j ews were j n s A nc i <] they not in this Crucifie Jefus ? — And 
 ken out of a ' are notall thefe Elders Chriflia'ns, that will doat io much of an 
 wWtoSe 'Earthly King, TRAYTORS againft Chrift ? -- Now Elders, if 
 Presbyteri- c you fay, Peter laid, Honour the King, - — this doth not hold forth, 
 y K \ w ' tnat ^ e,er ^d t ' iem ^ et U P an f- art bly King over them ; neither do 
 the Reftor^ ' vou rcac *, ~ r ^ at r ^ ere were an > r ^^hly Kings iince the Days of 
 tion. c the 
 
From Quakerism to Christianity . 8 1 
 
 c the Apoftles , but among the Apoftate Chriftians, f 0V. + See the 
 
 But no fbonerdid the King come in Anno 1660. but within a&""*- u ""l- 
 Month, G. fox, and others, put forth a Declaration, laying, p. 4. j^j c £' J^ 1 
 < We do therefore declare, totakeofFall Jealoufies, Fears and Suf-ofthis. 
 c picionsof our Truth and Fidelity to the King, and thefeprefent , . , 
 'Governours, That our INTENTIONS and Endeavours are, and word/be! n". 
 c (hall be, good, true, honeft and peaceable towards them, and that v er fo con- 
 * we do love, own, and honour the King, and the prefent Governours trary, they 
 &c. It would require a Volume to fet forth their Temporizing, and are " ot *?. be 
 horrid Practices in this kind ; but I fhall only give a Tafte., referring jh" t Words, 
 to The Snake in the Grafs, tile. But 'tis comical to fee this their 
 early Turning with the Times : Firft, None more vigorous againft 
 Monarchy -, and yet, none did fooner, nor yet more flatter, fawn, and 
 creep to the fame Government, than did the Quakers : But that 
 which ismoft provoking, and for which I chiefly mention this, that 
 upon every occafion, to ingratiate themfelves into the Favour of the 
 Government, they frequently charged the fame Presbyterians, £9V. 
 with their being againft the Government, of fighting Principles, yea, 
 a People who would promote their Religion by the Power of the 
 Sword. Viz. f ' How did the Presbyterians excite the Parliament in + j ee w 
 c thefe very Terms : Elijah oppofed Idolatry and OpprefRon, fo do p«w' s juft 
 ' ye ; down with Baal's Priefts, (which is, faith Penn,) as much as to Rebuke, to 
 'fay, Away with your Arch- Bilhops and Bilhops, the whole Mini- $ D ' v ! nes ' 
 ' ftry, and Worfhip of the Church of England. fij p'.Ty 
 
 Come fmooth George, I have feen another of your Books,f where 
 you fay,/>. 52. ' Some of the Presbyterian Non-conformifts Preach- t The Way 
 ' ers, are fled Beyond- Sea ; others lurk in Corners here and there. caft U P> ^ yc - 
 c and keep private Conventicles, where many times they preach Se- p " * 2 ' J3 ' 
 ' dition againft their lawful Prince, by inftigation of whom, that In- 
 ' furre&ion hapned in 1666. Again, p. 53. And fome of them have 
 c printed Books in Defence of the Lawfulnefs of making War againft 
 ' the Supream Magiftrates, £5V; Again,/?. 23. And how many Gar- 
 c ments were rolled in Blood, by the inftigation of the Presbyterian 
 ' Teachers,the whole Nation was a witnefs ; fo that many thoufands 
 ' were made Widows and Fatherlefs, by that War they ftirred up 
 ' the People unto. P. 54. And in very Truth, the Presbyterian 
 'Church will never be able to purge her felf of the iniquity of kil- 
 ' ling many Thoufands in the three Nations, by the occafion of a moft 
 ' bloody War, raifed up thro' the inftigation of the Presbyterian 
 { Teachers, &c. And thus they continued bloody Enemies to the 
 Presbyterians, notwithftanding G. fox did fo condemn them as Tray- 
 tors, Antichrifts, and Crucifiers of Jefus, for endeavoufng the Re- + See their 
 ftoration of K. Charles II. and that no People then on Earth, did more Trumpet 
 ftir up, inftigate, and encourage a bloody War againft the King and f°"n dcd > &*■ 
 Church of England, than the fakers did : Witnefs their 'Trumpet J v " r [ th e ^ h e " 
 founded, f &c. M But ter . 
 
8i The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 But, notwithftandingallthis,and a hundred times as much. which 
 t A plain and might be lhewed out of their Books,yet they continued villify ing the 
 ' peaceableAd- Presbyterians, laying, f ' Knowing that ye look on it as a Duty, to 
 VI " \ ot ^ oi f ' fight by Military Weapons in defence of your Principle ; yea, to 
 "*„, Z promote YOUR CAUSE by the Power of the SWORD, in which 
 Scotland, &c. 'you are Confirmed by fome of TOUR PREACHERS, who are 
 Printed Anno, <■ ALWAYS labouring to perfuade you to this, as one Evidence of 
 1 68 1. p»»7«y 0ur Zeal for God, and not tofpare to hazard your Lives, Liber- 
 ' ties and Eftates, in fuch a Glorious Cauie, as you call it. — It were 
 'worth your ferious Confideration, That if thefe (Presbyterian) 
 thin°' of r it n0 "' fRKACUERS continue to STIR vou LP to RISE IN ARMS, \ 
 bu"ro°i:ifle ' they have not much of Self-intereft in their Eye, they being now 
 the Popifh ' fecluded from their Places, and that Power and Authority they and 
 Plot, and ' their Brethren had taken from them •, Whether therefore they leek 
 5he PrtS° n< not to EMBROIL the NATIONS in NEW WARS, rather than 
 ftants. " ' ftiU to be thus deprived? &c. 
 
 Thus then it appears, that the Quakers to curry Favour with 0. 
 Cromwell, they complained fearfully of the Presbyterians, as Tray- 
 tors, for joining with the Church of England, in the Happy Refto- 
 ration of K. Charles II. So now from 1 660 to 1 6% 1. they ufe all the 
 Craft and Policy imaginable, to bring the Odium of that Reign upon 
 the Presbyterians, and thereby to make way for the Papifts, and to 
 ftifle all their wicked Plots and Conspiracies : And that it is not my 
 fingle Judgment, I fhall publifh a Letter fent me. 
 
 S I R, 
 It being notoriouflyhp own, That fince the difcoveryofthePo- 
 pijh Plot in England, many Courfes and Endeavours hath been 
 ufed by the Papifts and their Abettors, to ftifle and hinder the 
 Difcovery and Punifhment thereof. 
 
 And particularly, by pretending a. Presbyterian Plot againU the 
 King and his Government in England 5 and in order thereto, 
 it is evident, what Faljities, Scandals and InveWrves againji the 
 Protectants in general, tinder the Nawe of Presbyterians, have 
 weekly been Publijhed in thofe Libels, Entituled, Heraclitus, the 
 Obfervator, and others. 
 
 And wheretts, there hath been lately Printed for Benjamin 
 ♦ The Qu«- Clarke in George-Yard, Lombard-Greet, London, * this 
 fe e i"er B0Ok " prtfent Tear, 1681. a certain Book, Entituled, Advice to the 
 Presbyterians in Scotland, which appears to have been written 
 two Tears fince 5 which Bool^ doth very much refleft upon fome 
 Principles of the Scotch Presbyterians $ whether rightly Suggest- 
 ed 
 
From Quakerifm to Christianity. 83 
 
 ed or not, is not the intent of this Paper to examine $ but twenty 
 Years Experience of the Presbyterians in England, have prov'd 
 their Praffices in England, far different from the mention d Re- * 
 
 flexions : Therefore, fundry well-meaning, Protejiants of diffe- 
 rent Perfuafions from the Presbyterians, for fever al Reafons, have 
 thought the Publication of the faid Boo^in Eng'^nd, * at this * f A \ t< 
 jitnffure of time, to be injurious to the ProteUant Intereft inge- Skene, a Qua- 
 neral : And fome of the faid Protejiants being informed, that '"'"Teacher. 
 Mr. Pennyraan did intend to make a publickJProtefiation againjl 
 the faid Bookjhis Day upon the Exchange, did thinly it their Du- 
 ty to diffwade Mr. Pennyman from the doing thereof, as being 
 probable to be the occafion of the greater Publication of the faid 
 Book., unto which he hath confented : And the fame Perfons do 
 likjewife defire and require you, as much as in you lyes, to hinder 
 the Publication thereof, leji by your negleS, you Jlrengthen the , _ c 
 Hands of the Enemies of the Protejiants, and P rote front Religion wis° fent to 
 in general. * the Quakers, 
 
 28 July, 81. 
 
 Thus then it doth undeniably appear, how envioufly Malicious, 
 and of what a Perfecuring Spirit the inkers are -, yet, poor Hearts, 
 this in them is all Innocency, Meeknefs, and the Lamb's Spirit •, but 
 in others, fb much as to tell them of it, it's Perfecution. Pray, what 
 was it in G. Fox, and others, to call the Clergy Witches, Devils, 
 Blafphemers, falfe Prophets, Jefuits, Conjurers, Anrichrifts, and Smith's 
 what nor, that might render them odious to the People >. This is no Works,p. 17$. 
 Perfecution in the Qtdfcers ■, no, they are innocent Souls, and as far A br >ef Dif- 
 from Perfecution, as the Meat of an Oyfter is from the Shell, when^" f ^ £. 
 living in the Sea •, for they for the prefent, are given up to fufrer. ft ate> & ( . 
 Come G. Whitehead, what think you of your Brorher Smith, who p- 7» 8. t 
 calls the Bifhops Monfters, the Church of England a corrupted B" rn *s h ' s 
 Womb, and by him riptup? What do you think of his faying, or ' s ' p 3 °' 
 the Common-Prayer Book receives its Strength from the Pope's ff Good God! 
 Loins, and that the Pope gives Life to it ? Oh that ye could but fee was ever the 
 your felves, and repent of your Wickednefs ! For, if the Govern- 'kelmpu- 
 mentfhould believe you, that the Clergy are falie Prophets, what re- " wn> 
 mains but Death, and that according to th^ Law of God? But I 
 challenge the Quakers to produce one fingle Clergy-man, that have 
 Prophefied of a thing to come to pafs, and it did not ; as Soi. Eccles, 
 a Quaker-Prophet did, who Prophefied, that John Story ihould die 
 within a Year, who lived four Years after, as I elfe where have 
 fhewed. 
 
 M 2 Again, 
 
84 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 Again, If the Government belkv'd the Quakers, whofe Books af' 
 
 6im, that the Clergy are Witches and Devils, they ought nottofuf" 
 
 t Exod n.is. ter them to live, but prefently fay, & There goes a Witch, f knock 
 
 ''Lev. 54. 16. him on the Head : Again, <&- There goes a Blafphemer, * ftone 
 
 + Deut.18 so. him to Death : Again, a ' There goes a lalle Prophet, let him die, f. 
 
 * The Guide Yea, (faith W. Ten/?,) * ' Whilft the idle gormandizing Priefts of 
 
 miftaken, &c ' England, run away with above 1 50000 /. a Year, under pretence of 
 
 p ,8, 'being God's Minifkrs, — and that no fort of People have been lb 
 
 c verfally,thro' Ages,the very Bane of Soul and Body,to the Llniverfe, 
 
 ' as that abominable Tribe ; for whom, the THEATRE of God's 
 
 , * moft dreadful Vengeance is referved, to act their Eternal Tragedy 
 tObfervethe tupon; + e7V< 
 
 hah of hath, Thus Reader, I have given thee a Relifh of the Quakers Meek- 
 w. p. nefs, and Lamb like Nature : And therefore, give me leave to Hunt 
 
 this Fox ■, Did I fay, give me leave? Nay, lam refolv'd, that if 
 thou wilt not give me leave, I fhall take it : What! (hall thele 
 Rab/heka's be perpetually Railing and Domineering over the Gofpel 
 Minifters without controul ? Shall thefe uncircumcifed Fhilijlines 
 appear in Triumph forty Years together, and their Goliah vaunting 
 1 Sam. 17. himfelf, boafting of his Parts, Learning, and Intereft at — as the o- 
 ther did of his Strength and Stature, whofe Staff of his Spear was 
 like a Weavers Beam ; and who glorying therein, defied the Armies 
 cfilfrael, as the Quakers do the Church of England, her Bifhops and 
 Clergy 1 And as a freih Motive to this my Chace, I faw two Let- 
 ters from two worthy Clergy -men to their Acquaintance in the City, 
 which complain'd of the Quakers Infolency. An Abftrad thereof is 
 asfolloweth, viz. 
 
 ' I fupply the Cure of I have with the Blefling of God upon 
 
 c my Pains, preferved the People in our Communion (except ibme 
 c few,} till now. But at this time, thro' the extraordinary Devices, 
 
 * Craft, and Subtilty of the Quakers, that Parifh, and two or three 
 ' more thereabouts, are in great danger of falling from the Church to 
 ' Quakerifm -, feveral of their new Converts go about to Houfes, im- 
 
 * portuning Men and Women to go to hear their Speakers : They are 
 ' fo troublelbm in this nature, as that I am perfuaded, fome have 
 
 * turned, and others muft turn for a quiet Life. I have obferved them 
 c to be much more hot and eager in making Profelytes fince the Peace, 
 ' than ever they were in the time of the War. They challenge us to 
 
 * meet them, and Difpute with them ; but, if we fliould accept their 
 c Challenge without our Bifhops leave, I do not know how he would 
 1 relent it •, befides, I am not hafty, left the beft Caufe in the World 
 
 ' fhould fuffer thro' my Weaknefs : And the Advantage they 
 
 ' would bring to their Caufe hereby , is, to have it univerfally be- 
 ' liev'd, that their Religion is lb good, and fb much favour'd by the 
 c Government, as that it neither can, nor dare be oppos'd by us. — 
 
 'I 
 
From Quakerifm to Christianity. 85- 
 
 * I believe, the intent of the King and Parliament, in granting them 
 4 an Indulgence, was not, that they fhould difturb the Profeffors of 
 ' the Eftablifh'd Religion by Law ; but rather, that thefe legal Pro- 
 
 * feflbrs fhould not be capable of difturbing or molefting them : I 
 ' pray God open the Eyes of our Governours, and caufe them to take 
 ' into confideration, this too much, and too deplorable, unlimited and 
 c unbounded Tolleration, (efpecially as the Quakers both claim and 
 
 * ufe it ■, ) which, notwithftanding all the Care,and indefatigable La- 
 
 * hour and Pains of the Watchmen oflfrael, will certainly (if not 
 ' timely prevented,) be the overthrow of our Church, and Chriftia- 
 'nity it lelfj 0V. 
 
 And to my own knowledge, they boaft of having the Royal Ear, 
 and fuch Friends at Court as give them great boldnefs, efpecially in 
 Country Towns and Villages, where they ride Lord and Matter, and 
 begin to think themfelves interefted in the comprehenfion difcourfed 
 of: But if lo, without firft a general Retractation of the Errours by 
 them broached , and of their fcandalous Defamations of our 
 Kings,our Parliaments, Bifhops, Clergy, and Proteftants in general,it 
 will be no other than breeding a Viper in the Bowels of the Chrifti- 
 an Churches, which God of his Mercy divert. Thus begging my 
 Reader's pardon for this long Digreflion, I fhall now take leave to re- 
 new my Chace,in Hunting the Fox ; not fb much to fingle out a fingle 
 Perfon, (for that (God knows,) of every Society, there has been fbme 
 Particulars under miftaken Notions, purfuing wrong Defigns;) as 
 to fhew, that the Governing Party of the Quakers, who fit at their 
 Helm, have been utterly againft this prefent Government : For, as 
 I told them Publickly, f i. c. c This Government and the Proteftant tin my Print?- 
 ' Intereft are 16 linked together, that thole which are not true to the ed Letter to 
 c one, cannot be true to the other, whatever they may pretend, 0^. pkQ" ak | rs > 
 I fay, not fb much to fingle out of their Herd one particular Perfon, n"" 99 ' 
 as to fhew, that the Quakers in general, (who think themfelves thus 
 highly honoured, as the Merit of their Innocency,) have all along 
 been averfeto the Government, that fb when they (like the Peacock,) 
 behold their dark Parts, they may let fall their Plumes, and be 
 humbled, and brought to aConfemon, both of their Sins of Omiffi- 
 on and Commiflion againft God and Man : For, 
 
 I having obferved the Difcourfe of the Quakers, touching the late 
 Happy Revolution, I found how their Pulfe beat; and in the gene- 
 ral, perceived a great Lukewarmnefs in them to the prefent Govern- 
 ment : I alfb went fbmetimes to their Meetings, as I did to other 
 DifTenters, to obferve, whether they all pray'd for their Majefties ; 
 and to do the DifTenters right, both Presbyterians, Independants and 
 Baptifts, pray'd heartily for their Majefties, King William and 
 Queen Ahiry •, but not a word of fuch a Prayer amongft the Quakers : 
 By which, I fbon perceived, that their Peoples averfhefs to the Go- 
 vernment, 
 
u 
 
 t In a Letter 
 to the Qua- 
 kers, 1690. 
 p. S . 
 
 I do not 
 
 charge this as 
 an Evil in it 
 felf, whilft 
 our King ; 
 but to (hew 
 the Quakers 
 Zeal to that, 
 and Coldnefs 
 to his prefent 
 Majefty, 
 whom God 
 preferve. 
 
 t Mark this, 
 with the 
 junfture of 
 time and oc- 
 casion. 
 * The Con- 
 ten. Apoft. 
 &c. p. 27. 
 
 t See New 
 Rome Unm. 
 p. 16, to 30. 
 
 The Pilgrim* s Progrefe, 
 
 vernment, proceeded from the Do£trine and Example of their Teach- 
 ers; upon which I Printed againft this their OoiLfian, frying, f 
 ' Why do you not Pray for, and Addrefs your (elves to K. William 
 { and Q± Mary, as publickly and as heartily as you did to, and for 
 ' the late K. James II. viz. as a Brave King > God and Gefar ((aid 
 1 Penn,) are both of a mind ; pray God blels the King and his Royal 
 ' Family. Thefe, and many more, were publifhed thro' the Nati- 
 ' ons, (and from your Yearly Meetings too ; ) but no Salutation, no 
 * MelTage, no Prayer for, nor Addrefs to K. William and Q; Alary ■, as 
 'if you were ftruck mute at the loft of your brave Popifh King. 
 ' What can you fay for yourfelves? Are you like thole, 1 Sam. 10. 
 ' 27. viz. The Children of Beliel, who f aid, How Jhall this Man 
 '•Jove us ? And they defpis'dhim, and brought him no Prefent s, (no 
 ' Prayers, no AddrelTes ; ) but the King held his Peace ? O ye unwor 
 ' thy and ungrateful Perfbns ! Hath not K. William granted you the 
 c Liberty of your Confidences i What ! Have you nothing to (ay 
 ; for K. William ? Nay, you are (b far from that, that you have 
 ' afted quite contrary •, for when K. William appointed a Faft for 
 ' the Profperity of his Arms, then you not only Preached againft the 
 ' Faft, but alio to weaken the Hearts and Hands of his Friends , you 
 ' vehemently cryed down all Wars and Fighting,! and the like. Is 
 ' your Zeal for the Proteitant Caufe quite gone, or is it gone to 
 ' Rome ? &c. 
 
 This Letter, I grant, put them into a Fume and Fret i but they 
 lbon found a Salvo, viz. * ' Where (faid G. Whitehead,) are all re- 
 ' quired by Chrift, or his Apoftles, to pray for them, (/. e. Kings, 
 c and all that are in Authority,) by Name ? &c. as before obferved. 
 
 But I lbon Printed a Reply to G. Whitehead's evafive Anfwer ; 
 where I gave inftances of their Prayers and Addrefles to the late K. 
 James II. f 
 
 The Humble Addrefs of the People called Quakers, to 
 King James II. June 1687. 
 
 'We cannot but with grateful Hearts, both admire and acknow- 
 ledge the Providence of God, that made the King's retiring into our 
 Native Country, C i- (*■ Scotland, in 1 6yp. ] give a Happy turn to his 
 Affairs, to the defeating and disappointing theDefigns of his Ene- 
 mies : We do iuftly conceive OUR (elves obliged by a fpecial 
 Tye, to praiie God for his Goodnefs, in carrying the Kingthro',and 
 over all his Troubles ; fince by rhe fame Providence, and at the 
 fame 1 ime. by which the LORD began in that more obfervable man- 
 - to evidence his Care of him, he made him the happy Inftru- 
 ment to deliver us from our Troubles ; fb that the Profperity of his 
 Affairs, and our peaceable Fruition of the Exercife of our Con- 
 fciences, bears the fame Date, &c. The 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianityv 87 
 
 Tfx Humble Addrefs of the People call'd Quakers, to Kiȣ 
 
 James II. from our Yearly Meeting, 1688. ' 
 
 4 We the King's loving and peaceable Subjects, from divers parts 
 c of his Dominions, being met together in this City, to infpeft the 
 'AFFAIRS of our Chriftian Society, f THROUGHOUT THE + «rt,-L kv 
 'WORLD, think it our DUTY humbly to Reprefent, &c. --- i„terpSad- 
 4 Now fince it hath pleafed thee, O King ! to renew to all thy Sub- on is Infect, 
 'jetts, by thy laft Declaration, thy GRACIOUS Aflurance, to pur- 
 c fue the Eftablifhment of this Chriftian Liberty, &c. WE think our 
 £ (elves deeply engaged, to renew OUR Aflurances of Fidelity and 
 ' Affe&ion : — And as we firmly believe,that God will never defert 
 'thisjuft and righteous Caufe of Liberty, NOR THE KING in 
 ' maintaining of it j So we hope, ©V . 
 
 Thus, Reader, you lee here is nothing wanting but bended Knees ; 
 here is in ALL Humility, in ALL Fidelity, with ALL Afreftion-, 
 yea, ALL, ALL, ALL, all Prayers for him, for a long Life, for afSeemySo- 
 profperous Reign; LaudandPraifeinthe higheft, for HIS Delive- b« Expoft. 
 ranee, for the defeating his Enemies, \_i. e. Proteftants 5 ] befides, yc ich tne 
 by a modeft computation, Ten thoufand Books fpread up and down the'ouakew 
 the Nation, in favour of his Government, f & c . p . lj% ' 
 
 But, fince K. William came to the Crown, NO Salutation, NO 
 Meffage, NO Prayers for, NO Addrefs to him from their Yearly 
 Meeting, f NO in all Humility, NO in all Fidelity, NO with + u n ] e fs this 
 all Affection, NO Publick Prayers for his long Life, for his profpe- in 1698. now 
 rous Reign, NO Laud and Praife that his Enemies are Defeated, the War is 
 Here is all NO, NO, NO ; nor one Book wrote in favour of thefjJ ed '^J nB 
 Government, during this Reign. them!* * * 
 
 But, that my Reader may rightly underftand, which fide of the 
 hedge the Quakers have to this day hid themfelves, I will recite one 
 Query to them anew, as in that Book of mine I did, f as I took it out fin my Book, 
 of a Jacobite Catechifm, p. 5. For, as I would not write one Sheet New Romt 
 which hath not a tendency, to fhew either their Errours, Hypocrifie, Unm - & c - 
 Covetoufnefs, or Treachery to the Nation, fb fhall I take in all that p " '*" 
 concur thereto, tho' it be twenty Sheets. The Query is ; 
 
 Query. c What made the Quakers no more concern'd for the lofs I could neve* 
 'ofthofe brave Patriots of our Country, Effex, Ruffel, (Sidney, Cor- get an An- 
 ' nijh, Bateman ? &c.) g'" 10 this 
 
 This was fuch an untoward, knotty Queftion, that all the Quakers ^ uery ' 
 were not able to Anfwer it, that ever I underftood : No, no, inftead 
 of being fbtry, G. Whitehead, Ft: Camfeild, Gilbert Layty, and Alex- This was the 
 ander Parker, deliver'd an Addrefs toK. Charles II. at Wind/or, a- firft Addrefs 
 bout the time of the Execution of my Lord Ru/jel, crying out ex- the y ever . 
 treamly againft all HELLISH PLOTS, and 'all TRAYTEROUS £f " Aur 
 
 CON- y ' 
 
 \ 
 
68 
 
 * No; for 
 what they do 
 at their Year' 
 ly Meeting, 
 is done by the 
 Body. 
 
 t The very 
 Titles of 
 thefe Books, 
 were fuffici- 
 ent for the 
 Ruling Qua- 
 kers to Cen- 
 fure the 
 Books. 
 * So-mle was 
 the Quakers 
 Printer and 
 Bookfeller. 
 t This per- 
 plexed the 
 Foxonian Qua- 
 kers. 
 
 Too true, 
 Sons of the 
 Foxonian Qua- 
 ker-Church. 
 
 " Meaning 
 their Month- 
 ly Meeting. 
 1 1. e. Their 
 brave King 
 James II. 
 
 t Viz. The 
 Lord Prejitn, 
 W. P. &e. 
 
 ' See New 
 Rome Ar- 
 raign'd, &c. 
 p. 30. 
 
 The Pilgrim's Vrogrefs, 
 
 CONSPIRACIES, and that they had nothing but Love and Good- 
 will to him, and his Brothet the Duke of York. 
 
 But to return to the Obfervation I have made on the Quakers 
 Publick Prayers for, and their Yearly Meetings Addrefs to the late 
 K. James if. and their contrary Practice to K. \\ 'illiam III. * I have 
 fomething more to offer, as an Aggravation of their Ingratitude -, for 
 they made an ORDER for the calling in the Widow Whit rows 
 Books, (fhe being formerly of their Society, and by her plain Drefs 
 fome take her to be lb ftill ; ) which was in favour of this Govern- 
 ment. Now G. Whitehead^ what Scripture had you for that? Or, 
 by what Authority did you prefume to give out this ORDER ? 
 
 Now I (hall tranfcribe the Widow Wh'troas Paper, concerning 
 the Quakers Order for calling in her Books -, which is as follow - 
 eth, viz. 
 
 ' December, i<58p. The Widow Whitrmo ordered Andrew Soiolc 
 to Print a Book for her, Entituled, The Widow WhitrowV Hum- 
 ble Addrefs to King W illiam III. And in December, 1690. or- 
 dered him to Print another Book, Entituled, For ^iteenMzxy,the 
 Humble Salutation and Faithful Greeting oj the Widotc Whitrow, 
 f 0V. Both which,were well accepted •, and which, Andr. Stw/e* 
 lent into the Country to his Friends the Quakers •. and many of the 
 laid People did buy them, and liked them well, f and lent for 
 more : But the chief Quakers in London, at their Monthly Meet- 
 ing at 7\'iw//7;//r-Houfe, the 7th of January following, made an 
 Order to have all thole Books called in •, and appointed John Eth- 
 ridge and William Ingram to go to the Printer, and acquaint him 
 with the laid ORDER ; which accordingly they did : At which 
 the Printers feem'd troubled, laying, They thought Friends would 
 not have been againft them, (/. e. fuch Books,) feeing they were 
 moftly writ againft the Pride and W ickednels of the Times : And 
 asked, What it was they had againft the Books ? Thev Anlwered, 
 They * had little againft them, ONLY THAT THF.V WERE 
 WRIT IN FAVOUR OF THIS GOVERNMENT, and refletf- 
 ed upon the former; f and that Friends had RESOLVED NOT 
 TO MEDDLE WITH THE GOVERNMENT, ifc. It is to 
 be oblerved, That the firft Book, called, The Addrefs, &c. was 
 Printed above a Year before, and Ibid by their Bookfellers, and not 
 any ftop put to them, till fome t were endeavouring the Overthrow 
 of this Government ; fb ftiat it is eafily to be underftood, what the 
 meaning was of fuch an Order, at fuch a time and feaibn,CV, 
 
 This Account is ftill ready tobeattefted, if deny 'd-, and which I 
 fignity'd fbmerhing of formerly, * but now I thought fit to recite it 
 at Large. 
 
 Well, this Order was made, where G. Fox, and the Chief Go- 
 verning ^takers in LondenjNzxc prcfcnt,in January • but in February 
 
 following 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 89 
 
 following, came out a Proclamation againft one cf their chief 
 
 Men ; who upon the News of it , and as a tacit confeffion of 
 
 great Guilt, run up a Cock-loft, at leaft a Chamber four Stoty-high, 
 
 to hide himielf Let now the Quakers remember their Book, where 
 
 they lay, c Some of the Presbyterian Nonconforming-Preachers are 
 
 ' fied Beyond-Sea, others lurk in Corners here and there, and keep 
 
 c private Conventicles, where many times they preach Sedition a- 
 
 'gainft their lawful Prince, cTV. as I- before obferved-, and let Mr. 
 
 Venn remember, and be humbled, and thankful for the Favours he 
 
 hasreceivd, and the Forgivenefs he has met with: Ar.d let himj. Viz Tttbe 
 
 look again upon his Preface •, f c The PRIESTS like FOXES, fee- chnaian Qmo- 
 
 1 ing their KENNEL, — TUMULTUOUS, BLOOD-THIRSTY, fa-/,*/ & 
 
 « COVENANT-BREAKING, GOVERNMENT-DESTROYING D ' w »< »/■ 
 
 ' ANABAPTISTS, — keep their Old Haunt, of creeping into, N w w 
 
 'GARRETS, Cheefe -lofts, Coal-holes, and fuch-like Mice p,;^, himfelf, 
 
 c Wales, * &C. was forced to 
 
 hide, and up- 
 
 By the King and Queen, a Proclamation, for Difcovering and occafiorTthan 
 Apprehending William Fcnn, and fames Grahme. thofe'hemen" 
 
 tions ; as may 
 MARIE R. befeenby 
 
 Whereas Their Majefties have received Information, ThatT^ e " Mz i^ 
 William Perm Efq; and James Grahme Efq; with other III- ma rion. 
 affected Perfons, have De/igned and Endeavoured to Depofe 
 7 heir Majefties, and Subvert the Government of this Kingdom, 
 by procuring an Invafion of the fame by the French, and other 
 Treafonable Practices, and have to that end held Correfpondence, 
 and Confpircd with divers Enemies and Traitors, and particular- 
 ly with Sir Richard Grahme Baronet, (Vifcount Prefton, in the 
 Kingdom of Scotland,) and John Afhton Gent, lately Attaint- 
 ed of High Treafon :, For which Caufe fever al Warrants for High 
 Treafon have been Iffued out againft them but they have withdrawn 
 themfclves from their ujiial Places of Abode, and are fed from J/i- 
 Jiice : 1 heir Majefties therefore have thought fit, by and with the 
 Advice of Their Privy Council, to Ijfue this Their Royal Pro- 
 clamation •■> And Their Majefties dj hereby Command and Re- 
 quire all their Loving Subjects to Difcover, Ta'c and Apprehend 
 the f aid William Penn and James Grahme, where ever they 
 may be found, and to carry them before the next Justice of the 
 Peace, or Chief Magi fir ate, who is hereby Required to Commit 
 them to the next Gaol, there to remain until they be thence Deli- 
 vered by due Courfe of Law ; And Their Majefties do hereby Re- 
 
 N wire 
 
po The Pilgrim's Progrep, 
 
 quire the/aid Jnflicc or other Magijlrate, immediately to give no- 
 ISolice thereof to Them, or Their Privy Council. And Their Ma- 
 jejiies do hereby Pub lip and Declare to all Perfons that pall Con- 
 ceal the Perfons above-named, or any of them, or be Aiding or Af- 
 fijiing in the Concealing of them, or furthering their Efcape, that 
 they Pall be proceeded againjl for fuch their Offence with the tttmojl 
 Severity, according to Lan\ 
 
 Given at Our Court at Whitehall the Firth Day of 
 february > 3 169-. In the Second Year of Our 
 Reign. 
 
 i 
 
 Whereupon (as I was credibly inforrhed,) one Mr. Fenny man on 
 the 2 2d. of that inftant February, 1690. in abhorrence of this Tray- 
 terous Confpiracy, uttered thele Words in their Meeting mWhite- 
 Hart Court, in Grace-Churcb-flrcet, London. Viz. 
 
 1 He that is a Traytor, or he that in the leaft goeth about to betray 
 ' this his Native Country, he is a Traytor to the Living God ; and 
 * he that is a Traytor to his Maker, is not, nor cannot be a Difciple 
 c of Jefus, that Holy and Juft One •, and he that is guilty of fuch cur- 
 ' led hellilh Practices, rauft bear his Judgment, whoever he be. 
 
 But as an aggravation of this their Crime, they did not only make 
 that ORDER lor the fupprelfing the laid Addrefs to the King,which 
 was writ (I believe) in Love and Good-will to him, iffc. but fuffered 
 their Printer, Andrew Soide, a Quaker, to Print feveral Odious and 
 Scandalous Books and Papers of Mr. Stafford's againft the Govern- 
 ♦Thisisrea- rnent; *andtho' they were friendly, and privately acquainted with 
 dy to be At- it, with defire, that rhofe fcandalous Books, &c. might not be diper- 
 tefted on oc- f ec i . y ct rh^y could not be prevailed withal to have them ftopr. 
 cafion. However, to do the Quakers all iuft Right, we mult acknowledge, 
 
 fome of them (and indeed but fome, and that of their Hearers too,) 
 were for the Government ; who, to give them their due, drew up a 
 Paper againft W. Venn, for being concerned in that horrible Plot, 
 with the Lord Prejlon, &c. For they having feen his Letters (that 
 he had writ on that OccafionO in Aaron Smith's Cuftody, and were 
 allured, that they were of his own Hand-writing : This Paper was 
 •This was figned by W. Mead, and a few more, * who would have had it made 
 Nobly done, Publick -, but the contrary Party being powerful, prevented it : Only 
 however. when TV. Penn (after his Skulking lome Years,) appeared, (by our 
 merciful King's Favour,) and Preached as formerly in the QtaJkers 
 Meetings ; then II 7 ". Mead, and lome others, took him to task, telling 
 him, That tho' the King had pafs'd by his Offence, yet they know- 
 ing him Guilty, (as by the faid Letters under his own Hand, was 
 naanifeft ■- ) they ought to have Satisfaftion, as they were a Religi- 
 ous Society, before he Preach' d in their AfTemblies: But he having 
 
 the 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. p i 
 
 the Teachers on his fide, and the generality of the Hearers, he wen 1 
 on nolens vo/ens ■, and if there had not been a Peace, 'tis to be ft ill 
 reared, that W. Penn, and his Confederates, (for lbme of 'em held it 
 out to the very laft, aflcrting it for a Truth, that there would be no 
 Peace, unlefs, &c.) would have purfued their Defign, which might 
 have prov'd fatal to this Nation. 
 
 But ftill to (hew, that the Quakers have rather merited the Dif- 
 pleafure of the Government, than the Favour and Countenance there- 
 of, and of which they 16 often boaft, viz. of their being Recogni- 
 zed Proteftants, of their being Free-bom Englifh-mQn, and thereby 
 of their Rights and Priviledges as fuch, I ihall recite an Abftract 
 ofanother Acl: of Parliament, and fhew their Non-fubmiiiion and 
 Averfion thereunto j Entituled, Anno Seprimo & Ofiavo Guliel- 
 mi III. Regis. 
 
 An A& for the better Security ofHisMajefties Royal Per- 
 fon and Government. 
 
 Whereas the Welfare and Safety of this King- Numb. 5 51, 
 dom, and the Reformed Religion^ do, next under God> 55 2 « 
 intirely depend upon the Prefervation ofTourMajejifs 
 Royal Per/on and Government ' y which, by the merci- 
 ful Providence of God, of late, have been delivered 
 from the Bloody and Barbarom Attempts ofTraytors, > 
 
 and other Tour Majeftys Enemies ; who, there is 
 jusl reafon to believe, have been in great meafure En- 
 couraged, to undertake, and prof ecute fuch their wick- 
 ed Dejigns \ partly by Tour Majejifs great and un- 
 deferved Clemency * towards them ; and partly, by the ! $ ^ ^" 
 want of a fuffcient Provijion in the Law, for the f ecu- "ue? 
 ring Offices, and Places ofTruji, tojuch as are Well- 
 offered to Tour Mayfly's Government, and for theRe- 
 pr effing and Punijhing fuch as are known to be Difaf- 
 fetledto the fame. Be itEnatled,Scc.^o.^')^. Where- 
 as, there has been a Horrid and Detejiable Conspira- 
 cy, formed and carried on by Papifts, and other Wick- 
 ed and Trayterous Terjbns, for Affajfinating His 
 
 N 2 Ma- 
 
$z The Pilgrim's Progrep, 
 
 Majefties Royal Terfin, in order to encourage an In- 
 vafion from France, to Subvert our Religion, Laws* 
 and Liberty \ We whofe Names are hereunto Sub- 
 fcrihed, do heartily, fincerely, and jolemnly profefs, 
 tefiifie, and declare, That His prefent Majefty King 
 LTfowPiii William,w Rightful and Lawful * King oftheje 
 to the Qua- Realms : And we do mutually promife and engage, to 
 DayMeetbg. ft and by, and affift each other, to the utmoft of our Power, 
 in tbe Support and Defence of His Majejiy's moji Sa- 
 cred Perjon, and Government, again]} the late King 
 
 *r?tedonour J ames> anc ^ a ^ ^ Adherents : * And in cafe His 
 new Saints. Majefty come to any violent or untimely Death, {which 
 God forbid,) We do further, freely, and unanimoufly 
 oblige our f elves, to Vnite, Affociate, and ft and by 
 each other \ in revenging the fame upon his Enemies, 
 and their Adherents, and in Supporting and Defend- 
 ing the SucceJJionof the Crown, &c. 
 
 ThisA&ofParliamentputthe^L/w&v'Jto a great confternation ; 
 aad what to do, they could not tell ; they having at the fame time 
 fpentrnuch Money, Time, and Pains, in procuring an A£l of Parlia- 
 ment, that their Affirmation ihould be taken, inftead of an Oarh •, 
 and it had gone thro' the Houfe of Commons, and was under Confi- 
 derarionof the Houfe of Lords : For, think they, if we do nothing,, 
 our Aft will not pais. 
 
 Well, at their Second-Day Meeting, March 23d. \6$>\. their 
 Teachers AHembled together ^ and no doubt, great Confultings there 
 were, and particularly about thofe Words, Lawful and Rightful 
 * For the King i * '^ i whether rhey ihould join with the BroteftiintsAn their 
 frrnch King Uniting and AJfociating to \}<inJby each other in rrcenging his Blood, 
 iad n Ty^ m ca ^ e ^ e k ac * come t0 a violent or untimely Death.£fV. Well, thefe 
 Kins of two ^ omts were largely debated, and potlibly, might hold many 
 Qrcat Britain, hours : However, it pais d in the Negative ; but yet, left their Bill 
 (for their Affirmation to be taken in lieu of an Oath,) ihould not 
 pais, they agreed thus far, namely, to get a Paper printed •, not men- 
 tioning what Meeting it was framed at, not Signed with any of their 
 Names to it, nor the Name of King William once mentioned ; and, 
 it this Pap.r [think they,] will but pais, it will not do us much: 
 
 — hurt, 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 95 
 
 hurt, in cafe our Old Friend come again; for none of our Names 
 are to the Paper, nor at what Meeting it was contrived at, 
 nay,- nor ib much as the Name of what King we mean ; and, in 
 regard we have obtained the Repute of an innocent well-meaning 
 People, it may do well enough ; So, away they went trudging to 
 the Houfe of Lords, and prefented divers of them. A Copy thereof 
 is asfolloweth, vis. 
 
 The Ancient Teftimony and Principle of the People call'd Quakers, 
 renewed, with refpeft to the King and Government, and touch- 
 ing the prefent Afjbciation. 
 
 We the faid People, do folemnly and fincerely declare, that it 
 hath been our Judgment and Principle, from the fir ft day We were 
 called, toprofefs the Light of Chrijijefus manifested in our Con- 
 fciences, unto thk day, That the Jetting up, and putting down 
 Kings and Governments, if God's peculiar Prerogative, for Caufes 
 heft known to himfctf^ and that it is not our worl^ or bufinefs, to 
 have any hand or contrivance therein, nor to be bufie-bodies in 
 Matters above our Station, much lefs to plot and contrive the Ruin 
 or Over-turn of any of them, but to pray for the King, and for the 
 Safety of our Nation, and Good of all Men, that we may live 
 a peaceable and quiet life, in all Godlinefs and Honefiy, under the 
 Government which God is pleafed to fet over us : And accord- 
 ing to this our ancient and innocent Principle, we often have given 
 forth our Teftimony, and now do, againft all plotting Confpiracies, 
 and contriving InfitrreBions, againft the King or the Govern- 
 ment, and againft all Treacherous, Barbarous, and Murtherous 
 Dcfigns whatfocver, as Worlds of the Devil and Darfaefs : And. 
 we fincerely blefs God, and are heartily thankful to the King and 
 Government, for the Liberty and Pr mileages we enjoy under 
 them by Law, ejleeming it our Duty to be true and faithful to them. 
 
 And whereas, we the J aid People, are. required to Sign the f aid 
 Aflbciation, We fincerely declare, That our refufing Jo to do, is 
 not out of any Difajfeffion to the King or Government, nor in op- 
 pofition to his being declared Rightful and Lawful King ofthefe 
 Realms ^ but purely, becaufewe cannot for Confcience-fakg, Fight , 
 Kill or Revenge, either for ourfelves, or any Man elfe. 
 
 And we believe, that the timely Difcovery and Prevention of the 
 late barbarous Defign, and Mifchievous Plot, againft the King 
 wd Government , and the fad Effeih it might have had", is an- 
 
 Eminent 
 
w^ The Pilgrims Progrefiy 
 
 Eminent Mercy from Almighty God '■> for which >, tee and, the whole 
 Nation, have great caufe to be hnmhly thankful to him, and to 
 pray for the continuance of his Mercies to them and us. 
 
 From a Meeting of the faid People in London, the 
 23 d. of the Firft Month, called March, i6p' t . 
 
 Thus endetb their March Ancient Teflimony, 165'f. 
 
 Thus, Reader, I have given you a Copy verbatim of the Quakers 
 Paper, preferred to the Houfe of Peers ; and I being then in Lon- 
 don, wrote a Reply thereunto, March 27. 1696. and pre tented it to 
 the Lord's Houfe, who immediately rejected the Quakers Paper, not- 
 withstanding all its fine and innocent Words, telling the Quakers, 
 they muft be plain, and tell them what King they mean : Secondly, 
 Whether they believed he was bothRigbtjut andLj?i/»/King : Third- 
 ly, That they muft Sign their Paper. Now, thefe three things gra- 
 ted forely on their tender Confciences ; for rhey went home ladly 
 angry with Francis Bugg, for being inftrumental in the Diicovery of 
 their deep Hypocrifie ; for had that Paper pals d that no body Signed, 
 no Kings Name to it ; if the late King had returned, they had been 
 Fifh-whole ftill, and as Loyal Subjects as ever they were before. 
 
 Thus, Reader, to prevent their Cavil, that I take but a piece of 
 their Sentences, and wrong rheSenfe, I have recited their whole Te- 
 ilimony verbatim : But, before I proceed to give you their April 
 Ancient Teftimony, let me give the reaion, at leaft one probable rea- 
 fon, why it was rejected, and would not pals the Houie of Lords, Co 
 as to effect their Deiign ■, as alio, what Communication,! guels,. they 
 had about it, &c. Fur, I being at London the 2+th. of the fame 
 Month, I went to the Houfe ofLords, where I had one of the recited 
 Teftimonies given me ; I went to my Lodging, and perceiving their 
 Prevailing, thro' their Pretences of feeming Sincerity and Innocency, 
 6>V. I wrote a Paper by way of Reply ; and, the 27th. of March 
 I gave away about r 00 to the Lords, who accepted of them ; and 
 prefendy one of the Peers came out, and call'd G. Whitehead, and 
 told him, That their Paper would not do ; for they had not fb much 
 asme'ntion'd what King they mean'd, nor yet declar'd himRightfhl 
 and Lawful King of thefe Realms, nor yet Sign'd their Paper: And 
 therefore, they muft go home, and get another more Authentick, or 
 their Bill for their Affirmation to pals, in lieu of an Oath, would be 
 rejected. Well, away" they went very lbrrowful,and I conceive might 
 haveamongft themfdvesa Difcourfeofthis Nature,' vt\z. G. White- 
 A ' Friends, our Paper is rejected-, for yonder was our old An- 
 v tagonift fr. Bugg, and he has "deli ver'd to the Peers a Paper, fug- 
 ' gelling, that we prevaricate •, he^ias alfo delivered about a hundred 
 ' of his Books to the Lords, Entituled, The §>*akers Jet in their 
 
 ' True 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. $j 
 
 ' True Lights iffc. and therefore, we muft get another Ancient Te- 
 
 * ftimony more full to the Matter, left we lofe the advantage of our 
 ' Bill ; but let us fhy a while, for if we go prefently, who knows 
 c but that Apoftate may reply to our next Paper ; for he is lb Eagle- 
 'ey'd, that if heefpy any thing that's defective, he may be inftru- 
 ' mental in throwing out our Bill : You cannot but remember, that 
 c we were fair for the fame Bill to pafs, in Anno 1 693. but he then 
 ' Printed a Sheet, and deliver'd to the Houfe of Commons, and in 
 c three hours time our Bill was thrown out of the Houfe. Indeed, we 
 ' Printed a Sheet, ftiled, The Quakers Vindication, &c. but he ha- 
 ' ving printed a Thoufand of thofe Sheets, and gave to the Houfe a- 
 t bout 500, and fent to all the Coftee-Houfes, from Weftminjier to 
 ' Bijhopfgate, about 400 more ; he prevail'd againft us : Nay, this 
 ' was not all, but prefently wrote a Book, Entituled, ^itakerifmWi- 
 ' thering, and Chrijlianity Reviving^ &c. and deliver'd between 
 ' two or 300 of them to the Houfe of Commons : We fee our felves 
 
 * fo baffled, that we law it not meet to revive our Bill that Seflions 
 
 * of Parliament 5 and therefore let's be wife, let us ftay until we think 
 ' he is out of Town ; for he has been here two or three Weeks alrea- 
 c dy ; and, what with his Charge in Printing the Papers he gave to 
 e the Lords, and the Charge of giving in fo many of The Qtiakers 
 c ft't,&'c. together with his Charges of flaying ; oneway or other, 
 c it coft him not fo little as 6 or 7 /. and he having no Publick Fund ■• 
 c to go to, it will make him weary, ©V. I fay, after this, they got 
 another Paper, and prefented to the Houfe of Lords -, a Copy thereof 
 is as followeth. 
 
 The Ancient Teftimony and Principle of the People called Qua- 
 kers, renewed, with refpe£t to the King and Government, pre- 
 fented to King William III. 
 
 We the fad People, do folemnly and fence rely declare, That 
 it hath been our Judgment and Principle, from the firjl day we 
 were called toprofefs the Light of Chriji Jefus, manifefted in our 
 Conferences, unto this day : That the fitting up, and putting 
 down Kings and Governments, is God's peculiar Prerogative 3 
 and that it is not our worl^or bufnefs, to have any Hand, or Con- 
 trivance therein, nor to be Bujie-bodies above our Station, much 
 lefs to Plot, or contrive the Ruin or Over-turn of any of them, but 
 to pray for the King and Safety of the Nation, and good of all 'No; hold, 
 Men,* that we may live a peaceable and quiet Life, in all Godli- £ ot J[ or th * 
 nefs and Honejly, under the Government, which God ispleafid to Govemoury 
 fit over us : And, according to our Ancient and Innocent un,efsthe y 
 
 Principle,^ p.79. 
 
9 6 The Pilgrim's Progrejl^ 
 
 Principle, we often have given forth our Teflimony, and now free- 
 ly and finccrely do the fame, againfl all Plotting Conjpiracies, 
 and contriving Infurretfions \ and against all Treacherous, Bar- 
 barons, and Murderous Deflgns whatfoever, againji the King^or 
 the Government, as being Worlds of the Devil, and Darkpefs. 
 
 And we believe, that the timely Difcovery, and Prevention of 
 the late Barbarous Defign, and MifchievoHs Plot, againfl King 
 •Aforc'd William * and the Government, and the fad Effetfs it might 
 put. Firft have had, is an eminent Mercy from Almighty God $ for which, 
 time. yy £ ^ M £ f ^ e jpfofe Nation^ have great caufe to be humbly thank- 
 
 ful to him, and to pray for the continuance of his Mercies to Them 
 and TJs : And We fincerely blefs God, and are heartily than^r 
 " O brave > //// to King William * and the Government,^ the Liberty and 
 This is the Priviled^es rve enjoy under them, by Law. And further, We are 
 really fat isfied, that God by his (pecial Providence, did bring in, 
 
 * This is andfet up King William * over thefe Realms, and do own him 
 News indeed! Rightful and Lawful King j -f- and are obliged in good Con- 
 t But Gw^e fti ence -> to be true and faithful to Him, and the Government, as 
 why did you becomes obedient Followers of our Bleffed Lord and Saviour Jefus 
 
 not fay fo ru.il} 
 freely, with- Lfjr/ J T ' 
 
 spur ? At a Meeting of the f aid People in London, 
 
 the Third of April, 1696. 
 
 Signed by many of Us, on behalf of our felves, and the refl of 
 our Friends, and prefentcd to the King, April 8. 1696. 
 
 Thus endeth their April Ancient Teftimony. 
 
 Reader,before I come to make Obfervations upon thefe two,Marcb 
 and April Ancient Teftimonies of the Quakers ; there is one thing 
 very remarkable, and worth your noticing, in the whole Conduct 
 of Quakerilm ; and, that in two refpe&s ; rhe firft ispaft, the fe- 
 cond s ftill to come, and ought to be guarded againft • and which 
 makes me fo long on this Head, and fo plain with them in this Mat- 
 t.r: And briefly thus: 
 
 That altho' no one People in England, did fo flatter Oliver Crom- 
 kcI, Ri\ hard his Son, the Rump and all the feveral Changes of Go- 
 vernment, during the Ufurpation, as the Quakers did, nor more op- 
 
 * See the 76, pole the Reftaurationof K. Charles]!. Nay, not only fo, but iufti- 
 77, 78 Pages fying Oliver in his Murrhering K. Charles I. and in carrying oh the 
 
 fo/a'sample ^ ar with '^ Vi g our : againft ^ Cavaliers and Delinquents : * But 
 
 when 
 
From Quaker ifm to Chriftianity. 97 
 
 when the Times turned. Oh! how they laid all the blame of both 
 
 the War and Ufurpation upon the Presbyterians, Independants and 
 
 Baptiftsi as if they themlelves had all along, been as Innocent as , 
 
 New born Babes. This puts me in mind of a pleafant Piece of 
 
 News we had run thro' our whole Camp when I was a Quaker, viz. 
 
 Anno 1674. IV. Venn put forth a Book, ftil'd, A fujl Rebuke to 
 Twenty one Divines, &c. 
 
 P. 25. c Was it not a great reaibn of the Wars, that divided fo 
 c many Families, (lied fo much Blood, and exhaufted ib great a 
 ' Treafure ? Did it not lay Epifcopacy in the Duft, and excite the 
 c Parliament in thefe very Terms ? Elijah oppofed Idolatry and Op- 
 c preffion, fodoye^ down with Baafs Altars, down with Baal's 
 - Priefts i do not I befeech you, confentuntoa Tolleration of Boats 
 c Worfhip in this Kingdom ; which is as much as to fay.[f lid Penn,2 
 'away with Arch-Biihops, Bilhops, and the whole Miniftry and 
 'Worlhip of the Church of England: Again, the Mouths of your 
 c Adverfaries are opened againft you, that lb many Delinquents^ that 
 1 is to fay (faid W. Penn,) Royalifts, areinPrifbn, and yet but few 
 c of them brought to Tryal : (Did he mean, faid IK Penn, to releaie 
 c them ? ) With much more of this nature, &c. 
 
 Now, tho' I do think, that divers of thefe 2 1 Divines were as clear 
 of what is fuggefted, as my ielf, if not all of them ; yet, becaufe 
 they appeared in Print, againft the Errours of the Quakers, they, to 
 ingratiate themlelves into the Favour of the then Government,expos'd 
 thefe Men as Enemies to the Delinquents', i. e. Royalifts. Well, the 
 News we foon had amongft us, was, that the King and the Duke of 
 Tork read this Book, with great Delight and Pleafure ■, and no doubt, 
 but took the Quakers to be, not only their Informers, but a parcel of 
 innocent Souls : * For it was foon obferv'd, That the Diflenters "See p 76,77, 
 Meetings were broken up, and the Quakers Meetings connived at : 78. What 
 A cunning YrojtB. £55Si« 
 
 idly, The fecond thing oblervable from hence, is, that in a little to the d*/™- 
 time, (for I lee the Quakers begin to wheel about } no Man fhall ?««*/, &*. 
 dare to appear in Print againft them, but they will fall to their old 
 Trade orDomineering and Infulting over them, as Enemies to the 
 Government, whilft none more eminently againft the prefent Govern- 
 ment than themfelves : For as then no People were more vigorous 
 in Print, againft the Reftoration of K. Charles II. than the Quakers, 
 yet, how did they complain of the Presbyterians, Independants and 
 Baptifts, as divers Inftances are herein given, and more might be? 
 Yet, fuch is their cunning and fly way of infinv.ation againft others, 
 thereby to ingratiate themfelves, and to villifie and expofe others, 
 that it's hard to believe, and harder to dete£l them therein : Foi\in 
 one of their late Books, writing againft the Reverend Author of The * Pr:: "- thr 'f- 
 Snake in the Grafs, &c. Tfcey call his Labours, * ' The Black At- JfpjJ? and 
 
 'tempts P . ';,".;*" 
 
t 
 
 98 The Pilgrim's <Progrefs, 
 
 1 tempts of a Neceflitous, Malicious Prieft, an Expi Ifed Clergy-man, 
 •AdireaLiej 'makes a Trade for I^iead, in part, to repair his Lolies, which he 
 I never heard . c | ur g CS t ] xc p re fem Eftabliifiment to have brought upon him, * to 
 word >f that divert his Cares and rears, and to lupply his Wants. Again, G. 
 tendency; Whitehead, in his Letter to G. Keith, la; forth his Fury againft the 
 tho'asfLme fjjd Author, in thefe Words : t 'Efpec'il\',when the injurious Cir- 
 taken a fornv ' curr >ft ailces ofthat venemous and obnoxious, creeping, fculking Ver- 
 er Oach , can- c min, comes further to be expofed, &c. whillt no People have both 
 notiacisfie hisc.eepedupanddown, fculked here and there, and fled fromjuftice, 
 fo'T ienCe h more t ^ ian tne Qy a ^ ers : W vwtfs their Grear Goliah for an inftance ■, 
 Malice^V e nor no one People in England, held out to the very laft, againft the 
 this merce- prefent Government, more than the Quakers. But their deep Hypo- 
 nary vrhite- crifie is both feen,felt,heard, and underltood,far and near ; and there- 
 biad. j ore ^ as a fu rt her Demonftration of their wheeling-about, and late 
 
 temporizing with their two-fold Teftimony •, one prefented in the 
 Month oi' March, the other (when that was rejected,) prefented in 
 the Month of April, as at large above-recited, I (ball now examine. 
 
 The Ancient Tejlimony and Principle of the People called Qua- 
 kers renewed, with rejf>ecJ to the King and Government. 
 
 Anfw. Firft, This I deny to be your Ancient Teftimony ; but 
 this which followeth, is your Ancient Teftimony, vie. 
 
 ' News com- Firft Dreadful* if the Lord, and Powerful, who is comine 
 ing up out , , ' J <■» > nit 1 
 
 of the North, in his rower to execute true judgment upon all you judges, and to 
 
 p. 18, 19, so. change allyour Laws :, ye Kings, all you Rulers, mull down, and 
 ceafe ; and all you ZJnderling-Officers, which has been as the 
 Arms of this great Tree, which the Fowls hath lodged under all 
 your Branches, mujl he cut down $ fo you must be cut down with 
 ' Meaning an the fame Power, that tut down the King, * who Reigned over the 
 Ufurper's Nation, whofe Family was a Nurfery for Papists and Bifhops : 
 Woe, woe is coming upon you all ; the fame Teachers are (landing 
 that was in the time of the King, and the time of the Bijlwps, 
 fiich as take Tythes ; you mujl both be tormented together, Beafl 
 •Both Go. and Falfe Prophet. * The Lord God will pour out his Plagues 
 ChSt tand */" M '^ w » the Lord of Hotfs hath fpoken it j and except you Re- 
 pent, \ ye Jhall all likgwife perifl), and be confumed, as the King 
 f .'• '■ *? f ta - veas, and perifh with the fame Power : Sing all ye Saints, and re- 
 joice, clap your Hands, and be glad, for the Lord Jehovah will 
 Reign, and the Government jliall be taken from you, pretended 
 Rulers, Judges and Jujlices, Lawyers and Conjlables 5 all this- 
 
 Tree, 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 99 
 
 Tree mutt be cut down, and Jefus Chrijl [in us,~] will Rule alone. 
 Sound the Trumpet, found an Alarum, call up to the Battel, ga- 
 ther together for the DeflruCt ion, draw the Sword, hew down all .*- 
 fruitlefs Trees * which cumber the Ground, hew down alltlie Pow- fmce they 
 ers of the Earth, cleanfe the hand from all Filthinefs, purge forth profefled the 
 the Drofs, the Filth and Corruption, flay Baal, Balaam mufl be g ' 
 flain, all the Hirelings mnji be turned out of the Kingdom, * &c. * This is their 
 Counfel and Advice, &c. p. 26, 27. Oh Oliver! I^ft^™* 1 Tc " 
 thou been faithful, and thundered down Deceit , the Hollanders 
 had been thy Subje&s and Tributers, and Germany had given up 
 to have done thy Will, and the Spaniard had quivered like a dry 
 
 Leaf, the King of France foould have bowed under thee his 
 
 Neck, the Pope fliould have withered as in Winter, the Turk in 
 all his Fatnefs, fhould have fmoah[d \ thou fhouldfl not have flood 
 trifling about fm all things -^ Sober Men, and 1 rue Hearts, took, 
 part with thee. * Oh ! take heed, and do not flight fitch, left * •■ t. Qm- 
 thou weaken thyfelf and not difownfuch as the Lord hath WW-SB'^JJJPJ 
 ed ' thy Dread is not all gone, nor thy Amazement : Arite, and 76, 77. 
 come out 5 for hadfl thou been faithful, * thou Jhoiddji have * viz Turned 
 crumbled Nations to Dufl, for that had been thy place : Now is all the Priefls 
 thy Day of Try al, p. 36,37. thou flmddfl have invited all thc%?££* 
 Chriflians upon Earth, in all Nations, to thce,that are againfl Po- 
 pery, to come in, and join with thee * againfl Popery } for thou * T hjs their 
 haft had Authority 5 flandtoit, lofeitnot, nor abufe it\ nor letfi^™^' 
 any other takg thy Crown, and do not fl and cumbering thyfelfa- 
 
 bout Dirty Priefts. And thou haft had Power over Nations for 
 
 Nations begins to be on heaps } and invite all them that profefs 
 againfl the Pope in all Nations, to join with thee againfl him ^ 
 and do not life thy D minion nor Authority, nor the \\ ifdom of 
 God, but with that thou may ft order all :, and let thy Soldiers go 
 forth with a free-willing Heart, that thou mayfl rocl^ Nations as 
 a Cradle } * and keep thou in the Fear of the Lord, and all thy * This is their 
 
 Soldiers, and them that are under thee. This is a Charje to thee £ ncient T „ e " 
 r r '+ t r j /-» j ftimony. See 
 
 in the prejence of the Lord \jod. p. 7 g ( 77 . 
 
 I am a Lover of thy Soul, and Eternal Good, 
 
 an Eftabliiher of Righteoufhefs, G. F X. 
 
 *To thee,0 Oliver Cromwell ! thus faith the Lord, iVW'The Righ- 
 chojen thee among the Thoufands in the Nations, to execute my teoufnefs of 
 Wrath upon my Enemies, and gave them to thy Sword , with which p °, ,' ^ c ' 
 
 O 2 I 
 
ioo The Pilgrims Vrogrefl, 
 
 I Fought for the Zeal of my oven Name, and gave thee the Ene- 
 Thefe I af- rnies of my oxen Seed to be a C/irfe, a/td a Reproach for ever, and 
 
 ' f ' '"-r Ancient m - u ^' t ^ c an l"firument aga'wjl them. And many have I cut 
 
 Teftimonies down by my Sword in thy Hand, that my If rath might be exe- 
 
 in Print, 
 which de- 
 serves to be 
 burnt on 
 
 attcd on them to the ntmoji. 
 
 G. Roifr. 
 
 SECONDLY, I muft acknowledge, it is according to your Old 
 Teftimony, with reipeft to your Hypocrifie, viz. in pretending to 
 pay your "Acknowledgment to the King for his Kindnels, and yet ne- 
 ver mention by Name, what King you mean d, when two Kings laid 
 claim to the Crown •, and for which your Paper was juftly rejected, 
 as a Fruit of your Hypocrifie ; of which, your Second-Day Meeting 
 is full. 
 
 THIRDLY, It was according to your Ancient Deceit, in not own- 
 ing King William to be your Rightful and Lawful King ; and yet, to 
 tell the Houfe of Lords, that your refufing to Sign the Affociation, 
 was not in Oppofition to his being declared Rightful and LawfulK'mg 
 of thefe Realms ■, which piece of Hypocrifie, the Lords foon percei- 
 ved, and lent you packing with your Paper. 
 
 FOUTHLY, It was alio according to your Ancient Teftimony, in 
 wheeling about, and Worihiping the Rifing-Sun, to bring in your 
 April Teftimony, with the King's Name three times over, and to 
 own him your Rightful and Lawful King,and YET to leave out your 
 Promile of Signing the Affociation. 
 
 FIFTHLY, It wasaccording to your Old Teftimony of Deceit and 
 Hypocrifie, to pretend in your faid April Teftimony, That you own- 
 ed K. William III. to be Rightful and Lawful King •, and yet, in your 
 March Teftimony, to pretend your Conference would not allow you 
 ig//s Works Liberty to Sign xhtAjfoaation, according to the MX of Parliament 
 p . 573. in that cafe made and provided, as above-recited, in regard you could - 
 * O deep De- not avenge your felves ; But being told by my Paper, (which I pre- 
 "'n f Tis fented to the Lords Houfe, which was in Reply to yours,) That you 
 that theLords t0 ^ &• Cromwell, Ton would be a Strength to him, and ftand by him 
 <lid not per- in the Day of his Trouble, and Defend him, and his jufi Government, 
 &c. Then in your next Paper, to wit, your April Ancient Tefti- 
 mony, you left out your refufing to Sign the Affociation, as well as 
 the Caufe, why you could not Sign it ; * namely, becaufe you pre- 
 tended you cannot take Revenge : For, alas ! in that my faid Paper, 
 fon, but can- 1 had fhew'd the Lords, That you had Profecuted a Man for killing 
 the Btooifor' ^Qs^^i gave 50 /. for the Difcovery of him, got him, and pro- 
 their Prince, curd him to be hang d in Chains, and yet could not avenge the Blood 
 Hopeful Sub- of your Prince, f O tender Conferences! Thus you make Con- 
 |j e ? s! "p hey y^ 7(V/ '0' uUr St3lking-Horfe into all your Villanies^ befides, your In- 
 tern apTce Siting m . v &&> an<a " others, are Demonftrations that you can leek Re- 
 venge 
 
 See Em- 
 
 ceive this. 
 i They can 
 revenge the 
 Blood of a 
 private Per 
 
V 
 
 From Quakerifm to ChrifHanity. 101 
 
 »'enge for Perfonal Wrongs and Injuries ; and yet you cannot for Con- 
 fcience lake, ftandby, and defend K. William, as you promifedyou , A S 
 would Richard Cromvoell, in his JUST GOVERNMENT, ©V. W ' 
 
 Some Inferences from the Eleventh Chapter. 
 
 IS it (b then, that this Second-Days Meeting is as the Helm to the 
 Ship, the Wheel within the Wheel, which fet all going, and 
 that they can leave out of their Reprints, fuch Prophefies as fuit 
 not with the Times? This (hews them arrant Impoflors. Is it 16, 
 that neither Second-Days Meeting, nor Yearly Meeting, have ever 
 yet given out one Publick Addrefs to K. William III. nor one Con- 
 gratulatory Paper, to acknowledge him their Rightful and Lawful** For their 
 King, and that they refuted to Sign the Afjociation with the reft of Ancient Te- 
 His Majefty's Subjects ? What reafon then have they, either ground- jl^"/.'i696. 
 ed upon Realbn or Merit, to expect fuch lingular Favours from the and their late 
 Government, as they would feem to infinuate they have ? And why Paper pre- 
 boaft they fo much upon their Right of Priviledges,when they'll com- tented to the 
 ply with nothing, but what fuits with their Intereft and Defign? ,^' ^eil' 
 And where they are call'd to any Publick Teft, either for their Fide- both drawn 
 liry to the Government, or to (land by, and defend the King, they up of a &*- 
 then at every turn, plead their Confcience in excufe from their Du- dah 
 ty ? What, hath no body any Confcience but they I Is it fo, that 
 their Ancient Teftimony is fo utterly againft Monarchy, againft Par- 
 liaments and Magiftrates, as to fay, ' We (land Witnefies againft 
 c Parliaments, Councils, Judges, Juftices, who make, or execute 
 ' Laws in their Wills, over the Confciences of Men, or punifh for 
 ' Confcience-fake •, and to fuch Laws, Cuftoms, Courts, or Arbitra- 
 ' ry Ufurped Dominion, we cannot yield Obedience ; — that the 
 c Parliament is the Beafl, and the Church of England the Whore of 
 '■Babylon-, that no King is to Rule but Jefus? *&c. And thereup-*See Bur. 
 on, they'll obey no Act of Parliament, which crofs their Defign. Works >P 10 3* 
 What reafon is there for their fo boafling at every turn of their being J01 ' 5 J4 ' 
 Recognized as Proteftants, when their Principles are not only repug- i have in- 
 nant to all Chriflians, but their Practice to all Proteftants the World ftanced three 
 over ; and rill they come to repent thereof, and retract their Errours, f t ver .M Afts 
 they are a fcandal to Chriftianity, and a reproach to the Name of Pro- obey. not 
 teftant? I have by me the Addrefs of rhe Honourable Houfe of Com- 
 mons, made mlebruary, 1697. and His Majefty's Gracious Anfwer 
 thereto-, I have alfo His Majefty's Gracious Proclamation, which 
 confifts chiefly of Two Parts •, the one againft Vice, Immorality 
 and Prophanenefs ; the other Part, againft Writing, Printing, or 
 Publilhing pernicious Books and Pamphlets, containing impious Do- 
 ctrines againft the Holy Trinity, and other Fundamental Articles of 
 
 the 
 
' I 
 
 101 The Pilgrim'* s Progrefe* 
 
 the Chriftian Faith, &?c. I have alfo by mc, a Copy of the Quakers 
 Paper prefented to HisMajefty, dated the 7th of Feb. 1697. where- 
 in chey own him King, as the Jevoijh Captives did Bcljkazza>\ Dan. 
 5.21. and thereby themlelves Captives ; wherein they take lome no- 
 tice ofthefirft particular, but not a Word of the latter: But this 
 Chaptet is extended beyond what at firft I intended , lb (hall not 
 at prelent, note the Quakers Hypocrifie in this Point, nor (hew how 
 far many of their Books, (and which I take to be the reafon of their 
 Silence,) are within the meaning of His Majefty's Royal Proclamati- 
 on, which are not only exprels againft the BlelTed Trinity, but o- 
 ther Fundamentals of the Chriftian Religion. I pray God blefs the 
 King, and preferve his Royal Perlbn, and infpire him with Holy 
 Zeal, to go on with his Royal Relolution; and let all true Prote 
 ftants and Good Chriftians fay, Atnc n. 
 
 CHAP. XII. 
 
 By reay of Introduction to the Thirteenth Chapter^ wherein I 
 fhall foew feveral Reafons, why I fo proceed. 
 
 R Fader, let none marvel, why I proceed thus with theft Men ■, 
 for they fay of themfelves, * ' They are raifed of the Lord, 
 ' and Eftablifhed by HIM, even contrary ro all Men ■, and 
 ' they have given their Power only to God, and they cannot give their 
 ' Power to any Mortal Man, to ftand or fall by any outward Autho 
 • A grand ' rity, and to that they cannot SEEK, * &c. Now, as they confcls, 
 Lie : Wto tne y were railed up, contrary to all Men •, lb have their Practice, 
 ee s more . M anners anc ^ Deportment, been contrary to all Men •, and therefore, 
 fhall they be dealt with contrary to all Men. Bifhop Jewe/, and o- 
 ther Reformers, wrote fmartly againft the Papifts •, and for the Peo- 
 ples lake, difplay'd their Errours, unmask'd their Leaders, and dif- 
 cover' d their Pious Frauds ; yet protefted, they were in Charity, and 
 defired nothing more, than that they would have hearkened to them, 
 and forfake their Errours : And I do folemnly lay, I know of no one 
 thing which this World affords, would pleafe me better, than to 
 lee this People condemn what is Erroneous amongft them, and perfe- 
 vere in the Truth, and the Knowledge of our Lord Jefus Chrift,true 
 God, and peifeft Man : But whilft they 11 excufe, juftifie, commend, 
 and recommend fuch vile Errours, as no Proteftant Society can en- 
 dure, 1 lhill proceed 5 and if I be blamed, better Men than I am, (as 
 Luther for one,) was-, who, when John Eccius, Jacob HechHrat, 
 *. T, V; I i lft - of >'Vrote to him, he quickly reply'd, laying, * 'By how much the 
 
 % p j /" 1 ' ' morc thc T r:1 S e 3 lo macn the more I go on ^ I leave former things, 
 
 ' that 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. jo$ 
 
 ' that they may bark at them, and go on to further things, that 
 ' they may have fbme things more to bawl at. Alio, conhder the ■ \ ' ,. 
 
 Prophet Elijah, a Man both Sober, Serious, and Religious ; yet, CZjJ 
 
 when he beheld the Idolatry of the Priefts of Bad, which did not ^z' 
 
 much exceed the Quakers, if at all, he could not but mock at them, " r " 
 
 and have them in a Holy Divifion, in order to the more compleat 
 Difcovery of them to the View ofthe Spectators : For it is writ- 
 ten, * Audit came to pafs at Noon, that Elijah mocked them, rfW*iKing.i8.»7 
 J did, Cry aloud, for he is a God ; either he is Talking, or he is pur- 
 fuing, or he is in a Journey, or peradventyre, he Sleepelh, andmufl 
 be awaked, &c. 
 
 Befides all this,here is more to bs faid ; for as theQuakers were railed 
 contrary to all Men, as they confeis themfelves, fo have they dealt by 
 others, as never any befides themfelves ever did : And therefore, give 
 me leave to fill the fame Cup to them again, which they fo plentiful- 
 ly have filled to others ; yea, good Meafure, preffed down, andfha- 
 ken together, and running over : For G. Fox, their great Apoftle, Luke 5. 38. 
 and High Prieft of their Profeflion,who was but a Journey-man Shoe- 
 maker, having heard fome body fay, That Tu was Latin for Thou, 
 the Second Perfon of the lingular Number •, and Vos was Latin 
 forlV, the Second Perfon of the plural N umber ^ nothing would 
 ietve his Ambitious Brain,but he muft make for the two Englijh Uni- 
 verfities, the Magiftrates, Judges, Gentry, and Clergy of the Land, 
 a BATTLE-DOOR, to teach them the fame, and that in thirty 
 Languages, of which he was not Mafter of one : And the pre- 
 ient Quakers, in order to magnifie their Great Apoftle Fox, have 
 Printed him the Author of the faid BATTLE-DOOR, * which is , s 
 as great a Cheat put upon the prefent Quakers, as Fox put upon us in i n dtx of 
 the Beginning, who made us believe, he had 24 Languages given fox's Journal 
 him by Divine Infpiration in one Night, as my felf, and others (ftill 
 living,) did believe •, for in the Introduction he faid, ' All Langua- 
 ' ges are to me no more than Dull, who was before Languages were, 
 ' and am come before Languages were, and am redeem' d out of Lan- c h c 
 ' guages into the Power, &c . For, tho' Fox was not the Author, jlf^ 1 *f ^ 
 yet his Name is let to it nine or ten times, in order to confirm the Quakers, &c, 
 Cheat ; for John Stubbs, and Benjamin Furley, had the chief hand P- *<>s- 
 in it : But in thofe early Days, the Government of the Fund, or p E i? V j an n. 
 Common Bank, was wholly at the difpofe of Fox, who like Symon e ^ tfy "ay of 
 Md£«f,having a defire to be efteem'd fome Great Man in Learning, Reply to Ro- 
 be hired fome J&vos to his Afliftance,as 1 have been credibly inform- bertBridgwan, 
 ed ? by thofe which heard the Jews fay the fame ; yea, and fince have ^ %\' D . 
 printed it in thefe Words, * * We, for our own parts, went to the ?cm of S the" 
 c Jews, and fpake with the Jew that received Eighty pounds in Quakers .' as 
 ' Mill'd Money, f paid by Gerrard Roberts, befides the Dozen Am ' D< *T™ 
 ■•Bottles of Wine, given by M. F. (Widow co Judge Fell, who £$ " ot ^cl 
 
 c after- ney do? 
 
104 f^ e ¥ilg rin * s P ro g re fe> 
 
 c afterwards Marry'd Fox,) as he did affirm, for doing the chief 
 ' part of the BATTLE -DOOR : And, what a Cheat was this to the 
 4 Ignorant, to make them believe, as if it had been revealed to G. 
 V- * Fox,&c. And when R. Bridgman., to cover Fox, faid, He (George 
 
 4 Fox,) had fome knowledge in Hebrew-, my Author goes on, p. 20. 
 *viz. Some body paid enough for his Underftanding in the Hebrew : 
 c Witnefs his 80 /. and dozen Bottles of Wine, iffc. Oh monftrous ! 
 ' Oh horrible Cheat ! 
 
 Now followeth the Form and Figure of a Penny Horn-Book for 
 Children, to learn their A, B, C as placed in that Book, Entituled, 
 A BATTLE-DOOR for Teachers and ProfeJTors, To learn Singu- 
 lar and Plural, &c. as let at the beginning of moft of the Langua- 
 ges in that Book, with a like Infcription, Signed on the Handle of 
 the Horn-Book, as in this, Geo. Fox, which could have no other ten- 
 dency, but to dilcover his great Preemption, to pretend to be Learn- 
 ed in thirty Languages, who was ignorant of his Mother-Tongue ; 
 neither did this Artifice only difcover his Preemption, in pretending 
 to be what he was not, /. e. a Learned Perfbn •, but it fhewed alio, 
 his Pride and Contempt thereby defigned ; and Domineering over 
 both Gentry and Clergy, as if they underftood not the Englijh of Tu 
 and Vos, fet in the faid BATTLE-DOOR, and with this Infcription. 
 
 A 
 
 BATTLE-DOOR 
 
 For Teachers and Profeflbrs, 
 
 To Learn Singular and Plural :, Thou to one, Ton 
 to many 5 Tu Thou, fmgular 3 Vos You, plural, 
 
 That now, why the Teachers of the World, Scholars and 
 School-Mafters, teach People and Children, which will 
 not have People nor Children to fpeak Thou to one, and 
 Ton to many, is not Senle, nor good Latin, nor good Eng- 
 HJh, nor good Hebrew : To you that ftumble at the Word 
 Thou, to a particular, becaufe we do not fay Ton, this is 
 Pent, ts'c. 
 
 GEO. FOX. 
 
 The 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. i o j 
 
 The next thing I have to prefent the World with, is an AbftracT: i , 
 
 ofanEpiftle ofG. Fox's, lint to be read in Churches: * Thus did . Lmimt ' , > i 
 the Pride, Arrogance, and Preemption of this People appear ; which, Printed for «. .',- ' 
 as they confefs, lhewed, that they were railed contrary to all Men : Mattb. s ^ _f 
 As their Practice in a hundred things was contrary to all Men, fo am mm > '^ 7 - I 
 I made willing to deal with them, as I would by no other Men : And 
 fince they have ordered a Liturgy for the Churches, giving forth an 
 Epiftle for them to read, why may not I form a few Words out of 
 their own Books, and fo far as I can make G. Wbitebead-to hold them 
 forth ? And fince the Quakers would make the Churches read their 
 Nonfence, why may not I draw lbme natural Inferences from the Qua- 
 kers,Do£trin hnce my end is nothing elfe,but to difplay their Errours, 
 and make them appear in their Native Complexion, which by their 
 Teachers, are more masked and oblcured ? If'any fay,That by drawing 
 a Scheme of their Meeting.and forming a Sermon for them to Preach, 
 is to do fuch a thing as no Man ever did : Let them remember again, 
 That no Man ever yet had the Impudence to write a BATTLE- 
 DOOR for the Learned Gentry and Clergy of a Proteftant and Learn 
 ed Nation, as England \s ; nor to form a Liturgy to be read in 
 Churches, and efpecially, by a poor Journey -Man Shoe-maker, and an 
 almoft illiterate Man, that could neither write Senfe, nor true E//£~ 
 lijh, and this may probably ballance the Wonder, efpecially, con- 
 fideiing,that it is more than 20 Years fince I wrote firft againft them •, 
 and from firft to laft, could never prevail with them to retratt one Er- 
 rour, nor to condemn one of their Books, in which their vile and grols 
 Erroursare taught. An AbftracT: of their faid Epiftle to be read in 
 Churches, is as followeth, viz. 
 
 To all the People who meet in Steeple-houfes in England, 
 " and elfewhere. 
 
 — So all yon that have the Letter in England, — therefi re to 
 you all, this isfent a Mejfage from the Lord Jefus Chrijl in Eng- 
 land, or elfewhere, into all the Steepk-houfes, to be read 5 for 
 God is a Spirit :, and they that Worfoip him, muft Worflnp him 
 in Spirit, and in Truth ; and fuch were drove out of the Syna- 
 gogues, drove out of the Ldol's Temple,and drove together } and fo 
 an Epiftle iras written to them 5 and God is the fame 5 he is a Spi- 
 r it. aim his Spirit is drawing from allStecple-hoitjes : — And theft 
 are them that witnefs, Oxford and Cambridge the two Mathers 
 of Divinity, which now the Lord's Hand is againft, and his Sword 
 is drawn aga'mfr :, — they are in their Witchcraft and Whore- 
 dom } — this is the Cage of unclean Birds, the profejfed Jtfirii- 
 fters : — And therefore all People that are here, thrift is not in 
 
 P the 
 
\o6 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 the Letter, nor the Life is not in the Letter, nor the Word is not 
 
 in the Letter :, this mediate Stuff hath Reigned long in ftaCage 
 
 { JH Ws Jour- * <?/unckan Birds, this Babylon : — And the Serpent and Dra- 
 
 aal, p. 127. g Qn which hath deceived the Nations, — you get the Letter for 
 
 the Light, a Steeple-houfe for a Church; Matthew, Mark, 
 
 Ardent TV Luke and John,/w the Gofpel : * The mighty Day of the Lord 
 
 ftimony. See is coming, and is to be cried in all the Steeple-houfes in England, 
 
 mT&e "and to be read, and cried 5 — W /7 «• that which yon call your 
 
 his Sromrf Church, the high places of 'Idolatry } # te^er aivay your Life, to 
 
 *?l m &',**> cry djabillyy.r Church, to take array your High Place of Idolatry 
 
 Cre. All harp / « •> J , , . . , j . n JF , . J r J 
 
 onthisftring, there $ — and this is to go abroad /wall Steeple-houfes 7// f/>e 
 thu m*wA. Nation, W their High Places, <*»;/ thro' die World, that they 
 and \lm,lxz ni ay come to God from them. G. FOX. 
 
 fo tar from 
 
 being the Now Reader, I will challenge a Pjrallel to the Impudence of the 
 
 they are Duft ^ ll ^ ers - Amongft all the Hereticks that ever role up fince the Days 
 and'' Serpents of Chrift, in England, Scotland. Ireland, Holland, or any Proteftant 
 Food. Nation under the whole Heavens, to find me a Man unlearned, a 
 
 poor Mechanick, to put forth a Book, Entituled, A BATTLE-DOOR 
 lor all Teachers,Scholars and School Matters, to learn them the Eng- 
 UJl) ofTuandVos, with the Form and Figure of a Child's Penny 
 Horn-Book, thereby to render them ridiculous and contemptible in 
 the Eyes of the People. and with fuch horrid Cheats attending all the 
 Circumftances, i.e. to pretend to Divine Infpiration, That he (Fox,) 
 was before all Languages, and confequently, before the Building of 
 Babel, where the Languages were divided •, and that he was, whilft 
 living, come to the end of Languages, which remain now he is dead 
 and gone. No, no, G. Fox was not the Author ; it was John Stubbs 
 and Ben. Furlcy, did the Learned Parr, yet fet their Hands only to the 
 Title Page •, but G. Fox's Hand is fet to the Latin BATTLE-DOOR, 
 the Italian BATTLE-DOOR, the Greek BATTLE-DOOR, the 
 Hebrew BATTLE-DOOR, die Cbaldee BATTLE DOOR, the Sy- 
 riaek BATTLE-DOOR •, (befides, in three or four Places more,) 
 'Fob what and yet wholly ignorant in all thofe Languages, the feces * for Mo- 
 8i». Fariry ini m y out f the Common Bank, did for him. O horrid! O mon- 
 Muidnotdo . ftrous. Next, I make the like Challenge to parallel the Quakers 
 Impudence-, not only to go into Churches to difturb the Minifters, 
 according to their Ancient Teftimony, and which they cannot deny, 
 fince 'tis Recorded plentifully in their Second Mofes, their great Ex- 
 emplar's Journal ; but I mean, to fend an Epiftle to be read in the 
 Churches, calling them at their Will and Plea fu re, Steeple-Houfes, 
 high Places of Idolatry, where the Chriftians exercile their Witch- 
 craft and Whoredom ; yea, a Cage of unclean Birds, Serpents and 
 
 Dragons, 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifKanity. 107 
 
 Dragons, that take the Letter, /. e. the Scripture, for the Light, and 
 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, for the Gofpel. Oh horrible ! 
 What Impudence is this ! What Lucifer i an Pride is here , for a 
 Diffenter, nay worfe, for an Impoftor thus to impofe his Impofture 
 upon a Chriftian Nation! Which being compared with what elfe 
 in orher Books I have obferved out of the Quakers Writings, as that 
 the Bilhops, and Clergy, are Witches, Devils, Conjurers, Sodomites, 
 Blood-hounds, Antichrifts, the Sir-Symons of the Age, Jefu its, &c. 
 yea, Monfters, and what not ; and then let G. Whitehead tell me, 
 firft, What he thinks of the Quakers Meeknefs and Humility ; and 
 next. Whether this Epiftle, BATTLE-DOOR, and great part of their 
 Writings, be not Seditious in the nature of them •, and fuch intolle- 
 rable Scandals, as had they not had more patience than the Quakers, 
 notwithstanding the loud Noife they make of Patience, Humility and 
 Meekneis, £?V. they would never have lain under fuch Publick Scan- 
 dals : And therefore, when in the next Chapter I come to touch 
 their tender Part, as Erafmus once laid to a Monk, I fhall fee how 
 patient they'll be, when they are paid in their own Coin ; nay, I hope 
 far better, at leaft to a better Purpole. 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 The Quakers Convocation : George Whitehead'/ Sermon, 
 explaining their Ancient Testimony. 
 
 Rcider , 
 
 THink not the following Sermon a Romance, or Fiction -, 
 for the Defign of it is good, and intended for their Convi- 
 ction : Read the Books in the Margin, and you'll find it 
 fully proved to be the Sum and Marrow of their Ancient Teftimony •, 
 which, by their Contempt of the Scriptures, (hews their Antichri- 
 ftian Principles, and how their Doctrine carries all Iniquity in the 
 Womb of it, and opens the Flood-gates to all Atheifm, Dcifm, 
 Socinianifm, Arianifm, and all other vile Errours : And therefore, 
 in hopes that this following Illuftration of their Principles, maybe 
 of ufe to their Hearers, I proceed in this unuiual Method. But with 
 my Lord Bifhop of Lincoln, I will lay, * ' Not that this can be * In his Ad- 
 ' expected from the Leaders of that Party- they have Ends to fervt vice t0 his 
 ' in the Conduct of that deluded People, that will engage them,not- £^. rS p' ff 
 ' withftanding Confutation and Conviction too. "' 
 
 P 2 A Ser- 
 
 cond 
 
< 
 
 1 08 The Pilgrim's Progrefi i 
 
 A SERMON for George Whitehead to bold 
 
 forth at their Convocation, or Tgarly Afeeting. 
 t 
 
 FRIENDS, I begyour Attention to what fhall be fpoken this Day, 
 upon this Solemn Occafion, being met to infpe£t the Affairs of 
 our Society throughout the World : The chief Subject upon which 
 I ihall treat, is our Ancient Teftimony, as you will find it written 
 in our Gofpel, viz. f God is the fame, Truth is the fame, his Peo- 
 * The Qua- ' P^ e tnc & m ^ and their Principles the fame : * For our Principles 
 fcers cleared , ' are now no other, than what they were when we were firft a Peo- 
 &c p. 7- c pie •, f fo we cannot but recommend unto you, the holding up the 
 \mini h 6 'Holy Teftimony of Truth, which had made us to be a People, — 
 "Their Year- ' and that in all the Parts of it ; for Truth is one, and changes not,*&V. 
 
 ly Epift. 
 
 Printed 1696. Beloved, in the openingthe Words of my Text, I am to tell you, 
 f irjl, That as God is the fame, fo are his People the fame, and 
 according to our Ancient Teftimony, as unchangeable. 
 
 Secondly, That our Principles are now no other than they were in 
 the Beginning, in all the Parts of our Ancient Teftimony, whether 
 ' News com- relating to Monarchy, * Magiftracy, the National Miniftry, and 
 ingup, p. 1 8, all Points of Dottrine. 
 
 •9> »o. Thxis having opened the Words of my Text, I fhall now let you 
 
 know the Doctrinal Parts I intend to Difcourfe of, and then proceed : 
 
 FIRST, The Scriptures, which the Chriftians profefs ro be their 
 
 Rule; fhewing their great miftake therein, and the uncertainty 
 
 thereof 
 
 SECONDLY, The Authority, Certainty, and Infallibility of our 
 Friends Books and Sayings, and both Affirmatively. 
 
 THIRDLY, and LafUy, I ihall apply the fame hy wayofUfe, 
 and for your Confolation, Negatively : And thele in their Order. 
 
 firjl then, As to the Chriftians Miftake about the Scriptures, 
 • To all the l°°k into the Epiftle General of our Great Apoftle Geo. Fox, * viz. 
 People who ; And therefore all People that are here, Chrift is not in the Letter, 
 meet in < nor t h e Life is not in the Letter, nor the Word is not in the Letter : 
 fes e ?v pTj- ' This mediate Stuff has Reigned long in the Cage of unclean Birds ; 
 pfinteii^Vy!' you get the Letter for the Light, a Steeple-houfe for the Church, 
 c Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, for the Gofpel, &c. Thus, Be- 
 loved, you fee what great Miftakes are hapned to this People of 
 England, who by following the Doclrine of their blind Guides, have 
 taken Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, for the Gofbel; that is, 
 Glad-Tidings: No, no, 'tis Beaftly Ware, yea, Duft and Serpents 
 Meat j and this I can prove by two Books, wrote by our Apoftle 
 
 Geo. 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifHanity. 1 09 
 
 Geo. Vox, the one ftiled, News coming up, &c. p. 14. the other, 
 Several Tapers given forth for the Spreading of Truth, &c. p. 3, 4, ,\ ) 
 
 44, 45, \6. viz. ' So Duft is the Serpents Meat; their Original » ,' ' 
 
 ' is but Duft, which is Death ; lb thefe Serpents feed upon Duft ; *■ 
 
 ( and their Gofpel is Duft, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, which <= — k" 
 
 c is the Letter, &c. Thus, Friends, have I ihewed you the great Ig- 
 norance of the World's Teachers, who firft take Matthew, Mark, 
 Luke and John, for the Gofpel •, and now, fee what they have got 
 for their Rule : Who would think, they Ihould hear fuch Teach- 
 ers, as hold a Bible in his Hand, and tell People it's the Word of 
 God, and bid them hear it, and obey the DoQrineof it, at their Pe- 
 ril; for, it's the Law, (lay they,) by which you Ihall be judged ano- 
 ther Day: When, alas! my dearly Beloved, as I have more than 
 once in Print affirmed, faying, 'That which is fpoken from the Spi- § eeG Wm 
 c rit of Truth in any, (meaning our felves.) is of as great Authority, Truth del 
 * as the Scriptures, or Chapters are, and greater, 0c. And I ftill Ending the 
 affirm the lame, and do tell you, that it is according to our Ancient ^ uak p r ?> ^"f- 
 Teftimony ; and you know, we cannot change, nor alter, being as j 6 7 $7 , nnte 
 unchangeable as our Light within. Moreover, the Scriptures are To A Ser. Apol, 
 uncertain, that 'tis queftionable, who was the firft Pen-man thereof ;P- 49- 
 whether M^j-or Hermes, yea. either or neither : How then can 
 any Man depend upon them, as a Rule to walk by ? Thus you lee, 
 how the Chriitians are miftaken : For have not I my felf told you, as 
 well as my dear Brother Chrijhpher Atkinfon, ' That Friends do 
 ' not call Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the Gofpel and New Te- ¥ 
 c ftament, as the Ignorant Priefts do \ * And is it not written in the * Da y : ^ *•- 
 Gofpel of my faid Brother Cbrijh. AtJunfon, ' That for any to fay, "oTSv P 7. 
 c that Chrift is God and Man in one Perfon, is a Lie ? f What ground t The Sword 
 then hath any body to hold a Trinity of Perlbns ? Nay, my Brother ° f tne Loi d 
 Pew? and I, hath jointly faid in our Apology, Dedicated to the King's ° r * wn » & c - 
 Lieutenant General of 'Ireland, That we deny the Terms of three di- 
 ftinft Perfons in the Godhead; * whereby we dopofitively deny the * A Ser. Apol- 
 Creeds, called the Apoftles, Athanafian and Kicene Creeds. If any p- a©- 
 Obje£t, * Why we refufe to acknowledge them in Words, not alto- « _, 
 gether of, tho' agreeing with the Scriptures, feeing we our felves ufe Foundation 
 many Words not Scriptural; as thofe of calling the Scriptures fliaken. p. y 
 DEATH, DUST, BEASTLY WARE, SERPENTS MEAT, ©V.»«J. 
 thofe of our calling the Clergv,MONSTERS, BLOOD HOUNDS, 
 GRINNING DOGS, SODOMITES, WITCHES, DEVILS, &e. 
 thofe of calling Chrift, A GARMENT, A VESSEL? I Anfwer: 
 The reafon why we call them fo, and Tranflate the Words of Chrift, 
 John 5. 22, 27. from the Son of Man to the Light icitbin //.f,*IS, be- * The Qua. 
 caufe we believe, there is no other Son of Man than the Light with- l«rs Reafon 
 in us, which was in the Jews, Gentiles, CfV. before his Incarnation, fo £ gl^j 6 
 according to my Gofpel,and the Gofpel of my Brother/^^ Bullock, Trinity, C 
 
 where 
 
■? 
 
 110 
 
 * Iidgment 
 
 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 where we lay, THEREFORE THE MAN CHRIST JESUS WAS, 
 BEFORE HE CAME IN THE BODY, OR FLESH. * For to 
 be plain with you, according to our Ancient TeCtimony, we own no 
 other Trinity, nor God, than is within us ■, for the Light is God, the 
 Light is the Son of Man, the Light is the Holy Ghofti and we ha- 
 ving obtained the Repute to be a well-meaning People ; and tell the 
 Priefts, in Anfwer to their Demand, Do you own the Trinity ? Do 
 you own the Sacraments, t?V. We tell them, we deny their unferi- 
 ptural Terms : Where is the Words Trinity and Sacrament in the 
 Scriptures ? Tho' we are not fuch Fools, but we know, the Word 
 Trinity came from the Latin Word Trinitas, and Sacrament from 
 Sacra or Sacramentum, a Holy Inftitution or Sacrament ; yet to hide 
 our felves from the dint of their Arguments, we tell them, They are 
 * Entituled, not Scripture Terms : Nay, even this Seflions of Parliament, when 
 SfimeConfidera- t h e Houfe of Commons were preparing a Bill againft fuch as denied 
 bT "ftTthe tne Trinity,we loon perceived what might follow, and we gave in a 
 mor'e effectual Paper, *faying, ' Whereas the Bill Enacts,That if any Perfbn or Per- 
 Suppye/jing of c foils, &c. fhall deny any of the Perfbns in the Holy Trinity to be 
 Biafchemy and t Q ^ anc j make it puniihable by the fame Bill, were it not more 
 ^Imbho&d ' ^ c an< ^ P^ am 5 t0 P ut lt U1 Scripture Terms, as, inftead of, Deny any 
 ' ' one of the Perfbns to be God, to incert, If any onefhall deny any of 
 * the Three that bear Record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, or 
 ' the Holy Ghoft, to be God, i John 5. 7. Now, if we can keep the 
 Parliament to thefe Words, we (hall hide our felves, and retain our 
 Ancient Teftimony unlhaken. 
 
 Again, if any of you fhould yet Object, that notwithstanding we, 
 (according to our Ancient Teftimony,) call the Scriptures Death, 
 Duji, Beaftly Ware, Serpents Meat, f £<V. and fay, that whoever 
 V reach out of them, are Conjurers,* b V. Yet notwithstanding all 
 this, we profefs, to prefer the Holy Scriptures above all other 
 Books extant in the World, f To this I Anfwer, That you muft ob- 
 ! ferve the Context, as well as the Text •, and then you fhall fee, we 
 &c p. 7. ' do not interfere ; for in the fame Book, p. 72. viz. ' I may fee caufe 
 tThe Coun- c otherwifeto word the Matter, and yet our Intentions be the fame, 
 terfeit Con 
 vert, &c. 
 p. 26, 27. 
 
 t Nevsctming 
 
 v.p cut of the 
 
 North, &C. 
 
 p. 14. 
 
 A Brief Dif- 
 
 covery ofa 
 
 three-fold 
 
 State, &c. 
 
 p.p. 
 
 * Saul sErrand 
 
 * The Count. 
 Conv. &c. 
 p. 26. 
 
 Befides, Beloved, I would have none miftake me-, for tho' lam 
 the Man that did fay, we prefer the Scriptures above all other Books 
 extant in the World, * which in one fl-nfe is true, yet not in ano- 
 ther: Fi/jl, I hope, you do not underfhnd it of its Intrinfick 
 Value, of its real Authority, fb as to be a Rule of Faith and Pra- 
 ctice i and that the Commands therein are Obligatory upon US j if 
 you do, you are greatly m'rftaken, and that for thefe Reafons fol- 
 lowing : And, 
 . . , , Firji, ' That which is fpoken from the Spirit of Truth in any, is 
 in'gthe Qui- c °f a $ g reat Authority as the Scriptures or Chapters are,and greater. * 
 ken, &c. p. 7. Secondly, < That is no Command from God to me, what he com- 
 
 ' mands 
 
m a 
 
 From Quakerifm to Christianity. nr 
 
 £ mands to another : Neither did any of the Saints which we read of /( \ 
 
 c in Scriptures, aft by the Command which was to another, not Work/ r / ' 
 
 ' having the Command to themfelves I &c ' V 
 
 Thirdly, c No Command in the Scriptures,is any further obliging • • v 
 
 c upon any Man, than as he finds a Conviction upon his Conscience ; 
 c otherwife Men fliould be engaged without, if not againft Convifti- * p^kr//"* 
 * on •, a thing unreafonable in a Man. * New Nick- 
 
 fourthly^ To this triple treble Cord, which I think is not eafily name, &t- 
 broken, let me add our conftant Practice ever fince we have been a p ' 7r - 
 People, and it will not only confirm thefe Proofs, but fhew our fince- 
 rity to our Ancient Teftimony •, I lay, as a Proof that we do not pre- 
 fer the Scriptures above our own Books ; let it fuffice, That this for- 
 ty eight Years, never an Apoftate that ever wenr from us, can prove, 
 nay, not once fay, iftheylldous Juftice, * that ever we read any • George, what 
 one Chapter in the Bible, or any one Epiftle of the Apoftles in our you fay is 
 Meetings, whilft it hath been our frequent Practice to read our own *"?. e ; * am * 
 Epiftles : And furely, if we deemed the Scriptures beft, moftcer- thyfincerky 
 tain, and more edifying for us, refpe&ing our Ancient Teftimony, herein, 
 you may depend on't, that we would read the Scriptures in our 
 Meetings ; nay, we challenge all our Adverfaries, to fhew us one 
 Book of our Friends in the Unity, that ever fo much as recommended 
 the reading any one Chapter, or any one Epiftle of the Apoftles in our 
 Meetings. Thus much in Anfwer to one part of the Objeclion,with 
 reipect to the Truth, Certainty, Value and Worth of the Scriptures: 
 But ftill I fiy, rhey are occafionally good •, and in one fenfe, I do 
 prefer the Scriptures above our own Books, and then you may lay 
 your Lives on't, above all Books in the World 5 for fometimes the 
 Scriptures, as the Cafe may ftand, are like the Philoiopher's Stone ; [JJ* e p e " # 
 what they touch, they turn into Gold : And in that fenfe, our Con- Quails * * 
 feffion to the Parliament,with the Confequences are a Demonftration, p. n 2 . ' 
 viz. * ' I believe with my Heart, and confefs with my Mouth, the t Sacred, an 
 < Sacred f Scriptures to be Divine, left us by Men infpired of God, ^ c r r jP tural . 
 'as an exacf Rule of our Faith and Behaviour • and I profefs to be- now win" lC 
 'lieve in One Only God, who is the Father, and in Jefus Chrift his down with 
 ' Eternal Son, very God, and very Man, and in the Holy Spirit, one tne / e new 
 'and the fame God with the Father and Son, Blefled for evermore. fa^^L 
 
 Now, my Friends, tho' this Confeffion be as contrary to our An-^. 6 * n ^ 
 cient Teftimony, as Light is contrary to Darknels, as by our Books 
 quoted you may fee •, yet we kept our meaning to our felves, we 
 mean'd at the lame time, The Scriptures to be Duji, Death, and Ser- 
 pents Meat ; * That to fay, Cbnjtis God and Man in one P«/m,«'*7'^ 
 a Lie: f But, aslfaid. We may (Sometimes) fee caufe, (yea, andt7&«swJ/* 
 great caufe too,) otherwife to word the matter ; (yea, contrary to our the Lord draw, 
 Ancient Teftimony,) and yet mean the fame thing, * &c. that is to &£• P- *■ 
 lay, mean not a word we fay : And now to the confequence, and for c ^*« *&£ 
 which we prefer the Bible, . For, p.72, ' 
 
. \ 
 
 , i % The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 For, Friends, we no fooner Signed this Confeffion, but we had 
 
 |i" our Liberty-, and we no fooner had our Liberty, but all out London 
 
 Y*'' u Preachers fpread themielves, like Locufts, all over England and 
 
 ' Like Mice Wales ; * fome wentEa/?, fome Weft, yea, North and South; and 
 
 ' ' imcaii'd for, being generally Trades men, We not only got our Quarters free, our 
 
 and like Flies Hories free, and well maintain' d in our Travels ; a Silver Watch here, 
 
 Un m/° r ' a leaver there, a piece of Hair Camblet, and fometimes other Gifts : 
 
 their ptoT" Moreover, by our Liberty obtained, by the recited Confeffion, we got 
 
 Hon. into great Trades ; and by fpreading our felves in the Country, into 
 
 great Acquaintance, and thereby received Orders, (of the beft of 
 
 the Country Trades men,) for Parcels, whilft the Proteftant Trades- 
 
 * Londoners, men in London, * who had not this Advantage, flood ftill, and in 
 look about t h e j r Shops had little to do, whilft we fill'd our Coffers. Witnefs 
 like the Qua"' Tho - Greene for one i nft ™ ce > whofeWife would fcarce fufter him 
 ken, but at home ; lhe being willing (according to the Proverb,) to make 
 Jewsandje- Hay whilft the Sun thines; infomuch that in a little rime, heraifed 
 fuites, as ft is ' fmall Beginning to many Thoufands : All which fhew, that the 
 ftrtherfoew. Scriptures are accidentally good, &c. And this leads me to the le- 
 
 cond Propofition, namely, 
 
 The Authority of -cur friends Books and Swings, 8fc. 
 
 * T 11 h F'^3 I '^ a ^ ' new you,that as 'tis Blafphemy to call the Scriptures 
 would know the Word of God ; * fo I fhall lhew you, that our Scriptures, (for 
 the way to as I told you, in my Serious Apol. p. 48. Writings fignitie Scripture,) 
 the Kingdom, are t he Word of God, and this you will find written in the Epiftle 
 &'' % c £jfi. c , of o ur Second Alejes, in thefe Words, f 'Friends, to you all, this 
 v. H [i\ ' ' ' ' !S the Word of the Lord, take heed of judging one another-, this 
 + Several Pa- ' n the Word of the Lord, unto you .- I charge you in the Pre- 
 pers given ' fence of the Lord God, to fend this (Epiftle,) among all Friends 
 f°readiri' r ' an ^ Brethren, every where to be read in all Meetings, to you all, 
 Truth,"^- i This is the Word of God. Again, that I may corroborate and 
 p.<5o, 61, 61. ftrengthen your Faith in the Exercife of our Ancient Tcftimony : * 
 , , Read in rheGofpel of our Great Apoftle and High Prieft of our 
 to his Text? S Profeilion, G. box, where you'll find thefe Words, vie. 'You may 
 
 ' (laid G. f. to the Priefts,) as well condemn the Scriptures to the 
 
 'Fire, as our Writings ; for our giving forth Papers and Printed 
 
 'Books, it is from the IMMEDIATE ETERNAL SPIRIT of 
 
 t Truths Di- C God-, f upon which, our' Dear Brother Tho. Ellviood faith, That 
 
 fence, &c " * none can fquirt any Filth on the Epiftles of Friends, but it will tend 
 
 p. 2. ioi. # ' tobefpatter the Apoftles : * And in confidence thereof our Bro- 
 
 * An Ami- c ^^ Robert Barclay hath thefe Words, That as the true Principles 
 doteagainft, t of the Gofpe ^ ty rheir (/. Cm Quakers) Teftimonv, are reftored-, 
 57, iil ■ 16 is alfo the ANCIENT Apoftolick Order of the Church of thrift 
 
 ' re -eftablithed amongltthem, (i.e. Qiiakers.) anil fetled upon it's 
 ' right Balis and Foundation ; — that as thro' our faithful Tcftimony 
 
 'in 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 1 1 ; 
 
 c in the Hand of the Lord, that Antichriftian and ApoflatizedGz- 
 ' neration, the National Miniflry^ hath received a deadly Blow, by 
 c our difcovering and witnefTing againft their Forced Maintainance * 
 
 c and Tythes •, 16 that their Kingdom, in the Hearts of Thoufands, * Let all LiV 
 c begin to Totter, and lofe its Strength^ and fhall alTuredly fall to y erS > I[ adc! T 
 v the Ground : So on the other hand, do we weaken the Strength of ^Iua^' 
 'their Kingdom, who judge for Reward. The Nation fhall comefh-aees, guard 
 ' to be disburdened of that deceitful Tribe of Lawyers, as well as againft the 
 'Priefts. * I never knew any that left us, prove fteady to thofe toP!^ al ? ncy r 
 ' whom they go. I find, other ProfefTors make but ffnall Boafts of foXy"!?' 
 ' any Profelytes they get out from us ; 1 hear little of their proving all highly 
 'Champions, for the Principles of others againft us. f concerned. 
 
 Thus, Friends, you fee, that upon confidence of the Truth of our ^J he A**ri 
 Elder Brother, Geo. Fox's Ancient Teftimony, viz. That itwasBlaf 4 ' 2 C '^' '' ' ' 
 phemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God, (and yet laudable to 
 call his Papers, lent up and down to be read in Meetings, The Word 
 oj God, the Tl 'ord of the Lord God; ) I fay, you fee how ftoutly our 
 Brother Klltcocd avouched, that none could fquirt any Filth on the 
 Epiftles of Friends, butitmuft inevitably rail upon the Epiftles of 
 St. Paul ■, and he was in the right on't, * and likewile R. Barclay. " g. w. is no 
 in confidence of the Truth of G. Fox's Teftimony, viz. That to call Changiing.he 
 the Scriptures T7*rfiv-</<>/G«*/, was no kfs than Blafphemy-, whiM^S" 
 his own Writings fent up and down to ipread Truth, and in order to 
 it, to be read in Meetings, wasThcWordof the Lord ; andasfuch 
 to be read, and as fuch to be receiv'd : You may fee, I fay, how he 
 built his Hopes of our Reftoration, and the Downfal both of the Cler- 
 gy and Lawyers, infbmuch that he did not once think, any fhould 
 ever go from us, to prove Champions for the Principles of others a- 
 gainft us : And therefore, I exhort you this Day, to ftand Faithful 
 to your Ancient Teftimony, which is, to throw down the Scriptures, 
 and exalt out own Books ; and fb will the Work of your Light pro- 
 lper in your Hands. 
 
 Befides, for your Encouragement, (and that you may fee my Sin- 
 cerity and Serioufhefs, which is the fign of my Writing in every 
 of my Epiftles,) look into one of my Golpels, and you fhall find thefe 
 Words : That which k J poke n from the Spirit of Truth in any, is 
 of a* treat Authority, a* the Scriptures and (Jwpters are. and great- 
 
 Wherefore, ye dear Lambs, be ye encouraged, and go on boldly -,'£*/ & c p" 7 
 and if any Apoftate write againft us, befure you warn all our Friends 
 in the Country not to read a Page thereof, but tell them, all are Lies, . ^rue ; for 
 all is Malice, CV. and ihey are bound to believe you, * according never were a 
 to my Docfrine, in thele Words: ' It was for your fakes, and People held 
 1 the Truth's, that I was preffed in Spirit, thus to appear againft this ^t^Bii^ 
 ' deceitful Worker, which hath fhewn his Enmirv againft the Truth. lea ^ the Blind 
 
 - a 'and 
 
114 The Vilgrirris Vrogrefs, 
 
 V s and Us the Church of Ckriji, and Elctt People of God, called gua- 
 ' kers. And,/>. i<5. I affirm, That the true Church (as above de- 
 ' icribed,) is in the true Faith, that is in God : And we mull: believe 
 ' thus, as the true Church believes \ or elfe, it were but both a Fol- 
 
 • The Apoft. itf c ly and Hypocrifie, to profefs our felves Members thereof, * &c. 
 nndi»ry, &c. So that, my tender Lambs, you lee, firft, That we are the true 
 P- 3, '<*• Church of Chrift 4 next, That you are to believe as the Church be- 
 lieves •, and there lyes G. Flat's Journal on the Table, which you 
 have in all Quarterly Meetings, and ought to have it in all Schools, 
 
 •rtgr bavt * yea, in private Families ; for as our Brother Mead hath well ex- 
 Tch'ooi" »irT- P re ^ himfelf, it is the beft Book in the World, for our keeping 
 djlvhtre'htir U P our Ancient Teftimony, yea, better than the Bible, laid he. And 
 ro'uik read a now to conclude this Head, look into the Book of Canons, f which 
 Portion of it lyes before you on the Table, and turn to thole Church Canons, 
 'tuoklntf'th wn ' cft were m3 de Anno 1675. at a Yearly Meeting, oraConvoca- 
 Book of chink- cat i°n i where (in order to corroborate all that hath been faid on this 
 Camwm, made Head,) it is thus Written : 
 
 Anno 1675. «• It is the Senfe, Advice, Admonition and Judgment, in the Fear of 
 * God, and the Authority of his Power and Spirit to Friends and Bre- 
 ' thren, in their leveralMeetings, That no fuch flight and contemp- 
 c tible Names and Expreffions, as calling Men's and Women's Meet- 
 c ings, Courts, Seffions, or Synods ; that they are Popifh Impofiri- 
 'ons, ufelelsand burdenfbm; that Faithful Friend's Papers which 
 4 WE TESTIFIE, have been given forth by the Spirit and Power 
 4 of God, are Men's Edi£ls, or Canons •, or Imbracing them. Bowing 
 1 to Men, Elders in the Service of the Church,Popes and Bi(fiops,with 
 c fuch ftornful Sayings, be permitted among them ; but let God's 
 4 Power be fet upon the top of that Unfavoury Spirit that ufes them. 
 
 Subfcribed by us, 
 W. Penn y Jo. Burnyeat, 
 
 Ste. Crifp, G. Whitehead 
 
 Tho. Salthoufe, Alex. Parker, &C. 
 
 Thirdly and Laftly, Let me Apply what has been faid. 
 
 FRIENDS, I am now come to the laft thing propofed, tofpeak 
 to, on this Solemn Occafibn • and it (hall be by way of Ufe and Ap- 
 plication, for your Comfort and Confblation, and that by way of In- 
 ference drawn from the foregoing Two Heads : And, 
 
 FIRST, RefpeQing Conreflion of Sin^ Ihewing your Exalta- 
 
 * Edvntdn„rS xon a bove the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apoftles, Primitive Chriftians, 
 r<mgk\Works, Saints and Martyrs, and all the Chriftian Churches, to this Day. 
 
 t- 47- S E CONDL T, Relpefting the Obfervation of the Ten Com- 
 
 ^"w-'i" * man ^ ments i which are not binding to you, unlcfs you receive them 
 
 *!»,, V anew, as the Inlpired Prophets and Apoftles did. * 
 
 H7u THIRD- 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 115 
 
 THIR DLT, Refpetting the Ordinance ofBaptifm, and the 
 Lord's Supper. And, 
 
 FIRST, You being jthe true Ancient Apoftolick Church of • 
 
 Chrift, and as Quakers 5 ele&ed thereto ; and that the Quakers are • 
 
 in the Truth, and none but they, as our Brother Sol. Eales from the 
 Spirit of Truth hath written, * hath no need to make any Confeffion * see the Qu*. 
 of Sin in our Prayers to God, as our Practice for near fifty Years do k ' r ' chMr i f ' 
 confirm ; nay, nor all the Apoftates that ever went from us ; nor all p ' *' 
 the Priefts, our Adverfaries, cannot prove from any one of our Books, 
 wrote by my felfj G. Fox, Ed. Burroughs Yr. HoKgill, Father Venn, 
 Stim. Yijher, W. Smith, W. Baily, Richard Hebberthorn, and others 
 of our Friends in the Unity, that ever we made Confeffion of Sins to 
 God, and asked Pardon for Chrift's fake ; nor that ever we recom- 
 mended fuch a Practice to our Difciples, notwithftanding our Books 
 wrote by our Friends above-named, contain more than 5555555 of 
 Pages, in Folio, Qisarto and O&avo. Now Friends, What caufe 
 have we to Rejoyce, and to Magnifie our Light id thin, which hath 
 led us to fuch a State of finlefs Perfection ? And therefore, I exhort 
 you to keep up our Ancient Teftimony, in all its Parts ; of which, this 
 i&not the leaft : For let me tell you, that Jacob, that worthy and 
 godly Patriarch, he was fo fenfible of his finful Imperfections, that 
 when he prayed to God, he acknowledged himfelf unworthy of the 
 leaji of God's Mercies : f And 1/aiah the Prophet laid, But we are t Gen. 31.10. 
 all as an unclean thing, and all our Rightcoufnefs are a* filthy Rags, 
 and we all do fade at a Leaf, and our Iniquities like the Wind, have 
 taken its away. * And Jeremiah the Prophet cryed under a fenfe of* Ifa. 64. 6. 
 his Sins, We have Tranfgre/fed and Rebelled ; f yea, Job, that Man t Lun. 3. 41. 
 of Godiaid, I have finned; What Jhall I do unto thee, thou pre- 
 fcrver of Men ? * Yea, David, a Man after God's own Heart, laid, 'Job 7. 20. 
 For I mil declare mine Iniquity :, I will be forty for my Sin : - — 
 Have mercy upon me,0 God, according to thy Loving Kindnefs 5 
 according unto the multitude of thy tender Mercies, blot out my 
 Tranfgrejfions 5 wafr) me thoroughly from mine Iniquity. % and cleanfe 
 me from my Sin ; for I acknowledge my Tranfgrejfions, and my 
 Sin is ever before me 5 againji thee, thee only, have I Sinned, and 
 done this Evil in thy fight j that thou might ejl be jiijlrfied when 
 thoufpea^efi, and be clear when thoujudgejl - behold I was Jfiapen 
 in Iniquity, and in Sin did my Mother conceive me, * &C. * Pfil- 38,1*, 
 
 Again, Solomon faid, For there is not ajuji Man upon Earth, and JI " l '-' i ' 
 that doth good, AND SINNETH NOT-i f adding by way fcieT 7.20 
 of Interrogation, Who can fay, I have made my Heart clean, 'j FtOV - ia -9- 
 am pure from my Sin ? * Yea, that good Man Nehemiah, Fait- * Befides the 
 ed, Prayed, and Wept before the Lord God ofljrael faviha & ake ' s a ^ " 
 
 Q. 2 o 
 
1 1 6 The Pilgrim's Progrefiy 
 
 % Lord God of Heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth 
 
 *v Covenant and Mercy, for them that love him, and ohferve his Com- 
 
 T 5?ptG. Fox's tnandments : * Let thine Ear now be attentive, and thine Eyes 
 ■ Command- open, that thou mayejl hear the Prayer of thy Servant, which I 
 pray before thee now, Day and Night, for the Children of Ifrael, 
 thy Servants $ and confefs, the Sins oft/x Children of Ifrael 
 which we have finned againjl thee z, L and my Father's Houfe 
 jNehem. 1. have finned: f Yea, Daniel, that BJoved of the Lord, he 
 5,6,11. faid, And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my Con> 
 fejfion, and faid, Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping 
 the Covenant and Mercy to them that love him, and to them that 
 k§cp his Commandments : WE have finned, and committed 
 Iniquity, and have done Wickedly, and have Rebelled, even by De- 
 parting from thy Precepts, and from thy Judgments 5 and whilfl 
 Lwas Speaking, and Praying, and Confejfing my Sins, and the 
 Sins of my People Ifrael, and prefenting my Supplication before 
 * Dan. 9. 4,5, the Lord my God, * &c. Yea, John the Evangelift faid, Lf 
 sa ' w e f a y, that we have no Sin, rve deceive our felves, and the Truth 
 
 ♦ijohn \.%.isnot in us. * Moreover, St. Prf/// himfelf cryed out of a Bo- 
 dy of Sin, faying, For the good that I would do, 1 \do not 5 but 
 the Evil which 1 would not, that Ldo : L find then a Law, that 
 when 1 would do Good, Evil is prefent with me : wretched 
 Man that Lam, who full deliver me from the Body of this Death .<? 
 i Rom. 7. 19, -f- This is a faithful Saying, and worthy of all Acceptation, That 
 I'Tim'i ^Chriji Jefut catne into the World, to fave Sinners, ofwhomLam 
 Chief : All which Practice, is according to Chrift's Command 
 •Mat. 6. and Precept, * who faid, Whatfoever you fliall ask. the Father 
 f John i6.»3. in ni ) Name, he will give it you. f And when our Brethren, the 
 Donates and Pelagians, who profefTed a finlefs Perfe&ion, as 
 we do, told the Ancient Chriftians, that a conftant Pra- 
 ctice of Confeffion, implied a conftant courfe of Sinning: 
 St. Augufline reply'd to them, faying, Confefs always, for thou 
 
 * Mgnfiine m haft Matter always to confefs. * The. Briny confeffed, that he 
 P- 99- was a miserable Sinner j And (faid he,) therefore with aU my 
 
 Power, I teach, that all Men fl)3uld Jirfi acknowledge their Sins. 
 
 * Fix's A$s * Dr. Robert Barnes faid, The whole Church prayeth, Lord for- 
 ftotMeri* give us our Sins : Wherefore, fhe hath Spots and Wrinkles ^ but 
 
 ' 4 7> * 'by acknowledging them, (thro' the Merits ofCbrift,) her Wrin- 
 
 * See his klesbefcratched out. * Martin Luther faith, But thou wilt fay, 
 
 Worki,MJ4. fa 
 
From Quakerifm to Chri/lianity. u 7 
 
 the Church is Holy j the Fathers are Holy $ // is true, notxcith- 
 /landing, albeit the Church is Holy, yet is jhe compelled to fray, 
 Forgive us our Trefpafles : So, tho the Fathers are Holy, yet 
 are theyfaved thro' the Forgivenefs of Sins*. Next, hear what " See Luther's 
 Humble Bradford faid to his Louden Friends: John Brad- %££?%$** 
 ford, an Unworthy Servant of the Lord, be merciful to our Sins,?. i<S. 
 for they are great. — Let us heartily bewail our Sins ; repent us of 
 our former Evil Life, &C. 
 
 Thus, my A Veil -beloved Friends and Brethren, I have fhewed 
 vou many Inftances, both of the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apoftles ^*' s A&san* 
 Primitive Chriftians, and Martyrs, who have all along confeifed np ' u57 ' 
 their Sins to God, and begg'd Pardon for Jefus Chrift's lake 5 and 
 go you but to the Windows or Doors of the Churches, and other 
 Chriftian Aflemblies, (but befure.yougo no further) and you may 
 ftill hear them, /. e. Epiftopal, Presbyterians, Independants, and 
 Baptifts, crying out of a Body of Sin ; faying, They have erred 
 and ftrayed from theW ays .nf God (from Seven to Seventy, as 
 our Brother, Father Penn, has we'll obferv'd) * we have done' J T . mh ** i] ' 
 Dejpite to the Spirit of Grace, we have broke thy Commandments, but Sure Te- 
 ive have added to the Guilt of Original Sin, by our many and re- ftmony* &** 
 peated A&ual Sins :, and therefore n>e projirate our felves, and P * 9 " 
 humbly beg thy Pardon, for the alone fake of thy dear Son, and 
 our blejfed Redeemer, 'jefus thrift, our only Advocate, and Medi- 
 ator 'j to whom, with thee, and thy blejfed Spirit, be all Honour, 
 Glory, and Dominion, forever, Amen. 
 
 Now Friends, What a happy thing is this, that you need not 
 trouble your felves with any Confeffion of Sins, fince you are not 
 like other Men •, nor like thefe Publicans ; and therefore I exhort 
 you to keep to your Ancient Teftimony in all the Parts of it, make 
 no Confeffion of Sins, nor befure you do not recommend the Practice 
 of it, by Word or Writing, but keep to our Ancient Pra&ice •, nor 
 is there any need for our Hearers to follow thofe Chriftian Pre- 
 cepts, vt s» And whotfoever you do in Word or Deed, do all in the 
 NAME of the LORD fESUS; giving Thanks to God the 
 Father BY HIM; t whether therefore yet E AT or DRINK,* Col. 3. 17. 
 or whatsoever ye do, do all to the Glory of God: Firft, becaufe the i^ or / I0 ' 3 l' 
 Name Jefus belongs to every Believer, (I fhould lay ^iiaker) as ct ,iy ' 3 ' 
 well as to him that fufFer'd at Jerufalcm, according to our Ancient 
 Teftimony : * Secondly, becaufe you know that we our felves, to « A 0ue< i- 
 be feen of Men, do make a kind of a Prayer to our Light within, t0 Profeflbrs" 
 when we are at their Tables, when Company is prefent ; but if a- &c. p. a©. 17! 
 lone, either at Home, or Abroad, we feldom give Thanks for our 33* 
 
 Food, 
 
Ii8 The Pilgrims Progrefi, 
 
 Food, and feldomer with our Eyes towards Heaven, as Chrift did, 
 .^ as Stephen did, or as the Martyrs did : No, you know we are of 
 
 ^ " another, yea, of a different Faith and Pra&ice from all the Anci- 
 
 ent Patriarchs, Prophets, Apoftles, Martyrs, and Holy ConfefTors, and 
 all Chriftian Churches to this Day, being exalted above them •, for 
 we fit in Heavenly Places, finging the Songs of Sion, in the Beauty 
 of Holinefs, without Sin, or any Imperfeaion, which all the Re- 
 cited were chargeable with, as imply'd by their Confeffions, and 
 their relying upon the Merits of another, to wit, The Man Chrift 
 Jefus, as believing they fhall one Day appear before his Tribunal, 
 and be judged by the Law of God, recorded in their Scriptures : but 
 for our parts, we differ from them in all Refpetts, having our 
 whole God within us, as fafely, as the Papifts have their Crucifixes 
 in their Pockets. And thus.much, to fhew you the great Happinefs 
 and Excellency of our Difpenfation -, fo no need of ConfeHion, ac- 
 cording to our ancient Teftimony. 
 
 The Second Inference, i. e. The Ten Commandments. 
 
 And Friends, Whereas the Chriftians propofe to us (fbmerimesj 
 the life of the Ten Commandments; whether we own them 
 Rule to a Chriftian Life, look into one of my Goipels, and you will 
 find it thus written : Thou niayft a* well ask, if the Moral Law 
 * Truth de- (or Ten Commandments) be a Rule for Chrift, &c. * 
 o, nd * " g & * Again, Edzo. Burroughs one of our Prophets, faid, That k no 
 pi8. n ' ' Command from God to me, what he commands to another •, neither 
 did any of the Saints, which we read of in Scripture, aft by the Com- 
 mand, zohich wo* to another, not having the Command to themf elves : 
 I challenge to find an Example for it ; they obeyd every one their 
 t BumughS own Command, f 
 
 Works, p. 47. And in Defence of this Pofition, hear what Father Venn fays, i, e. 
 Xo Command in the Scripture is any further obliging upon 
 Man, than &i he finds a ConviBion upon his Confcience, othermfe 
 Quakanew Menjhouldbe engaged without, if not againfi Convidion, a thing 
 Nick-Name, H „ rea fonable in a Man: And now, that none of you may think 
 that thefe Do&rines of ours, point to, or aim only at extraordina- 
 ry Commands, as Mofcs going to Pharoab, with fome other Tem- 
 porary Commands, my very Doftrine fhew it to be the Ten Com- 
 mandments. Eirfl, By telling the Prieft they might as well carry 
 the Ten Commandments to Chrift ; the Confequence of which is, 
 that Chrift had as much need to learn them as we have. Second- 
 ly, in that we never Recommended the Ten Commandments to our 
 Hearers, that ehev ihould teach them to their Children, and fb 
 from Age to Age, one Generation after another, as the 
 Churches do, and ever did, both Jewifh and Chriftian. 
 
 Thirdly, 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. j t p 
 
 Thirdly, becaufe we never read them in our Meetings, nor in any 
 one of our Books, Recommend them to he fo read ; This there- 
 fore may confirm you in our Ancient Teftimony, which have been 
 to lay them by, as a dead Letter, Duft, Death, Serpents Food, and * 
 
 Beaftly Ware, &c. And I exhort you to be Bold, and Valiant, to 
 Maintain our Ancient Teftimonies-, and this leads me to the third 
 and laft Inference, namely, 
 
 Touching Baptifm, and the Lord's Supper. 
 
 Dear Friends, I am now come to give you the Arguments of the 
 Chriftians for Baptifm, and the Supper, which is founded upon 
 the Letter, which our Apoftle, G. Fox, laid was Duft, and Death, 
 vis. ' Their Sacrament is Carnal ; their Communion is Carnal ; 
 ' a little Bread and Wine ; fo Duft is the Serpents Meat. Their 
 ' Original is but Duft, which fc but the Letter, which is Death; 
 c and their Gofpel is Duft 5 Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 
 1 which is the Letter, f Again, ^.35. 'A Word to all you Deceiv- f News com- 
 c ers, who deceive the People; and Blafphemers, who utter forth }£f ^ f ° u L° 
 'your Blafphemy and Hypocrifie; That tell People of a Sacra- p , 14.^! 
 'rnent; and tell them it is the Ordinance of God: Blufh, blulh, 
 
 * and tremble before the Lord God Almighty, for dreadful is he that 
 ( will pour forth his Vengeance upon you: — You who live in the 
 
 * Witchery, and bewitch the People, iffc. 
 
 Dear Lambs, I firft told you, that the Authority the Chriftians 
 make ule of, for thefe Two Ordinances, is bottomed upon the Let- 
 ter. I have now (hewed you a greater Authority, for rhe disan- 
 nulling them ; namely, what is laid by the Spirit of Truth, tho' 
 our fecond Mofes : And to prove it, read the Golpel wrote by me, 
 1659. viz. < That which is fpoken from the Spirit of Truth in any, 
 ' (then to be fure in Geo. Fox ) is of as Great Authority as the 
 c Scriptures or Chapters are, and Greater, f Thus, Friends, I firft tT^ ut ' 1 /f 6 " 
 told you, what Authority the Chriftians pleaded for thefe two In- Qw,lm*&c> 
 ftitutions, of Baptifm, and the Supper; namely, the Scriptures : Ij,. 7 . 
 have likewife told you, by what Authority we have laid them a- 
 fide ; but left all of you mould not remember the Words the Chri- 
 ftians quote, not being much ufed to Scripture, they are thefe. 
 
 Go ye therefore, and teach all Nations, Baptizing them in the 
 Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoji, 
 teaching them to obferve all things vphatfoever I have commanded 
 you : And lo lam with you always, even to the end of the World* * Matth. a8. 
 Again, And he (Chrift) took. Bread, and gave Thu/tkf, and XQ ' 
 brake it, and gave unto them, faying, This is my Body, which is 
 given for you: THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE 
 
 OF 
 
no The Pilgrim's Progrefi> 
 
 OF ME. Likewife, alfo the Cup, after Supper, fay ing, This 
 , * Luke "' Cup is the New-Teftament in my Blood, which is Jhed for you. -f- 
 Again, Matthew hath it : And as they were eating, Jefus toof^ 
 Bread, and bleffed it, and brake it t, and gave to the Difciples, 
 and f aid, Take, eat, this is my Body : And he tool^the Cup, and 
 gave thanks, and gave it to them,faying, Drinkje all of it, fir this 
 is my Blood of the New-Teflament, which is Jhed for many for the 
 
 " Matth. 16. Remijfion of Sins. * Again, Paul hath it : For I received of the 
 
 26, 17, a8. £ orc i } /, a[ )r f/ lc f 3 a ]f I delivered unto you : That the Lord Jefus, 
 the fame Night in which he was betrayed, tookBread : And ivhen 
 he had ^iven Thanks, he broke it, and faid, Take, eat, this is my 
 Body, which is broken for you; THIS DO IN REMEM- 
 BRANCE OF ME. After the fame manner alfo, he took, 
 the Cup, when he had flipped, faying, This Cup is the New-Tejia- 
 ment in my Blood : TH IS DO YE, as oft as ye drint^ it, 
 
 t.Cor. „. IN REMEMBRANCE OF MEf. 
 
 2 3>»4» 1 5-. Beloved, I cannot but allow, that if the Letter, viz. the Scri 
 ptures, were of" greater Authority than our Sayings, or that the 
 Words of Matthew, Luke and Paul, were of greater Authority than 
 are our Sayings, Ifhould be of the Chriftian's fide-, for nothing in 
 the World is plainer laid, nor more poiiitively commanded : But 
 
 * By his Book Friends, in the beginning we were convinced by G. box *, that 
 News coming Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were Death, Dull, and Serpents 
 up.cW- ph- Meat . t h at tne Scriptures were Beaftly Ware ; that all that preaich- 
 itf'sj.Abrirf^ out of them were Conjurers-, rhat the Letter of the Scripture is 
 Difcovery of Carnal, Death, andKilleth-, that luch as once told People of a 
 a three-fold Sacrament were Witches : And that therefore they ought not only 
 9 tat print«/ t0 bhdb.' but tremble-, that fuch as preached Chrift without, and 
 itff}." n w's bid People believe in him, as he is in Heaven above, were fall e 
 Errand to Da- Minifters f, W r itches, Devils, &c. That it was Blafphemy to call 
 majhts, &c- p- the Scriptures the Word of God *, £tV. And therefore I warn 
 
 7^ Printed ^ t0 ta |. e j^d f Apoftatizing, from our Ancient Teftimony, as 
 + stitth's have it in my Text ; for what we were convinced of, by our Light 
 Primmer, />.8. in the beginning, to be Evil, to be Death, Dull, Serpents Meat ; 'tis 
 
 * Fo X \ Great fo ftjirjj t0 be Beaftly Ware, and Conjuration, 'tis fo Hill -, and there- 
 Prmt'ed'1659 'fore keep up to your Ancient Teftimony, my dear Lambs, in all the 
 
 Parts of it; Ha,"ha, ha^ hme, hme, hme-, filent. 
 
 After a little Silence, Will. Bingley, &c. 
 
 Friends, Friends, I am filled, I am filled, as with new Wine, I 
 am ready to buril at the joyful News I have heard to Day, iv- 
 
 lpecting 
 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifHanity. 1 2 1 
 
 fpe£ting our Ancient Teftimony : And Oh ! magnified be our Light 
 within, which hath thus exalted us above the Prophets, above 
 the Apoftles, above the Martyrs, and above all Chriftians, as our % 
 
 dear Brother, G. W. hath moft excellently made it out : Fitjl, In 
 opening his Text, and alio in the two Branches proceeding from 
 it, but more efpecially intheUie and Application, where he hath 
 confirmed me, in not making Confeflion of Sin, nor regarding the 
 Ten Commandments, nor thofe two Ordinances of Baptifrn and 
 Supper, all which is ratified and confirmed by G. Fox's Journal, 
 laying there on the Table : But yet I have a fhort Teftimony 
 to bring in, touching the Priefts, which I think our Friend G. W. 
 left out unawares, for I take it to be as necefiary an Ancient Tefti- 
 mony, to be kept up, as any other, only a little more Privately and 
 Prudendy; for they are as Great Enemies to our Defign of Sup- 
 planting Chriftianity, as any the World afford ; and my Proof for the 
 Antiquity of my Teftimony {hall be out ofEdw. Burroughs Epift.ivs. 
 (a.y And the Word of the Lord we founded, and did not ipare, and (a.) ej*. B«f- 
 
 * caufed theDeaf toHear,and the Blind to fee,and theDread of theLord wn^'s Eoiftie 
 1 went before us, and behind us, and Terror took hold on our Enemies. «?/' s " 
 
 I And Jirjl of all, ourMouths wete Opened, (b.) and our Spirits F///tv'p r j nt e7i658. 
 
 * with Indignation againft the P/ieJls and Teachers, (c) and with (i.) Then 
 
 * them, and againft them, wejirjl began to War, as being the Cau- j- he Quakerr 
 
 ' fers of the People to err, and the Blind-Leaders, that carried the f/? a -r rueeve . 
 
 c Blind into the Ditch ; and againft them, as the Fountain ol ry Word. 
 
 ' all Wickednefs, abounding in the Nations, and as being the Ijfue of 
 
 { ProphaneneJ's, and againft them we cried, fhewing unto all thefe 
 
 4 People, that they were not Lawful Minifters of Chrift, but De- 
 
 c ceivers and Antichrifls; and wej'pared not Pubtickh, (d.) and (rf.)Thenwhy 
 
 ' at all Seafons, to utter forth the Judgments of the Lord againft fliouid you be 
 
 * them, and their Ways, and their Churches, and Worjhips, and , "P ared ? . 
 l Praffices; and this was our Jirjl Work (e.) we enter'd upon, to mynvVwork 
 ' Threjh down the Deceivers, and lay them open, that all People to thre(h° r 
 
 ( may fee their Shame, and come and turn from them ; neithti down the 
 ' can we pray for the Priefts, but for their Deftruction, Hfc. Anc'. £?**"" D-'cei- 
 ' this Teftimony lay upon me to bear, which is in all Parts accord- \"\ Truth's 
 c ing to our Ancient Teftimony. (J.) Defence, &c 
 
 Benjamin Beating, Clerk. Let us fing an Hymn of Praife, and byG.i»x,and 
 Self-Exaltation, and to the Confufion of our Adveriaries ■, as you will R ^ h - HMcr - 
 find it written in the Epiftle -General of that Son of Thunder, Edzc. p r °[n«§'ifio 
 Burroughs prefixed to our Apoftle, George Fox's Great Myftery, 
 Printed 165S. 
 
 Ihe Waters have Ifeen drycl up, the Seat of that great IVhore, 
 
 I I ho hath made all Nations drun\ with her int icing Power $ 
 
 And catijed the whole Earth, She hath, Her Fornication Cup to tale, 
 I ] hereby Nations have long time err'd, on whom She long hath fate : 
 
 k r-.t 
 
122 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 But now Her Miferies arefeen, Her Witchcrafts are difcoverd, 
 i And She no more fiall Men deceive, for Day Light is appear d 5 
 •And the Bed wofitl I have fcen, of Torments great prepar'd, 
 Whereon She ntujl be caji, and PUgtUt mitji not he fpared : 
 But Woe to Her, the Cup of Wrath is fill d Her to receive, 
 And as t> others She hath done, the fame She f mil now have; 
 And Drink She tttufl of that full Cup, of God's fierce Indignation, 
 And then fiall all tier I overs mourn, and makg great Lamentation ; 
 For Fire in Her is handled, which muft Her all confume ; 
 Behold Her Smoal{ afendcth Day and Night up to Heaven : 
 The Antichrifls, who hath put on, and cover d with Shceps cloathing, 
 And long rul'd King, on Nations Inwardly Ravening - y 
 Who hath devour d God's Heritage, and had a Kingdom great ; 
 I have fen him made War againji, and Truth give Him Defeat. 
 Beh ild the Whore, Her Flejh is burnt, Her Beauty doth now fall; 
 She that is all Harlots great Mother, whofc Daughters are Whores all. 
 
 The Clofe of the Meeting, by Geo. Whitehead. 
 
 Friends, I have ftill one Word, of Exhortation, as you will 
 find it in the Prophecy of our deceafed Brother, Samuel i'ijher^ 
 touching Magiftracy and Government; which being according 
 
 * sam. F//Ws t00ur Ancient Teftimony, I could not well omit, viz. * ' I will 
 Works, p. 19, ' hold my Peace no longer, faith the Lord, as concerning this Evil, 
 b°>' M^b"''?' ' w ^' cn tne y *° prophanely commit, and do daily againft my Cho- 
 hufi. M ''""'fe n i but will utterly fubvert and overturn them, and bring the 
 
 ' Kingdoms and Dominions, and the Greatnefs of the Kingdom, 
 i Meaning ' under the whole Heaven, into the Hands of the Holy Ones t of 
 iheQtaiurs. , the moft High, and give unto my Son, and' his Saints, to reign 
 'over all the Earth: And take ALL the RULE, andAUTHORI- 
 c TY, and POWER, that ihall Hand up againft my Sen in his 
 ' Saints-, and put it down among all the reft, as one ofhisgreateft 
 ' Enemies, under his Feet, faith the Lord. For though the World 
 'take no' Delight in them, yet I takePleafure in my People, faith 
 
 * Meek £,,«. ' tne L ni : And I will beautifie my Meek ones * with Salvation, 
 tm ' ' and I will put my high Praife into their Mouths, and a Tmo- 
 tMark.thisis' edged S word into their Hands f-, and they (hall execute Venge- 
 your Ancient c ancc upon the Heathen, and Punifhments upon the People \ and 
 Teftimony as • (hall bind their Kings in Chains, and Nobles in Fetters of Iron, 
 pheile* writ ' anc * execute u P on tnem tne Judgment that is Avritten in my Eter- 
 6655.' "' c na l Decree, and Unchangeable Councel, faith the Lord. This 
 
 4 Honour have all my Saints :, this is the Heritage of my Servants, 
 'faith the Lord : And their Righteoufnefs, and their Reign, their 
 '■Salvation and Redemption, and all their Dignity , is of me only, 
 
 and 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. nj 
 
 * and of me only, and not of themfelves, fhall thev acknowledge it 
 'to be, SAITH THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, who is now thi s a y F ; $ ft ™ : 
 ' doing all this his Holy Will and good Pleafure ; and who is he MonarchySeV 
 ' that ihall ever Difannul it. mon ? No.it's 
 
 a Quaker Ser- 
 
 Given forth under my Hand, as the Lord hi mf elf gave ft into a u " n e Do- * 
 * my Heart to fee, and into my Mouth to fpeal^, and. unto ftrine, and 
 my Hand, thus at large, to mite it, the 25th. of the 7*/j. "„/ P«aT«. 
 • Month, 1656. P.iMJIULt. 
 
 Samuel Fiftier. tt^U 
 
 Catbolick 
 
 friends, I am the longer in this Sermon, becaufe my Text requires church in the 
 it ; namely, To (hew you our Ancient Teftimony in all the Parts ^ orld ' &c - If 
 of it : And if any of the World's People at any time f hould under- £' in ™ K? 
 ftandthis Dilcourfe, for 'tis much if it do not come abroad, then tell tended for 
 them we mean all within, we are an Inward People : And whether we thisHoly War. 
 mention War and Fighting, Swords and Spears, Ox or Ais, Kill, 
 Cut off, Deftroy, take Vengeance of the Heathen, Subvert and O- 
 turn Nations, Kingdoms, &c. all this we mean within, and this 
 have ; and this peradventure will fatisfie them. And now, Friends, I + Writ by Br. 
 ihall inftancebut one Proof more, to evince what our Ancient Tefti- ? 0W J l/ J' 
 mony was, and is in all its Parts, and then I (hall with Prayer con Daughter is 
 elude ; and it is in an Epiftle, entituled, THIS IS ONLY TO GO now in Bride 
 MONGST FRIENDS, f Which Epiftle contains great part of '»*". i™t*>) 
 our Ancient Teftimony: for it anfwers to George fox's Title Page, and£ '/ ip - B '"^ 
 
 -» T • r~> ■■ * a • r- t- r 1 A y t , e ' ' roitlh m Dub- 
 
 News coming up, i5c. and it aniwers to Jojiab Coal s Letter, where //„ Printed 
 he faith, DearG. Fox, who art the Father of many Nations - J™* 1656". 
 whofe Life hath reached through m thy Children 5 whofe Bemg\]$g*g°£ 
 and Habitation is in the Poiver of the Higheji, in which thou Barbados, re- 
 [George] Ruletf and Governs in Righteoufnefs : And THY £ ord , ed J" the 
 KINGDOM k ESTABLISHED in PEACE, and the IN- hndift Let-" 
 CREASE thereof is WITHOUT END* It anfwers alfo^ e r s > and . b y. 
 our Brother Solomon Eccfes, who (aid, It might be faid Seated in 7:?dJs, 
 G. Fox, as it w,is of Chriji, that he was in the World, and the a . nd che Jew, 
 World was made by him ; and yet the World kliew him not \ : frhe -% 4 ,i f ^ 
 For if he was a King, and had a Kingdom, and fuch a Kingdom, Challenge, 
 as of rhe Increaie thereof, there was never to be an end •, then you &% P- 6 - 
 may conclude, Friends, that he was the BRANCH, the STAR, \^f t f k 
 the SON of RIGHTEOUSNESS, fpoken of in Scriptures; bur amoneftnone 
 mark. THIS {Epiftle) IT IS ONLY TO GO AMONGST but fob, 
 
 FRIENDS* viz. and Fifth Mo- 
 
 4 And thou North of England ! who art counted as Defolate JTvery weiT 
 c and Barren, and reckoned the lead of the Nation ■, vet out of intituled 
 
 R 2 thee 
 
1X4 fbe Pilgrim* s Progred^ 
 
 * Kz. c Fox, c thee did the BRANCH * fpring, and the STAR arife, whicli 
 which was ' gi ves Light unto all the Regions round about in THEE (/'. e. the 
 pr j phe ^ e ^ of '" North) the Son of Righteouihels appear'd with Wounding, and 
 fulfilled^ l &t ' with Healing -, and out of THEE the Terrors of the Lord proceed- 
 hisNtwt'»Httf i ed, which makes the Earth to tremble, and be removed; out of 
 tie NtrthrWiei THEE f Kings, Priefts and Prophets, did come forth, in the 
 page, Printed; Name and Power of the moft High, which uttered their Voices 
 r* O t as Thunders, and laid their Swords on the Neck of their Enemies*, 
 
 the 1 North and never return'd empty from the Slaughter. Lift up your 
 
 came c Fix, c Voice ; blow the Trumpet ; found an Alarum out of the Holy 
 J a. Najitr, r. < Mountain •, proclaim the Acceptable Year, and the Day of Venge- 
 mbierthoni,G t ance f 0ilT q c & j gird on your Sword upon your Lovns, put on 
 SmvMecT' theTryed Armour, and follow him for ever, who 'rides on the 
 
 * i.e. When : white Horfe, and is cloathed with the fame, and makes War in 
 they were in - Rigfrteoufncft. Ride on, ride on, my beloved Brethren, and Fel- 
 + '/T' AHthe " low ^° 1cliers > make all plain before you-, threfh on with the new 
 Chriftians/ ' v Threlhing Inftrument, which hath Teerh -, beat the Mountains to 
 
 * No, where Dull, and let the Breath of the Lord fcatter it-, make the Hea- 
 the ^.ikers c fa n j tremble, and the Uncircumcifed fall by the Sword ; the 
 ex^no"' * Lord of Hoftsiswithus, and goes before us-, fparenone, neither 
 Quarter? l Ox nor Afs, neither Old nor Young*, Kill, Cut off, Deftroy, bathe 
 
 4 your Sword in the Blood of Amaieck f^f, 
 tVf The Quaker i own Writings are ' and all the Egyptians and Pbi/ifii/ies, and 
 
 their beit Confrruing Fooks, and will t ^ fa Uncircumcifed, and hew Agag to 
 Belt Interpret their leaning who this c ■ * * fa R fa Rocks f - 
 
 Amaieck is,, viz- Geo- Bilhcp in his Warn- r ,*, ,> , . n r .n\ i_ ' 
 
 inzsofthturd,?. 19 Printed 1660. i. e. 'cut down the Cedars and ftrong Oaks, 
 fee crys out to the Officers of the Ar- ' make the Devils fubjecf , call out the Un- 
 my, Rcm cm b:r Amaieck ( fays he ) the c c i ean Spirits, raife the Dead, (hut up in 
 
 SSESffc m£SSSii ; g^ brin § ?« <f™** «* !" y™> 
 
 Amaieck from under Heaven. News cut of ' NttS, launch lUtO the Deep, divide the 
 
 the North, Sic p. 17. proclaim thus; ' Filh , bind the Tares in Bundles, call them 
 
 Slay Baal, Baalim tr.nft he /lain, and aU c j ntQ fa JTjjg put Qn your Armour, and 
 
 th /J UrtU ?i ?nUft b£ "* ° ftheK,ng ' ' gird on your Sword, and lay hold on the 
 
 ™' t ' P br'eadful is the Lord, who- is coming ' Spear, and march into the Field, and pre- 
 
 to change all your Laws, ye Kings, p> ao. ' pare your felves to Battel-, for the Njti- 
 
 Jhc Govvnment jballie taken from you Ru- £ ons Jq^ <J e g e Qur Qq^ an ^ f a j tri i n fa^ 
 
 kr, ■ th """(f r G ™Z^>"?Jl t ' Hearts, who is the God of the fakers >. * 
 
 cut down, and Jejus Chnjt ( in us ) will ruiir u- ju l- 
 
 Rule alone. that we ihould fear him, and obey his 
 
 *- a proper queftiotii for few ( if < Voice. Arife, arife, and found forth the 
 
 any) know. c Everlafting Word of War and Judgment in 
 
 t Mewmg & Fox s Ten Command. ( ^ Ears Qf aU (he Nal ; onSj found an ^ 
 
 ^ See Sam, FijhSi Prophecy. c rum, and make their Ears to tingle -, our 
 
 * Enemies are whole Nations, and Multi- 
 'tudes in number ■, a Rebellious People, that will not come under 
 ' OUR LAWf; which arifeth up againft us, and will not have 
 c oiir Kiiig to Reign, * but tramples his Honour under Foot, and 
 
 k defpife 
 
From Quakeriihi to Chriftianity. nj 
 
 'defpifehisLaw, and his Statutes, and accounteth his Subjects as 
 
 ' Slaves and Bond-men ; ftand upon your Feet, and appear in your 
 
 ' Terror, as an Army with Banners ; and let the Nations know your 
 
 ' Power, and the Stroke of your Hands •, cut down on the Right , 
 
 'Hand, and Hay on the Left-, and let not your Eye pity, nor your 
 
 ' Hand (pare, but wound the Lofty, and tread down the Honourable" ibefi'flRe- 
 
 ' of the Earth ; and give unto the great Whore double, and give her-j^J^' d ^'J 
 
 * ho Reft, day nor night ; but as ine hath done, fb let it be done un- ",-„£ thtiut'u 
 1 to her ; and give her doube into her Bofom : * As (he hath loved young Whtrt a 
 ' Blood, fb give her Blood ■, and daf h her Children againft the Stones ; double cup. 
 'and let none of the Heathen Nations, nor their Gods', efcape out of ^"^rj Fifth 
 ' your Hands, nor their Images, nor Idols ; but lay wafte Fenced Ci- MmJ'hy'Lin. 
 'ties, f and tread down the High Walls ; for we have proclaimed * rhu camutbe 
 ' open War 5 your CAPTAINS are Mighty Men, and your LEAD- meant ■*** 
 '£&Sareweli-skuTd to handle the Sword •, * and they are Riding ^'c^iT 
 ' on before you againft the Beaft, and the falfe Prophet ; and within! 
 
 ' CURSED be every one, that rifeth not up to the Help of the Lord t i.e. The King 
 'againft the Mighty : The Beaft is Mighty, f and the falfe Prophet and taM* 
 1 is Great, * and they keep the Nation under their Power: But, 7^ 7be 
 O thou Beaft, and thou falfe Prophet ! you f hall be Tormented alrgy. 
 ' together ; thou Beaft, upon which the falfe Prophet 
 c fits, * whom thou upholds by a Law, and defends * YuCdfain Ride too ; but i 
 
 c by thy unrighteous Power; and into the Pit JA'^JJ^ 
 
 ' and Lake,fhall you be turned,to have your Refting- horrid principles."'' ' *" 
 
 ' place : And thou falfe Prophet, which hath decei- t w> marvel then they cannot 
 
 * ved the Nations, the Decree of our God is fealed P**/" them > uule f' f° r thiir 
 '-againft thee, t rhy Smoke (hall afcend for ever, and r^wTnX Fox /' id - s " 
 ' ever , and of thy Sin, there is NO FORGIVENESS , TrUth ' Defence ' &t ' p " »* 
 c norof thy Torment, no REMISSION; over you, do we, andfhall 
 
 ' for ever, rejoyce, and fing •, and over your God,and your King; the 
 ' Dragon, that Old Serpent, curfed be he, and his Memorial, for ever. 
 
 Written in Ireland^ 1655. by Edw. Burroughs and Era. Hovogill ;*Note 7&1 
 * and Printed in S&tarto, with this Title, This ps only to go was to 'go <miy 
 amongji Enends. ammgfi the 
 
 Friends. 
 
 Thus;, Friends, have I fhewed you our Ancient Teftimony in all 
 the Pans of it. Firft, Touching the World's Peoples Miftake in the 
 Scriptures, for a Rule to Walk by. Secondly,Of the certainty of our 
 own Papers and Epiftles, which are the Word of God, and a certain 
 Rule to Walk by. Thirdly, And in the Application, I have fhewed, 
 how our Light hath exalted you above the Patriarchs, Prophets, A- 
 poftles, Martyrs, and Holy Confeflbrs, and all Chriftian Churches, 
 to this Day. Fourthly, Our dear Brother W. Bingly, hath well re- 
 membered our Ancient Teftimony, againft the Hireling Priefts-, for 
 
 with 1 
 
il6 The Pilgrim's PregreJ}, 
 
 with them, and againft them, we began to War, and that with In- 
 dignation too. Fifthly, Ben. Bailing hath found out a very fuinble 
 , . Hymn of Praife, even a melodious Song of Triumph ; fetting forth 
 
 «. our Exaltation, and the Downfal of the Chriftian Churches, under 
 
 the Notion of the falfe Church, the Mother of Harlots, Myftery of 
 Babylon \ in which, my Heart was. and ftill is refreihed, as with new 
 
 * If the Six- Wine. Sixthly, I have alio doled my Difcourfe with the Prophefie 
 Week Meet- of Sam. fv/Zw. which you need not doubt, but will come topaft; 
 ing mind j t ma y be, (boner than you are aware of* ; for he gave it forth as it 
 everv^effion camet0 n ' m from the Lord, and no otherwife, the 25th Day of the 
 of Pariu- Seventh Month, which the World's People call Septemb. Anno i6<$6. 
 ment. lb that, it cannot, it cannot mils-, only for the prcjent, we muft be 
 t Read p 61. content to ftay^and patiently bear for the prefent ; for asyer, we can- 
 *^7z. n- The nottnui k5 welhall be made to handle the Sword ; f but when the 
 Priefts and time does come, I have fhewed you the Teftimony of two of our Pro- 
 Rulers, as in phets, and early Champions, what we (hall Do, how we (hall Kill, 
 the large Q ut c ff^ an( i Deftroy,and bathe our Swords in the Blood of Amaleck, 
 Note ma * and l av wa ft e Fenced Cities, and tread down the Honourable of the 
 
 Earth, and fpare neither Old nor Young, Ox nor A(s, Male nor Fe- 
 male, that will not come under our Law, and V Vorfhip our God. 
 And now I (hall conclude with a Prayer, and that alio, without 
 
 * See his an y Confemon of Sin ; for all my Sins were pardoned * in Olivers 
 Book, Truth time : ' For the Prince of this World was caft out of me, 1652. and 
 Defending the c Hell was Conquer'd, and Death and the Grave overcome, and the 
 Quakers, p. 8. Kingdom that cannot be removed- was given ME; and this the 
 tabefa ' Lord did do for ME > fr° m his Fore knowledge of ME ; and the 
 t»nd, &c. c Lord then brought ME into Sion, which I then did VVirneis. f 
 p. 7» '• ' Moreover, I was then moved, to Witnefs againft the Priefts and 
 
 'Hirelings, Diviners and Deceivers, and"--' judge the Whore, with 
 *»'•<■• The Go- c her Enchantments; and to Torn icnt the L-aJh * and Plague the 
 vernours. ' falfe Prophet, whofe Judgnu Miierywas then be- 
 
 <gun, and will never have end . which I Witneis, whom God haA 
 ' fet to root out, and pull dov. _■'.. Ar.d thus much lhall fuffice 
 atthistime, to (hew you our Ancient Teitimor.y, in many Particu- 
 lars, which you are exhorted to Maintain, Defend, and to Vindicate; 
 and not n anytime, to retraft anyone Syllable of it; fortheGovern- 
 mentoi our Church, even Men and VVomens Meetings, were Or- 
 
 * The Quaker's fai nei i * \ y Chrift within, Geo. Evf; as at large in my Book, Judg- 
 ^'s'orEccles n ' cni "~' c - P- 3 ! 7-> S 1 ^- ' s ma de clearly out ; and out of which 
 'prophifie. Book, p. 3 5-4. I lhall ule this fhort Form of Prayer, becaule the Day 
 
 is fir (pent, viz. 
 
 Let us Pray. 
 
 God, I make my Appeal and Supplication againjl ih/sjea- 
 louf, DivJding^and Rending Spirit, that h.,th appeared 
 
 in 
 
 o 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 127 
 
 in Strife and open Contcntion.a^ainft thy Servants : > 
 
 77*« bmrejl the Integrity Sod 5 * 2&J ^ ,. ^*Z™&$$* 
 endued me with a Lhriftian spirit, with Faith, Pag 19,317,157- <fh»J*g- 
 Patience andRejoycing f nderallmy Sufferings- yet %?*%£«„ % %£. 
 thou haft endued me aJJo, with the bptrrt of Lirghte- f M ; ca !, tut deep Hypocrifie ; efpe- 
 eus fiidvfncnt, Undemanding and Zeal 5 and ci a iiy,adding V .j2.ofi:isComit. 
 
 1 n J .ri t • T\ r rj r> C f C T C °nv. &C. where he tells ytu, 
 
 haft raifed me up f , in Defence of thy Lrojpel : do 1 He can j- et cau/ - e oth er»if> to word 
 
 recommend all to thee, to ntanifefl the end of all, <j« Matter, and yet mean the fume 
 
 and to plead anijuftrjic my Caufe - x it being thy own • '\ s ' Af l' idid Pharaoh , 
 Caufc. Amen, Amen, faith my SonL 
 
 Geo. Whitehead. 
 
 CHAP. XIV. 
 
 The Cage of Unclean Birds opened^ the Idolatrous Practices, 
 Blafphemous Principles and ViciousEnormities of the M&takers, 
 laid opened ^ which may be compard with Pope Leo X. 
 
 READER, by the foregoing Chapter, you have a View of the 
 high Valuethe Quakers fet upon themfelves, and their An- 
 cient Teftimohy-, and how they Debafe all Chriftian 
 Churches, as the Whore, the falfe Church, the Mother of Harlots, 
 even all: FIRST, All that Sprinkle Children, and tell People it is 
 Baptifm, and thereby an Ordinance of Chrift (a). SECONDLY, M G Fox*, 
 all that Preach Chrift without, as he is in Heaven at God's Right ^Srnithv 
 Hand (b). THIRDLY, All that do Study the Seriptures,and Preach primmer 5cc 
 out of them (c). FOURTHLY, All that will not Faft with the P . 8. 
 Quakers, who are in the Truth, (faith Solomon Eccles -, ) and that W Saul'/ £r~ 
 none are in the Truth, but thev (J). FIFTHLY, All that pay, or wffif&J- 
 receive Tythes (e). SIXTHLY, All that take Matthcza,Mark,Liike \Js change, 
 and John, for the Gofpel, viz. Glad Tidings, and the Scriptures &c. p. 3, 6. 
 for their Rule f/J, &c. (e) Antidote, 
 
 Nay, W. Venn and Whitehead adds, 'That a Mountebank is an ^'g.FoxV 
 ' honeft Man to a Parfon •, that fuch W ickednefs fas Debauchery, B$ifi*\ to be 
 'Drunkennefs and Whoredom,) more fuiteth the Spirits of his read in Steepl, 
 ' ( i. e. Priefts,) own Fraternity : the Priefts, both Epifcopal and ' MU f es > &c - 
 ' Presbyterian, whofe known Drunkennefs and Whoredoms, &c, f ' 2 ' 3 ' *' 5 " 
 'would fill Volumes to defcribe. Hear W. Venn again, p. 16%. 'Had 
 ' James Kaylers Words been Ten thoufand times more fignificant, 
 ' earneft and fharp, againft that curled bitter Stock of Hirelings, they 
 'had been but enough, and I would then fav not enough-, but that 
 
 'the 
 
 >- 
 
j 2 8 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 • ms James ' the Reverence I bear to the Holy Spirit,would oblige me to acquielce 
 Naylor, W. ' j n whatever he Ihould utter, thro' any Prophet or Servant of the 
 ^""/fT ' Lord ; * and we have nothing for them but Woes and Plagues, who 
 T fmthlt»iT ' have made drunk the Nations, and laid them to Sleep on the 
 n»f*rm*'d in- ( Downey -Beds of foft fin-pleafing Principles, whilft they have cut 
 u Briftol t t their Purfes, and pick'd their Pockets \ Topbcts prepared for them 
 wSam.C*- < t o aft their Eternal Tragedy upon, whofe Scenfes will be renewed, 
 p^'flXr *»• ' direful angutfhing Woes of an Eternal Irreconcilable Juftice,* &c. 
 tnongjl them, Again, faith the lame W. Penn, in his Book. The Guide Mijiaken^ 
 then lading g^. p. 1 8. c And whilft the Idle, Gormandizing Priefts of England, 
 •"s^'A 1 ' run away w,t ^ aoove F»^ een hundred thoufand Pounds a Year, un- 
 Didit'atedt» i der pretence of being God's Minifters •, and, that no fort of Peo- 
 the King's c pie, have been fbuniverfally, thro' Ages, the very Bane of Soul and 
 Lieutenant in 'Body, to the Univerfe, as that abominable Tribe ; for whom, 
 Ireland, ire. c the Theatre of God s moft Dreadful Vengeance wait, to aft their 
 
 J. 1, », 117. C Etemal Traged y up0n .* 
 
 • lie Guide Well, let us hear W. Penn once more, what he faith of theTeach- 
 Miftaken, &c ers of the Presbyterians, Independants, Baptifts, &c. Quaker ij'm a 
 P ,8 ' ncwNickname^&c.p. i6<>.viz. ' An 111 bred, and Pedantick Crew ; 
 
 ' the Bane of Realon, and Peft of the World •, the old Incendiaries to 
 c Mifchief and the beft to be lpared ofMankind ; againft whom,the 
 ' Boiling Vengance of an irritated God , is ready to be poured out, 
 
 * Q#ak. * new c t0 tne i>.-ftruftion offuch, if they repent not, * Vc. 
 
 &c. J."j6j. Reader, you fee, here is nothing but Hell and Damnation, for the 
 Minifters of all Cb.rifti.an Societies : Pray let us hear their Opinion 
 of the Church of England in general, and that may give their fenfe 
 of all other Churches, fincellee, they make little (if any,) diffe- 
 rence of their Teachers^w>s. ' And as for the Purity of the Church of 
 1 England, it's out of our light ; we can fee a great deal of Impurt- 
 
 • The iimoamy c ty. Corruption, and Soul-fickneis in it: Indeed, they fay enough 
 Mdcmfcien. < of themfelves, to caule all wholibm, found, undemanding Peo- 
 citufmfi tfjhn p»e, tolhunthem, and their Church and Worlhip, as Men fhun 
 p 7 Pointed C a conra gi° us Difeafe or Infeftion,* &c. To which, let me add but 
 i66+- one Paffage more, (tho' I mighr One hundred) oi' Mr. Penn's, who 
 
 • By this, who can exprefs himfelf as well, and as much according to the Quakers 
 would have Ancient Teftimony, as any Man amongft them : And briefly thus, 
 Perm had been VIZ - 'Come tell me, ye of the Church of England, whence came 
 f> mar of Kin ' your Forms of Prayer and Church Government ? Are they not the 
 u them, a/few 'OfFfpring of that Idolatrous Popilh Generation. * which isabo- 
 Utter Siting* i m inable t0 tne God of Heaven > Are you not at, Have mercy upon 
 ABriefHift. ^ ! *^mifcr able Sinners ? There is no Health in us from Seven to 
 of ^uakerifm, "Seventy, t 
 
 &c. p.44, to Reader, W. Penn tells his Reader, in his Serious Apol. tS'c. p. yp. 
 j8, idj.to That his defigned Method in his Anfiver, is not the common Road 
 t Truth Ex- of Printing his Adverlaries Words at Luge, on all occafkns j lb I tell 
 alced,^- pp. thee, 
 
From Quakerifm to Christianity. 129 
 
 thee, yet in many Caies I recite the whole : However, by this time, 
 you have not only an account of the high Value the Quakers fet upon 
 themfelves, as in the former Chapter, but of their debafing the Pro- 
 teftant Minifters and Churches, as a pack of Drunkards, Whore- ' 
 
 mongers, with an etcetera, worfe than Mountebanks -, a curled bitter 
 Stock of Hirelings, a Pedantick Crew, the beft to be fpared of Man- 
 kind , againft whom, the Boyling Vengeance of God is referved,&V. 
 and who deferve nothing but Plagues and Woes, Hell and Damna- 
 tion, yea, Pick-pockets, Cut-purfes, &c. that the People ought to 
 Ihun as a Peft-houfe, with too much of that Nature to be here 
 inferred ; efpecially, adding what in The Piffure of gjiakerifm, &c. 
 is let forth on this Head : And does it not amount to a iuft Provoca- 
 tion to any Child, to fee fuch foul Afperfions, and horrible Slanders, 
 call upon his Mother, from whofeBreafts of Confolation, he hath 
 received gteat Confolation and Comfort, both to vindicate her, and 
 to fet forth what manner of Men they are, that thus feandalize his 
 Mother-Church, not only privately in their Chimney-Corners, but 
 in their Meetings, yea, in Print, in all Cities, Towns and Villages ? 
 &c. G. Whitehead faid, That God laid a neceflity upon him, to judgment 
 write his Book, Judgment jix-ed, 6fc. where he called me, and o- Fi«d, &c. 
 thers, Apojiate informers, Treacherous Hypocrites, Fa/J'e Brethren^?®' 
 Deceitful Workers, Betraying Judas s, Devils Incarnate, Dogs, 
 Wolves, Raging Waves* &c. And his God laying fuch a neceflity 
 upon him, thus to Write and Rail, in Vindication of Quakerifm, he 
 adds, And in the dij charging my Duty, I neither confult Events, nor 
 fear Effetfs. Now, in Anlwer, I cannot pretend to fuch an imme- 
 diate Motion as the Quakers do ; but I do really think my felf in point 
 of Duty and Confidence, to hear thefe Teftimonies againft the foul 
 Afperfions of thefe Railing Rabjhekds, and have both confulted and 
 considered the Events that may enfue, and hope well of the ErFe£ts 
 that may follow, even the Confutation of their Teachers, and Con- 
 viction of their Hearers •, and I hope,the Converfion of the Sincere a- 
 monglt them. And now to the Men, and what manner of Men they 
 are, that thus undermine the Chrifiian Religion, Miniftry and VVor- 
 Ihip: And thus much by way of Introduction to the CAGE of 
 UNCLEAN BIRDS. 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 Note, Reader, That George Fox (the Firft Bird in the CAGE,) ^ „// P(ipIe 
 did caufe John Fremell, CbriJ'. Gilhorn, Ju.K.iylcr, and others, fnfefmg.the 
 to go down upon their Knees before him, publickly before Friends ; •»«■««' Truth, 
 (which is Idolatry ,) and then and there, upon their Knees, to &c- , ?: 6 „ 
 make their Conleffion, and own Judgment upon what be charged wooi," <* 
 them with, before he would own them, or receive them into the 
 Unity amoneft Friends, £?V. p. 5. 
 
 S BABYLON 
 
IJO 
 
 The Pilgrim 7 s Progrefi, 
 
 BABYLON is fallen \is fallen \and 
 is become theHabitation 0/ DEVILS, 
 and the Hold of every foul SPIRIT, 
 and 'a CAGE of every Unclean and 
 ilatejul BIRD. 
 
 For her Si /is have reached unto 
 Heaven, and God hath remembered 
 her Iniquity, Rev. 1 8. 2, 5. 
 
 Reward Her even .r> She hath 
 Rewarded you, and double unto Her 
 double, according to Her Works : 
 In the Cup which She hath filled, fill 
 to Her double. 
 
 Re Joyce over Her, thou Heaven, 
 and ye Holy Apojlles and Pro- 
 phets ; for GOD hath avenged 
 you on Her, Yer. 6, 20. 
 
 Reader, 
 
From Quakerifm to Chrifiianity. iji 
 
 Reader, I am now about opening the C A G E ; and fhall take 
 • out Twelve of the Birds, and open their Wings, and fpread their 
 Feathers i to the intent thou maift view them, and note their Fea- 
 tures, and obferve their Natures and Difpofitions ■, and Geo. Jwr,the 
 CAGE-KEEPER, fhall be over and above ; with fome little'Obfer- 
 vations upon him ; and the rather, becaufe G. Wb/tebead has denied, 
 * That the Quakers call him their Branch, their Star, their Son of* i n his Sofa 
 Righteoufnefs, &c. I remember, that about the Year 1662. Geo.Expoft. Sec 
 Fa* came into the IfleofE/y, and at his Meetings, great part of his P- **» * 8 - 
 Difcourfe was about the CAGE of UNCLEAN BIRDS, faying, 
 The Church of England, (as in his Epiflle to be read in Churches,) 
 andtheProfeffbrs, were a CAGE of UNCLEAN BIRDS 5 and the 
 Note he made them fing, was thus, Come Epifcopals, How do you 
 fing in the CAGE ? Anfw. No Perfection here, no Perfection here ■, 
 welLcome you Presbyterians, Independants, and Baptifo; VVhatfay 
 you i How do you fing ? Let us hear your Note. Anfw. No Perfetti- 
 on here, no Perfection here. Then laid George, Come out of the 
 CAGE, in a very Comical manner. Thus did he deride the Profef- 
 fersof Chriftianity, exalting themfelves; a Figure of which, you 
 have in Geo. Whitehead's Sermon in the Thirteenth Chapter : And 
 now you fhall hear, how his BIRDS Chirrup, and what Note they 
 fing to his Lute. But to underftand this rightly, I think it necefla- 
 ry, to give you a brief Defcription of Geo. Vox •, that fb, when you 
 hear fix of the Birds of one fort fing to his Tune, and dance after his 
 Pipe, you may the better underftand, whether they do not call him 
 their Branch, &c. 
 
 FIRST, He (G. ¥ox,) a great Liar, like Mahomet, a great Sedu- 
 cer, like Symon Magus, a vain Boafter, like Ignatius Loyola, faying, 
 ' That neither he nor his Name was known in the World * ■, when * several Pttt. 
 there was not ten Men in the whole Nation, more univerfally known t l°»' j/ "f v " re *> 
 
 SECONDLY, In that he taught 'That he that hath the fame p-tfo ' 
 c Spirit that raifed up Jefus Chrift, is equal with God ; that he * SauiV &. 
 'was before Languages were, and that he was come to the end of r £! d ' &c ' P 8 - 
 'Languages.* SS^ 
 
 ' THIRDLY, In that he taught, 'That he was come to fuch a ful &*' 
 ' nefs of Glory, as that his Head and Ears was filled full of Glory , t The Examt*. 
 'yea, that a Thundring Voice anfwered him, faying, I glorifie thee,' 1" d J ryd "f 
 ' and will glorifie thee again f ; alluding to John 1 2. 28, 29. Lancafter"V 
 
 FOURTHLY, In that he laid, ' Davids Sepulcher was with they'«,&c. 
 ' QiiakeiSjand that they had^een it *. An abominable Lie, like that P- - ' • , 
 of Mahomet's Journey up to Heaven, upon an Afs. \ Tn,tb ' s &• 
 
 FIFTHLY, In faying, 'That if ever People own the Prophets £*«. 
 ' and Apoftles Writings, they will own the Writings ofthe Quakers ; ' Several p e - 
 'and that they may as well condemn the Scriptures to the Fire, as'*'""" ■~ n fi" rm 
 ' their Papers and Queries, * &t. J*jj» P 3 8 - 
 
 ^ 2 SIXTHLY, /««, p.2.104; 
 
i j 2 The Pilgrims Progrefe, 
 
 SIXTHLY, In that he taught, that he wrought Mtracfo?,*; and 
 yet never wrought a Miracle, in the Name of Jefus of Nazareth all . 
 
 * Fox's jour- nis D-iys > ( on ty *° me Ly ln g Wonders forged out of his Luciferian 
 tu! tht Tiiird Brain, without any Atteftation, like Symon M agus.) 
 
 ■ Mac. SEVENTHLY, In that he taught, That the Breach of the Eighth 
 
 Commandment, Tl.wujhalt not Steal, was no Sin, if moved thereto 
 
 t G Vox's by the Spirit oj the Lor J f. In this, Fox, if not a Ranter, yet joined 
 
 o>. at bi)flt>y, with them ; and lb are all that own his Dottrine. 
 
 &c. p. 77. EIGHTHLY, In that he taught, ' That to call the Scriptures the 
 ' Word of God, was Blafphemy -, whilft that he, yea, even he, cal- 
 
 * w»j to the c lecl his own ^ Writings, the Word of God ■, and frequently, the 
 Kingdom,&cc. ' Word of the Lord. * 
 
 P- 4- NINTHLY, In teaching, ' That if Chrift that's Crucified be not 
 
 S '?"m\utT" ' w $" n ' an(1 tnat thrift that's Rifen be not within, I fay, that ye are 
 
 %^Hii» K c Reprobates. Now, I lay, that if there be any other Chrift than 
 
 Truth, &c. 'he that's Crucified within, he is a falfe Chrift; and he that hath 
 
 ' net this Chrift that was Rifen and Crucified within, is a Reprobate. 
 
 c Tho' Devils and Reprobates make a talk of him without, God's 
 
 ' Chrift is not i^/ST/A CTfrom his Saints,nor his Body(the Church •,) 
 
 'for he is within them, not DISTIXCT from their Spirits : And 
 
 c thou fayft, thouartfavedby Chrift without thee, and fo hath re- 
 
 *"G- Fox'/ ' corded thy felf a Reprobate ; and they that profels Chrift without 
 
 cr. Myfl. &c <. them, and another Chrift within them, here is two Chrifts. * — 
 
 Lo 0< 254. 07 ' -^ n ^ t0 con fi rrn this falfe Doctrine, fee Edzc. Burroughs Anlwer to 
 
 ' 'a Queftion,and William Smith's to his Child; which are as followeth. 
 
 ^.tery, ' Is that very Man, (laid the Minifter to Burrough,) with 
 
 ' that very Body, within you ? Yea, or Nay. 
 
 * v .v. Burrough Anfwers, ' The very Chrift of God is within us -, we dare 
 Works,?. i 4 $>. not deny him. * 
 
 £>jtery, ' How may I know when Chrift is truly Preached ? 
 W. Smith's Aniwer. ' They that are falfe (Minifters,) Preach 
 'Chrift without, and bid People believe in him, as he is in Heaven 
 
 * Smith'/ 'above: But they that are Chrift's Minifters, Preach Chrift with- 
 Primmtr, SVc. ' in, * (fc. 
 
 R- 8 - .. Now, Reader, if this Doclrine be found and Orthodox, then were 
 
 all the Apoftles, Martyrs, and all Chriftian Minifters, falfe Teachers 
 and Deceivers •, but, if this Do&rine be Heterodox, then the Qua- 
 kers only axe the falfe Teachers, Deceivers, and Antichrifts. W. Venn 
 alio, is one with Fox, Burrough and Smith. See his Chriftian Qua. 
 and Div.Teft. p. 97, 98. and his Sandy Foundation, p. 21. 
 
 TENTHLY, George Fox fpeaking of his own Rife out of the 
 North, gives his Book this Title, 'News coming up out of the 
 '■•North, founding towards the South; written (by Fax,) from the 
 'Mouth of the Lord, from one who is Naked, and ftands Naked 
 'before, the Lord, cloathed with Righteoufhefs, whole Name is 
 
 'not 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. i J; 
 
 c not known in the World, rifenoutof the North, which was pro- 
 c phefied of,f and now fulfilled. f Query, by 
 
 Thus much briefly touching this Blafphemous Bird ; which, be- whatProphet? 
 ing the Matter of the AlTembly, and firft Founder of this Seel:, 
 he {hall not be of the number of the Twelve intended, viz. Six 
 of each fort, which now (hall follow in their Order, the 
 firft Six being of the fame Feather, witneffing to their Forerunner, 
 and great Apoftle •, who.tho' he once faid he had a Celeftial Body* ; * Before two 
 that he had Power to bind and loofe whom he plea fed, yet his Bo- cr ^ ,b,eWlc- " 
 dy proved an Earthy one, and is dead and gone ; and for Ibme being' fHil 
 Years, whilft living amongft them, was like a Statue, or an Infen- alive, 
 ble Image, which could fcarce lee or underftand, being grown Cor- 
 pulent, and in bulk of two or three Men ; and fa doled away his 
 time with ftrong Liquors and Brandy, who left thefe Words for 
 W. Rogers, John Raunce, Anne Doeicra; and others, who had op- 1 Tfiis .was" 
 pofed his Tyranny and Ufurpation, vis. And as for this Spirit ^Printed in 
 Rebellion and Oppofition that hath rifen formerly and lately, it is g *{t\^ e *I ]y r 
 out of the Kingdom of God, and Heavenly Jerufalem, and is for and Re-prm- 
 Judgment and Condemnation, uith all its Books, Words and ted in Fox's 
 
 Works, f Journal, 1694. 
 
 J Oh thou North of England, who art counted as Defolate and ? '££„ h tne 
 ' Barren, and reckoned the leaft of the Nations ; yet out of thee Firft Bird of 
 * did the Branch (Fox) lpring, and the Star (Fox) arife, which the Blafphe- 
 ' gives Light unto all the Regions round about; in thee, the Son "? ous Six - See 
 j ofRighteoufnefs (Fox) appear'd , out of thee Kings, Priefts, and&JS*. 
 ' Prophets, did come forth, in the Name and Power of the moft ammgfi 
 'High ( meaning Hubberthorn.liov.gi 7, Burrougb, Famfworth, Kay- Mends, p. 19.^ 
 ' let; Aikinfon, Whitehead, 8tc. ) which uttered their Voices as 
 ' Thunders, &c. 
 
 Thus has Burrougb ecchoed back, and confirmed Fox his Im- 
 pofture, faying Amen to his Blafphemy, alluding to Micab 5. 2. to 
 Matth. 2. 5, 6. as more largely handled in my Book, Neva RomeXJn- 
 matk'd, &c. p. ip, to 88. and New Rome Arraign d, &c. />. 5 6 7. 
 And I marvel at Whitehead's Impudency to deny it f 5 but to'make it \ In his Sober 
 clear, and paft his Exception, if pofiible, let's take out more Birds Expofruiari- ' 
 but he that will deny Burroughs Book to have this Title, This is on- on > ?• **» 5 Sl ' 
 ly to go amongfl Friends, which is the only, and all the Title -, and 
 , which Book I have by me •, what will not fuch a Fellow deny ? 
 
 Dear Geo. Fox, who art the Father of many Nations -^ rehofe W'* 1 ' Coalt ' 
 Life hath reached through us thy Children; even to the JJles afar fird?^ ™* 
 of, to the begetting many again to a lively Hope$ for whieh,Gene- 
 rations to comeJhaU call thee Blejfed, whofe Being and Habita- 
 tion is in the Power of the Higheff, in which thou (Geo. Fox) 
 
 Ruteg, 
 
1 34 The Pilgrim's Progrejl, 
 
 , r, t . ANumb Rulefiand Governs in Rlghteoufnefs : And THY KING- 
 1,4,7,19. DOM k ESTABLISHED in PEACE; and the 
 
 ^^■^INCREASE THEREOF IS WITHOUT END* 
 
 UM I*». Thus then is it plain, That both Burrougb and Coale call'd G. 
 
 Ldki.ji.jj-Euf, comparatively, the BRANCH, the SON ofRIGHTEOUS- 
 
 />/. 9. 6, 7. NESS ; yea, Chrift. * 
 
 sol. Ecder, the Stand up Muggleton, thou Sorcerer ; whofe Mouth k full 
 
 Third Bird- ofCurfing, Lies and Blafphemy $ who calls thy loft Bool^ a Lool^ 
 fng-Glafs for Geo. Fox, vohofe NA M E thou art not worthy 
 to take into thy Mouth j who k a Prophet indeed, and hath been 
 faithful in the Lord's Bufinefs from the beginning : It was faid 
 ofChrifi, that he was in the World, and the World was made 
 
 t John (.19. \>y him, and the World knew him not f -^ SO it may be faid of 
 
 riTnTAr!-' 1 " t,}is true Prophet, (Geo. Fox) whom John faid he was not; 
 
 fwer'd, &c but thou wilt feel this Prophet one Day as heavy as a Milljione 
 
 * S° thefirft u P on thee; and alt ho' the World knows him not* , yet he k 
 
 Infbmce of known, &C. The §iuah$rs Challenge, p. 6. 
 
 the ten, about Thus do they all agree, that Fox is their Star, their Branch, Sic. 
 
 Bx ~ For if he be Chrift, as Ecclcs faith ; if he had a Kingdom eftablifh- 
 
 ed, of whole Encreafe there never was to be an end, as Coale 
 faid -, then he was Chrift, and fo the Branch, the Star, (Jfc. as 
 Burrougb faid-, and indeed as they all mean, elie they would con- 
 demn thefe Blafphemous Books ; but inftead thereof, this Letter of 
 Coale 's is vindicated in their Book, Judas and the Jews, p. 44. in 
 all its parts. A fmall Treadle, wrote in Alisbury Prilbn, the 3d. 
 Month, 1661. by J. Whitehead, where he faith, In the Tear 1648. 
 
 W At" God, who had Companion on hk People, did caufe a BRANCH 
 Fourth Eird. tofpring forth of the Root of David, which was filled with Ver- 
 tues, for the Covenant of Life, and Peace was in him : And he 
 Calculated; (Fox) Jpread, and foot forth many Branches, which did par- 
 for about take of the Fatnefs of the Root, and the Weary came to Reft un- 
 roif 'in *the ^er hk (FoxV) Branches 5 and in him (Fox) was alfo the 
 North, only Word of Reconciliation, which turned the Hearts of the Fa- 
 fpfead forth i/xrs t0 the Children, and the Difobedient to the Wifdom of the 
 his Branches J, /ft. And in the Tear 1652. J (John Whitehead) being a 
 till about Q r . ;m . f) jr thk j rce ^ (f ox ) t J :c l;f e f its Rut caii f ec l me to 
 
 Bhflm, and bring forth Fruit for the Spirit, as a Key opened 
 his (FoxV) Trcajh\\ and fie.ved me (tor he was before Lan- 
 guages were) that which was from the beginning. Read p. 4, 5 . 
 of the fame ireatife. 
 
 Thus 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. i j y 
 
 Thus then has this John Whitehead put all out of Doubt, and 
 quite confuted Geo. Whitehead, and overthrown all his Arguments, 
 byconfeffing Matter of Faft. If I have made Whitehead oppofe 
 Whitehead, tisnomore than in other Cafes I have done \ for the ' 
 
 ^liakers having no Bottom, no Solid Foundation •, but all {peaking • 
 
 as their Light move them, it's eafie to fee how they interfere and 
 jarr; onlyG. W. has this Faculty •, he can othenvife word hk matter, 
 and yet jnean the fame : A right Jefuit, a Do&rine firft Coyn'd ' 
 in their Mint, and only ferve to their Ends ; whole Work has 
 been to fow Divifions, make Rents, and beget Schifms, &c. The 
 next Bird (hall be John Audland^ in a Letter of his to G. Fox, from 
 the Weft of 'England; an Abftra£t thereof is as follows, viz. 
 
 Dear and Precious one, in whom my Life if bound up. and my „, . ., , 
 Strength in thee Stands 5 by thy breathings 1 am nourijhed , by the FifthBird. 
 thee my Strength is renewed 5 Blejjed art thou for evermore, 
 and Bleffed are all that enjoy thee : Life and Strength comes 
 
 from thee, Holy One •■> daily do L find, thy Prefence with me, 
 
 which doth exceedingly preferve me, for L cannot reign but in 
 thy Prefence (Fox) and Power: Pray for me, that L may Ji and 
 in thy Dread (Fox) for evermore Lam thine, (Fox) Begot- 
 ten and Nourified by thee ^ and in thy Power (Fox) am L 
 prefervd :, Glory unto thee (Fox) Holy One for ever. 
 
 Reader, Thefe are the Birds in the Cage ; tell me, are they not 
 all of a Feather ? Do they not all agree in the main, That G. Fox was 
 the fakers BRANCH and STAR; yea, their All in All j the 
 Bottom, and Corner, and Top-Stone of their Building ? Pray 
 fpare me the Pains of a large Comment j I rhink there is no need •, 
 he that runs may read, and he that reads may underftand the Foun- 
 dation of £>uakerifm , no marvel then if it wither ; no marvel if it 
 fall like a Millftone into the bottom of the Sea, never more to rife. 
 But let me add another Bird, fince I have Plenty, &c. p. 77. 
 
 Here followeth the Tejiimony and Certificate <?/John Blaikling JobiBlaikJing r 
 to the clearing of the Afperfons that William Rogers, Sec. cafi ^ e iixth 
 upon Geo. Fox, that's bleffed with Honour above many Bre- 
 thren 5 and that thoufands will Jiand by him in a Heavenly Re- 
 cord unto the Lntegrity of hk Soul to Truth, that fiiU lives with 
 him : That his Life Reigns, and is Spotlcfs, Lnnocent, and (till 
 retains hk Integrity, whofe ETERNAL HONOUR 
 *nd BLESSED RE NO WN (hall remain 3 yea, his 
 Prefence, and the dropping of hk Tender Words in the Lord's f Th« Chri- 
 
 Love. was my Souls Nourifiment, &c. f ft'«n fi"«*- 
 
 ' J j ■> \ difting. dv. 
 
 5tJ». Part, 
 
 Come^. 77. 
 
ij6 The Pilgrim's Trogrefs, 
 
 Come, George Whitehead, give me thy Hand &&, I'll take thee 
 out of the Cage, and do thee this Honour, not to be a Partner 
 with the laft Six Blafphemous Birds, but asaWitnefs for them-, 
 ,. that we may hear what thou canft fay on their Behalf: But I'll 
 
 put thee in again, and keep thee there, left thou fiyeft up and down 
 the Nation, anddomoreMifchief Oh George! thou an a plump 
 Bird ; thou'rt grown fat, I find ; well, what canft thou lay. 
 
 1 affirm, thatG. Fox does deny the fame (i. e. thefe Divine Attri- 
 butes) in reference to him/elf, as a particular Man or Per/on, 
 idhofe Days and Tears are limited $ only the Truth of the bnmortal 
 Seed) Chrijl in him, he flands to maintain againft all Oppofers 
 
 • Judgment a "d Apoftates :* And as to his (Francis Bugg'j) Charge of Idola- 
 fixed, &c try-) if not Blafphemous Names and Titles given to Geo. Fox inccr- 
 f. 19- tain Letters — how proves he (Fran. Bugg) that they gave and in- 
 tended thofe Titles to the Per/on of Geo. Fox, and not to the Life 
 
 flnnocency of ' Chrijl in him? f 
 
 againft Envy, How, George ! I'll tell thee how, becaufe Jofiah Coale faid, Dear 
 . ' *' ' ' G.Fox,&c.by this I know they intended Geo. Fox ; -for if they had in- 
 tended thofe Titles to the Life of Chrift in him, they would have 
 directed their Letters fuitably ; faying, Dear Life of Chrifi in 
 Geo. Fox,fJfc. This I hope will latisfie thee, if Reafon could take 
 place ; if not, I defpair of giving thee or thy Friends Satisfaction. 
 But George, for thy Comfort, if thou wilt mean as thou fay'ft, ac- 
 cording to the Import of thy Words ; and on that Foot, retra£t and 
 condemn thefe thy Fallacious Covers and Excufes, and thy own Ap- 
 parent Errors •, and the Errors in thy Friends Books, which thou 
 haft moft impudently gloffed over •, with thy Hypocritical Paint, 1 
 will take thee out of the Cage ; if not, there lye forever, finging, 
 Here kPerjcR ion, herekPcrfeltion, iS'c. Thus much (hall lerve, 
 
 * A Sober' in anfwer to G. IF s Book, * as well as to fhew what manner of 
 ExpoftuLni- Birds are in the Cage, of this fort, namely, Blafphemers and Ido- 
 dn, &e. p. i a ters •, and next, let me take out Six of the other fort, namely, of 
 5+. SJ. 5 • t j ae i r Vicious Teachers, againft whom G. Whitehead would not 
 
 write a Book, for the World. No, ferioully, I believe him, his Sin- 
 cerity is lb true to their Ancient Teftimony ■, befides, if he fhould, 
 there being fo few of them clear, that here would be Hell broke 
 loofe -, for if they fhould write one againft another, all would come 
 out, and then they'd appear a dark fort of Quakers indeed. 
 chrijiophtr At- And Chrift. At hi nf on wasG. Whiteheads Fellow -Traveller, Fel- 
 Lnjin, the low-Sufferer, Fellow-Writer, and Fellow-Preacher: But 16 it was, 
 butX fuft *a* ht got Urfula, the Maid-Servant of The. Symonds, with Child, 
 ofthe laft Six, when he was a Sufferer for their Ancient Teftimony in. Nofvdicbt 
 bcfoie-menti-Gr.//; but this was not all, for he broke Prifon, ftoie Goods, and run 
 m ' d - away ; I have his Confeflion in print, Signed by John Stubbs, Jl'jl- 
 
 diamGotteitj and Tbomai Symonds : And its Worth noticing, to ice 
 
 what 
 
From Quaker ifm to Chriftianity. 1 37 
 
 what Grief Atkinfon was in, becaufe it difhonouf d the Caufe of 
 Sguakerifm, in that it could not be kept private from the Knowledge 
 of the World's People : But not a Word of Confeffion of Sin to God, / 
 
 nor asking his Pardon for Chrift's fake. But to the fecond, * 
 
 STEP HE A r CR IS P, in his Circuit, going to Norwich, by Stefan Crifp, » 
 Mendlejham, in Suffolk, Robert Duncon advifed him to carry it the Eighth 
 wifely at Norwich ; for ( faid he ) my Kinfman, Samuel Duncon, 
 is a Man of a Timorous (or Brittle) Difpofition. Well, away 
 goes 5/. Crifp to Norwich, fets up his Horfe at the Place allotted 
 tor their Teachers Horfes, and then goes to Samuel Duncon s Houfe ; 
 but Samuel not being at home, Stephen takes up Samuel's Wife in- 
 to the Chamber : Anon Samuel comes home, where is my Wife ? 
 (fays he to the Maid) She's gone up the Chamber, (laid fne) with 
 Stephen Crifp. Well, Samuel walks up and down the Houfe ; he 
 rubs his Elbows, icratches his Head, and very melancholy he was ; 
 fo between Nine and Ten of the Clock (as I was told by fbme 
 Shakers that knew it) down came Stephen and Sam's Wife : And 
 this bred great Difcontent between Sam. and his Wife, f but t She was* 
 Stephen wanted no Boldnefs to carry it off. Many fuch Stories we very handfom 
 had of him, knowing him to be very Light and Airy, and a great , Woma "> ai j d 
 Lover of ftrong Wines and Waters of 8 s. a Pint, and many of us too^eiSJjjgf 
 looked upon him little better than a Ranter, if not aa Atheift ■, W. C 
 can enlarge on this Subjett no doubt. If any queftion the Truth 
 of this, let them go to Jofeph Carver, Tho.Budderyiv, if living, and 
 other ancient Quakers in Norwich, and they can tell you more of 
 this : As alio of Thomas Murford, another of G. Fox's Preachers, 
 who ufed to lay Plaifters to fome Parts of Samuel s Wife, which oft- 
 times did Incommode her Husband. This is fo well known at Nor- 
 ivich, that none but G. W. will have the Face to deny it : But if he 
 do, IwillfetW.I. and W. Mires to talk with him, about that, and 
 lbme other things. 
 
 THO. LE ACOCK lived at Emny, in Norfolk, two Miles *»• £"**» 
 diftance from Wisbech, is the Bird I am now taking out of the Cage -,Bkd. 
 his Fore part is like a Rook, but his Claws like a Kite, or fome 
 Bird of Prey; he was one of Geo. Whitehead's great Affiftants, 
 both in Preaching and Difputing, and whom George m.ntions * as * See his Se- 
 fuch. Tliis Leacock was a notorious Drunkard, only (like fbme r """ A i tlt &l> 
 others of their Teachers, as well as Hearers, of the Epicurean fort) *' 3 " 
 a private one: But to be f hort, fo it fell out, that upon a time, be- 
 ing at a Neighbour's Houfe, where Drink was free; he was fb 
 drunken, that going out to "make Water, he ftagger'd, and fell back- 
 ward into a Ciftern, made to catch Rain-Water ; that had they not 
 from within heard him fall like a Millftone, he had been drown'd 
 in that little Sea ; but from that he was by ftrong Hands faved, yet 
 he broke his Bladder, and was forced to wear a Difh in his Breeches, 
 
 T to 
 
i}8 The Pilgrim* s Progreft, 
 
 to catch his Water, to his dying Day : And his Wife ftill contirru'd 
 the lame Trade (if not dead within a Year,) who will fit and drink 
 1 Brandy till f he is fd drunken.that (he will p— -Is as (he fits. Let her 
 
 f then be hereby caution'd to take Warning by the Misfortune of 
 
 her Sifter Qiiakir -Woman in London , who, about three or four 
 Months fince, being drunken with Brandy, and alone, the Fire by 
 Accideut, ifnot in Judgment, took hold of her Cloaths, and (as I 
 am credibly inform'd) was burnt alive in her drunken Fit: But let 
 it be noted, that the laid Leacock was a Man extream zealous a- 
 gainft Ribbonds and Laces ; in a word, for every Commandment of 
 G. Fax. And moreover, as a Work of Super-errogation, he was ex- 
 cellent to convey away a Female Sifter, if things fell out crofs, 
 that ib Truth might not be diihonour'd, by the World's People 
 knowing of it. 1 remember well, that about the Year 1662. there 
 was a noted Qitakcr got his Maid with Child-, and The. heacock 
 took her into Norfolk, and a&ed fo wifely in it, that I do think 
 it never was heard of by the World's People ; and for which he has 
 had many a hot butter'd Loaf: I will not fay what elfe ; Money an- 
 fwers all things. 
 •johnbfame the JOHN MO ONE is the Tenth in number: He was anex- 
 iTenthEird. cellent Orator, a great Travelling Preacher, and of great Fame a- 
 mongft the Quakers ; of which I need not lay much in this place -, 
 if the Reader be pleafed to turn back to the Fourth Chapter, he 
 fhall fee him amongft the Worthies, one of the Eleven Elders, Ten 
 of them I have named, one half of them Cage Birds; pray obferve 
 from thence what Judges and Elders the Quakers Body is, to which 
 the poor Hearers rauft fubmit ; 'tis well worthy thy notice. However, 
 after many Years Preaching, and fuffering Imprifbnment for G. Fox's 
 *■ Caufe in England, he went into Penjilvania, and was a great Preacher 
 
 there, and a Juftice of Peace foriooth under the Honourable W. Venn : 
 But he could not leave his Vicious Habit j for he firft got his Maid 
 with Child, and fo purfued that Courfe of Life, until he died of 
 the foul Difeafe : I would have the Quakers look into Geo. White- 
 head's Sermon, and compare it with the Cage of their Unclean 
 Birds, all Writers and Preachers, and I hope it will humble them, 
 tho' my Verfes did not, which yet were Intelligible to them ; for I 
 was loth to expofe them, hecaufe I do believe, that amongft the 
 Hearers,, there are many honeft-minded People ; but I verily believe, 
 that according to the number of the Qj<akerTeachers y compar'd with, 
 the Multitude of the Clergy, and other Proteftant Teachers : I fay, 
 where there is one of the laft mention'd chargeable with Vicious 
 Immoralities, there is a Hundred of the Quaker Teachers ^ yet how 
 ■ifieehisFook ^pudenrly have W. Venn, and the reft of that Gang, befpattered 
 afcOwAwi-'the Clergy, Vtfupra: And particularly W. Venn, f viz,.. But to 
 
 juk«,.&c.t, exCM jr t tffo Brazen Impudence, a/id Hjpocrife hk Hackney 
 
 * ■"""" Mercenary 
 
From Quakerifm to ChriAianity. 139 
 
 Mercenary Spirit — He (Jonathan Clapham) boldly calls Chrijl 
 his Redeemer, not obferving how unfuitable his Life and Do~ 
 ftrine is with the Redeemed of the World f For rvhofoever > 
 
 is Redeemed by Chrijl, is pcrfe&ly Jo, in as much as all hk 
 Works are perfcff : Bat as this Guide ( Mr. Claphams ) 
 Converfation manifefls the contrary, by his VE RT G RE AT 
 MISCARRIAGES *—Nor is there any thing fo much * A bafe Sug- 
 Jlumble Infidels, and brings a Reproach upon the Chrifiian Re- f*$™ y ^»™ 
 ligion, as Priejls and People Writing, Talking, and Fighting n y worthy 
 hard for Chrijl, as Redeemer, whilft every Eye finds them as !" d g ?° d M 
 Polluted, and deeply Engaged in DiJIwneJl and Immoral Pra- c i lt pLm was 
 Sices, as thofe againjl whom they contend, &c. Indeed I do a Pious Man, 
 did not think the Quaker Teachers great Mifcarriages are fb viiible Liy e * e 
 to every Eye, as the Failings and Imperfections of Mr. Clafhamsfffc. 
 were. But let the Quakers firft pluck out the Beam out or their own 
 Eye, and then they {hall fee the more clearly how to remove the 
 Mote out of another's Eye : But to proceed to difcover this Beam, let 
 me take out another Bird •, namely, 
 
 THOMAS T#L t RSTOjV is the EleventhBird-, was an E- J e g^Jj; 
 minent Preacher up of G.F<?*'s Orders, Laws and Commandments, Bird, 
 and a great Favourite of Fox's, who liv'd in America • who, in his 
 Travels to fpread their Truth, pretended to the Deputy-Governor's 
 Wife, rhat he (Tbo. Thurflon) had a Motion from the Spirit ro get 
 her with Child f, (he believing him, fubmits to aTryal of Skill, f Come, w. 
 and it proved lb infallibly, the Woman's Husband being then in Old- Pe?m, was not 
 England, where he ftay'd about a Year or more-, but at length he rlli .^ a s r . eat 
 came home, and finding things bad, he examin'd his Wife drift ly w^ Ytno? ? 
 how it came to pals : She confeft, that fuch a Friend (Tbo. Tbitr- vifible to the 
 /ion) told her, that he had a Motion from God to get her with Child, Eye of the 
 and ihe was overcome by him. Well, ( J'aid her Husband ) if you D e Piity-Go- 
 will do one thing, I will forgive you ; which is, To go to the vemour ■ 
 Quakers-Meeting, and declare openly how you were deluded by 
 this Preaching Quaker. She did fo, and he forgave her 5 and as I 
 am credibly informed, many oiths Quakers thought his Motion was 
 true, he was fo eminent an Orator, and he ftill kept on fome time 
 a Preacher : And why might not G. fox allow of the Breach of this 
 Seventh Commandment, given forth by Mofes, as well as he did 
 of the Breach of the Eighth Commandments, viz. And cu for any 
 being moved of the Lord, to take away your Hour-Glafs from you, by 
 the Eternal Power, it is owned *, &c. Such Influence had Fox's Do- * Gc0 - ^j**? 
 &iine, as you may fee in thefe two Cafes, and a Hundred more lS, r "p ,7. 
 could mention-, but enough of this Bird. 
 
 T 2 Come 
 
1 40 The Pilgrim' 1 s Progrefi , 
 
 Come, George, Whatthinkeft thou of thy Brother Preacher, Thtr. 
 
 Thurjion ? He Preached amongft the Infidels 5 and if he had been 
 
 aChriftianMinifter, I do agree, it might have ftumbled them; 
 
 t but being a Quaker, and led thereto by the Spirit,it did confirm Qua- 
 
 , kerifm. George, I could be more particular ■, I could tell you of fe- 
 
 veral pretty Stories, and W. Ingram and Walter Myrcs Ihould evi- 
 dence it.I could tell you of a Cannon-Jireet Story, but you know that, 
 and many others, I could tell you ■ of a She-Preacher , who 
 went from her Husband Geo. Knight, fb long holding forth, that her 
 Husband got a By-Child or two, and at laft, marry 'd another W ife : 
 But lince that, your She Preachers keep more at home. I could tell 
 you a Story of your Meeting, to cleanfe the Camp, about John Stan- 
 ton, and others, and of Rebecca Trovers her Teftimony, which 
 would make you look more like the Synagogue of Satan, than the 
 Church of the Firft-Born, as you boaft; but I delight not in it, were 
 it not to humble you : So that, I f hall only mention one Bird more 
 atprcfent, he being a Favourite of yours, and your Brother Cater, 
 who notwithftanding his grofs Immoralities, yet you both wrote in 
 favour of him, in thefe Words, vis. ' George Smith, apoorwell- 
 
 jitdgment fx- ' meaning Man, that hath been convinced about 13 or 14 Years; 
 
 ed, &c p. 207. c and ever fince he came amongft us, hath walked uprightly according 
 
 ™ e n h ^r an ' t0 his Meafure, and hath been of a blamelefs Converfation amongft 
 
 dc-p. 1.8, 13. ' ^en, from his Youth up, &c. 
 
 Come, G. Whitehead, this is high Commendation •, but he was a 
 Man for your turn, one ftrict for Fox's Commandments, and was 
 not ungrateful to you for your high Praife and Commendation : For 
 
 *ike tiy. of as one good Deed requires another, as the Proverb is, he in p. 29. 
 
 an /ipoflate* faith, * ' I have caufe to believe better things of them all, (i. e. the 
 
 &c. p. 23. ' Quakers^ ) and for Sam. Cater, whom thou (Fra. Bugg) fbmuch 
 
 * ?*, ' aou fcft:> * know his Converfation hath been fuch amongft us, as be- 
 
 Itrrfstmfar ' comes a Man that fears God, that it is not thy Lies that can hurt 
 
 Mo'tji-r'Jex- c him ; for he hath a Witnefs in our Confidences, * for his faithful: 
 
 cufi and jujiifie c ful Service, and upright Converfation amongft us. 
 
 each other. Come, George, here is hiding, here is excufing, nay, juftifying 
 
 each other in your Abominations, like the two wicked Elders in 
 
 the Story dtSufanna, faying, Tufh, God fees us not, nor the World's 
 
 Yeople do not Anow it : And G. Smith ftanding Suit with the Mi- 
 
 A> in the n ift er f Littleport, about Tythes, he is faithful to G. Yoxs Com- 
 
 r^.."* 27 ' mandments, and is a true Son of our Church, a well-meaning Man, 
 one that hath lived uprightly ever fince he came amongft us, even 
 from his Youth up ; Oh, George ! your Hypocrifie muft come out; 
 and therefore, and for that Reafbn only, I fhall take out of the CAGE 
 this your well-meaning, upriglrt Bird, namely, George Smith, vis. 
 
 ANar- 
 
From Quakerifm to ChrifUanity. 141 
 
 A Narrative of Geo. Smiths Vprightnefs, contrarium ad 
 
 Hominem. f 
 
 GEORGE SiMJTH of Utt/eport, having a Wife of his own, Geerge Sw , itb , 
 (fince Dead,) being a Bayly for a Gentleman of the lame Town, the Twelfth 
 (whole Wife was a handlbm young Woman ;) G. Smith in time, B ' r ^ 
 grew very kind to his Wife^ the Gentleman falling Sick, gave his 
 Wife warning of G. Smith : But he dying, there was room for him 
 to accomplifh his Defign ; and fo it came to pals, that he got her 
 with Child : And the time of her Delivery drawing near, George 
 takes his Horie, and carries the Widow forth, defigning fuch a Jour- 
 ney, as that her Child lhould not be heard to cry in Littleport, nor 
 Tales thereof be told to the World's People. Welfaway they road 
 together lovingly, as if they had been Acquainted -, but e'er they got 
 two Miles, the good Woman had a Fit of the Belly -ake ; and riding 
 paft a lone Houfe, called Wood-houfe, Handing between Littleport 
 and Ely, G. Smith knocks at the Door, the ioth or 12th Day of 
 September, 168 4. upon which, out came the good Man, /'. e. Wil- 
 liam Pooley, (ftill living:) What would you have, Neighbour 
 Smith ? lays Pooley -, I defire to come in, faid George, my Friend 
 behind me is not well. Upon which, out comes the good Woman 
 of the Houfe, laying, We are preparing our Cheefe for Sturbech 
 Fair; Oh! bid George, Pray Neighbour Pooley, let us come in, 
 I will give you any Content. Upon which the Man took down the 
 Woman, who ask d, laying. Have you not a private Room ? Yes, 
 laid the good Woman of the Houfe, a Parlour \ none like it, thought 
 the Sick- Woman. So in they went, the Sick Woman, Goody 
 Pooley, and her Maid :, and in half an Hour's time, was born to G. 
 Smith, a Son ; George praying Secrecy, * and he would pay them * p ra y mind 
 well. So away goes G. Smith home to his old Wife, and all things the Quaker's 
 were Hulh and Still, as Heart could wifh ; and about a Week or Ten Method ■, keep 
 Days after, home goes the Woman as found as a Roach ■, and at the ^Ff-^^l 
 Months end, when the Babe had gotten a little ftrength, G. Smith *" 
 comes again to Goodman Pooley and his Wife, and beggs heartily 
 for their AiTvftance •, and no doubt, with this Nod, & as their ufual 
 way is, c I pray for Truth's lake, be private, left it get Air, for the 
 4 Apoftate Chriftians will make a mock at it. WellG. Smith agrees 
 to give them Five Pound to carry it 20 Miles,namely ,to Great Saxum, 
 within two Miles of Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk : Content, laid 
 they ; fo away they went by Ely, Soham, and 16 to Deafm'dg-Lodge, 
 where they ftaid one Night or two, whilft G. Smith went before 
 to provide a Nurfe ; which he foon did, at Saxum aforeiaid : For 
 Money anlwers ail things. 
 
 Well, the place being prepared, and notice of it, away goes Pooley 
 
 and 
 
\^l The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 and his Wife, with the Child, and delivered it to the Wife of John 
 
 Chapman of Sax um aforefaid, as the A£t and Deed of G. Smith. But 
 
 as ibon as Poolcy and his Wife had eat and drank, tho' wet and wea- 
 
 * ry, G. Smith pack'd them away, left the Old and New Nurfe fhould 
 
 * have a little Title-tattle together : Bat Good-man Chapman being not 
 yet come from Bury with the Writings, which were made in the . 
 
 * Forgery ; for Name of one Mr. Turner oi'lVretham, \1\N0rJ0lk, * as Father of 
 iwent to both the Child, who was called by G. Smithy Robert Turner •, but faid 
 the Wre- the New Nurfe, Is the Child Baptized? Ay, ay, fays George, all 
 
 Si7//>r 1 is d ° ne > aU is d ° ne - s ° G - Smth himfeif- ftaid ■■> and havin s di - 
 
 Maniivei there fpatch'd away Pooley and his Wife, he bought Nutts, and crack'd ; 
 tj that Name, and at la ft came Good-man Chapman with the faid Writings •, which 
 
 * 7W hefts upon his paying tp I. * were fealed ; and away goes George jogging 
 fl»rt about i os. home, as merry as a Cricket. 
 
 "53 t* faj Thls is G- Whiteheads well-meaning Man, &c. Indeed, the faid 
 
 Tut did mt. ' G. Smith's Boy is with honeft People ^ Ifawhim-, he will be 14 
 
 Years old next September, and as like his Father, NOT Turner, 
 
 BUT Smith, as you [hall fee a Lad ; and is now called Robert 
 
 Smith, and has been for fome Years, fmce they underftood things. 
 
 * G. SmithV And Secondly, Since all now is fettled, and well, and private, that 
 stcond child by the World's People do not know of it, (for that with them, in all the 
 the fame m- like Cafes, is the Principal Verb,) George and his Widow grew as 
 
 man ' loving as Pig and Lamb ; they too't again afrefh •, (he Conceives, 
 
 and grew big again, (that's the worft ©n't : ) However, the Woman 
 would not venture out again,but rely'd on her Neighbour's Fidelity : 
 The time of her Travel comes on • away goes George, helter-skel- 
 ter, for Eleanor Hall, Wife of Samuel Hall, and another faithful 
 Friend ; and the time being come, to work the? went ; and in a lit- 
 tle time, fhe was Delivered of a Daughter: And when the Child 
 attain'd to the Age of about half an fkviir. being a litde dreft up, G. 
 Smith the Father, and Eleanor hall the Midwife, carried the Child 
 at the Age afbrefaid, to alone Houfe, ftanding in the Field, called 
 the Brick Ki!l-Ho;ifi\ a Sequent Harbour for Beggars, fince out of 
 ufe ; and in goes the Woman Eleanor with this Infant.under the faith- 
 ful Promife of 'George to gratifie her, for all her T Care and 
 Pains, and to lend her and his Child, Suftenance: Ay, ay, that he 
 would -, having already re out G. Wajhington, to provide a Nurfe 
 for it; and forvvhofe return, the poor Woman Eleanor Hall, with 
 the Child, waited in that Den two Days and Nights ■, in which 
 place, Ihe was forely Affright.: for in the Dead of the Night, 
 ibmething came and fmoteher en th? Shoulder, that (he was Lame 
 ofithrmyW I Id me-herlelf: ) Moreover, lhe told 
 me, live would not do the like, again for 1 00 /. 
 
 Well, 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 1 4 j- 
 
 WelL, at Lift G. Washington came, and with him his Houfekeeper, * il>u Waft. 
 * i: and G. Smith gave him a Bagg of Money, viz. 5 /. for his in ,8 ton ylar : 
 own Care and Pains-, and 40/. to perform the Contract, which the H«/ii£p«** / 
 fiid Wajhington had a few Days before made with Goodman Owers fim,f!!r'b : J 
 of Btirrovo, within about five Miles of Bury, albreiaid. Unovdeai-, • 
 
 Well, this Female Child was bora to G. Smith, by the Widow "" rfTho - 
 aforefaid, the 28th or apth of July, n$88. being Wcdnefday ■ and JS/ *£' 
 by Mondhy, this Wajhington, and his Houfekeeper, (whom he af- m 2-rydhn\ 
 terwards Marry 'd,) carried this Child to the Sign of the Harrow in andfhi is ready 
 Fordbam ; and then away goes Wajhington to Barrow, with his 40 /. " Dt f'f e **» 'f 
 to Goodman Oners, (leaving the faid Child and Houfekeeper t o 
 Nurfe it : ) The next Day came Goodman Oarrs and his Wife, 
 with Washington • and then there was nothing but Merriment, Bro- 
 ther and Sifter at every word * : This Child was put out by the Or- ♦ viz. Betwem 
 der, and with the Money of G. Smith, in the Name of one Mr. Scott t G. Wafhing- 
 a Linnen-Draper in London f, for 40 /. but I forget fbmething which ton > Goodman 
 is remarkable-, of this 40/. there wanted 1 5 s. v;hich Wajhington ^fJ TS t * n ^ h Z 
 promifed to fend, as alfo to find it Linnen for a Year, or more -, all the Peo'pu 7f 
 which is forgot, as Good Wife Olivers averts ; and (he is a Woman the Hnfi, & c . 
 of good Repute, and the Child lives well, and looks well ; this Child t ty»g and 
 was put to Goodman Oarrs, under the Name of Mary Scott; b\it ffi/J ™ ee ,* '*' 
 they have Baptiz d the Child, and call'd it Mary Smith ■, Goodman andwlZmLn- 
 Oarrs is dead, but his Widow is alive, and lives at Risby, within ing Quaker- 
 three Miles of Bury, and fix Miles of Barton-Milk, and two fmall ?' G - White- 
 Miles diftance from Great Saxum, where the Boy lives; and this£^ a ^f' „r 
 Boy and Girl often Vifits each other : And if their Father had but £,>„" w '°' e ° x 
 that Grace to take care of them, it might mitigate his Crime ; I 
 am fure, it would have abated the Edge of my Pen -, for he is my 
 Kinfman : And were it not to Dilcover the Quakers Ways, I fhould 
 not have been fo large, and lent him a Letter to that purpoie : A » For r wg} 
 Copy of it followeth *-. *dv$d by a 
 
 COUSIN GEORGE, Gmu m *ni» 
 
 _ , Hisby, to take. 
 
 I was reqitejied by a. Gentleman in our Country, to ufe Jomefiw:.-r e aitut 
 means y that your By-Children which are put out to Nurfe in our "' 
 Country, may have fomething fettled upon them, for their future 
 Maintainance ; and purfuant thereunto, Iclodepreit of you, in 
 regard it is but reafonable andjuji, that you JI)ould do it : Where- 
 fore, I make Application to you in this private I Vay, as mofi fuita- 
 ble 5 and it may makefome amends for your Crime, and extenuate 
 the heinoufnefs of your Offence :, for itfeems to me a moji horrible 
 Crime, bejides the Sin -,. and as an Aggravation thereof, to beget 
 Children, and fend them into the World as Vagrants, they being 
 from under the Verge of the Law, and can be Heirs of nothing, but. 
 
 the 
 
1^4 Tb e Pilgrims Progrefi, 
 
 the Shame of their Parents j which altho' they cannot help it, yet 
 Willi they mar the Badge and Livery thereof as long as they live. 
 If you attjwer my Expectation in this Matter, as I have hitherto 
 ' been/paring of you, Jo If;al/ make no Complaint to any Jufiice of 
 
 the Peace; ifnetjoumaydependonit; if God give me length of 
 Days, Ifhall do what 1 legally can, to have fome thing fettled 
 on them : And therefore, let me have your Anfipcr. 
 
 I am Tour Friend and Kinfman, Francis Bugg, Sett. 
 Aug. 30. 1697. 
 
 But no Anfwer have I receiv'd fince. 
 
 Come, George Whitehead, What think you of thefe Things ? 
 Where is your Serioufhefs ? Where is your Sincerity ? You told 
 me, that your God laid a Neceflity upon you, to write againft me, 
 Epiftle to and others, wherein youcall'd me, APOSTATE INFORMER, 
 Judgment DEVIL INCARNATE, BEAST, DOG, WOLF, & c . But the 
 * Jced - before-mentioned, you fboth up, as well meaning and upright Lambs, 
 
 • and never write a Book againft them, yet three Books againft me 
 in nine Months time : And, George, then you were Rampant ; you 
 neither ftudied Events, nor feared Effects ; you -were refolved to go 
 on, come what will come ; you were refolved to Unchriftian all that 
 oppofed you, and feparated from you ; you were refolved to ruin 
 them, if poffible, both in Name, Reputation, and Eftate : I have 
 felt the weight of your Hand, and the ftrength of your Indignati- 
 on, and implacable Malice •, but, Bleffed be the God, and Father 
 of our Lord Jefus Chrift, that amongft his manifold Mercies to me, 
 that he hath vouchfafed to give me Time and Ability, to return your 
 f harp Arrows back into your own Bofbms ; and 1 let them fiy freely, 
 I am not fparing •, for as Jeremiah fiid, The Lord hath opened his 
 'Jet 50 14. Armory, and hath brought forth the Weapons of his Indignation,*. 
 ' And, George, they will light on the Skirts of this Painted Harlot; 
 and all thy Jefuitical Craft cannot throw it oft\ for your Caufe is 
 drooping. I have given you the Key of the Cage ; look into it,and you 
 may fee the Abominations of the Earth,even the Myttery of Iniquity. 
 WdUGeorge, after it came into my Heart to write this Book, I laid, 
 Shall I fpare them any longer ■> Concluding, No: But give this 
 Harlot a double Cup, and make her drink the very Dregs of 
 it : And having laid faft hold of the two main Pillars, upon 
 which your Building Hands, viz. INFALLIBILITY and PER- 
 * Judges 16. FECTION, I did with all my Might fhake*-, and behold, it 
 2 9« begins to tumble : For, George, the time is come, that one 1 hall 
 
 fDeut.32.30- chafe a Thoufand, and two lhall put TenThouland to Flight f: 
 And art thou 10 blind, George, that thou canil not fee it ? Doft thou 
 
 nor 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 14 y 
 
 not fee thy felf, and thy Brethren, ready to fall upon your own 
 
 Spears, for very Anguilh and Vexation of Spirit 2 Art thou fo 
 
 ignorant, George, that thou canft not perceive thy felf, calling to . 
 
 the Hills to hide thee, and the Mountains to cover and excufe thee *?* Sober Ex-, ' 
 
 But, George, thou haft no more Anfwer than iWs Priefts had, tho' Pj^bf an v 
 
 you call from Morning to Evening, and thump your Breafts, and leap* ap ' * 
 
 and jump from one end of your Wooden Pulpits to the other, ftamp- 1 Kings i8. ' 
 
 ing like the Friars ; yet there is no Anfwer, there is none to Pity *<*• 
 
 you, none to Mourn tor you •, no Advocate to Plead, for the flopping 
 
 the Pens that are imployed againft Quakerifm ; no, Babylon is falling, 
 
 is falling, and great will be the Fall thereof, even like a Mill-ftone 
 
 into the Sea ^ fo falls Quakerifm, never more to rife again. Amen. , 
 
 Amen. Alleluja. 
 
 CHAP. XV. 
 
 Sherveth the Enmity of the Sluakgrs againft me, for my Teftimony 
 againft their Errours j and the Providence of God fupporting 
 me under my Sufferings. 
 
 IT is not unknown to many of the Quakers ftill alive, with what 
 Zeal and Care, with what Sufferings by Fines and Imprifon- 
 ments, with what Pains and Charge I was in divers Kinds exer- 
 cifed whilft I was a Quaker, and that for the carrying on the Caule 
 of Quakerifm •, nothing feemed dear to me to part withal,or to fpend, 
 for the Advancement thereof: But, when I came to fee them walk 
 contrary to what they pretended, and that their feeming Sincerity 
 was real Hypocrifie, I then began to look into things, that there 
 might be a Reformation • and the firft thing that gave me occafion, 
 was, * That of forcing Apprentices to ftand Bare-headed in their « see Inno- 
 Houfes and Shops, and yet at the fame time pretended, they could cency Vin- 
 not put oft their Hats, in refpe£t to Perfbns. This looked fo bad, Seated, &(• 
 i. e. to receive, nay, exacf Refpeft from our Inferiors, and not to p ' 8 ' 
 give it to our Superiors, that I wrote a Letter to the Yearly Meet- * In MaJ 
 ing*, as a Teftimony againft it, which gave great Offence. ,<s 7J . 
 
 The Next which gave Offence to me, and others, was our Teach- 
 ers, who would exhort us to be bold, to give up all, telling us, The 
 Fleece would grow again ; who themfelves at the fame time, would 
 give up nothing, nay, not fit themfelves in a like fuffering Capacity - 
 with the Hearers, infomuch as that in the lofs of 13550 /. omsee Painr. 
 Teachers never loft 5c t. but the Hearers fuffered for them, as alfo Harl. &t, 
 for themfelves. And this I iaw, and f pake againft, feme Months be- P- J" 
 fore it fell to my turn, to be Fined for our Preachers : But at laft, 
 
 LI I 
 
14.6 The Filgrirns Progrefi, 
 
 \ \v;is Fined 15 /. for Sa>n. Cater, for that he did not declare his 
 Name and Habitation, and thereby put himfclf'in a like Suffering 
 
 \ 'SecRcafon capacity vviih us the Hearers, as I (hewed at large* , and how I 
 profecuted the Rcftitution of the faid Fine of 1 5 /. and bad it again, 
 
 . ftft&c Mj.tho'with great lofs, by Charges, Int. &c. 
 
 The Third thing which gave me Oftence, was G. E>*'s ferting 
 up a Female Gov ernment, by Women's Meeting Monthly _8tV. This 
 I oppofed vigoroully \ and robe ihorr, I do think I gav» (by my 
 
 * Di chrif.ub. Book) that Image a deadly Blow*: But by this time, G.Whitc- 
 &c. Part 2d. bead) Samuel Cater, Robert Sandland, and others, wrote Ieveral 
 t Tudsme Books againft me, wherein they called me, ' A Child of the Devil, 
 Fixed, &™ 'Enemy of all Righteoufhefs, an Apoftate, a Betraying Jud.u, a 
 Tin lib. 0/ an c Treacherous Hypocrite, a Dog, a Wolf, 3Beaft, an Informer, 18 
 Aftfi. Co?;): or 20 times in one Book f, with abundance more fuch ftuff. Well, 
 Rthteous upon this, I apply 'd my felftoour Mi/den-Hall Meeting, fbraCer- 
 Judgm'nt tificare againft thele fcandalous Detractions, (which they not only 
 flac-d, &c. Printed, but lent up and down into all Counties where I dealt, par- 
 
 * Which then cicularty, into Le/eelhrjhire, in order to ruin my Reputation*.) 
 hatefulNamc ^' c ^'.' twenty-ieven Members of this Meeting, gaveme a Certificate, 
 amongft e many of them ftill alive ; and both then, and frill the chief Men of 
 Tradefmen. the Meeting f. And this Certificate, with the Ieveral Books I 
 t See m» wrote, 16 maul'd them, that Sam. Cater, and his Affiftants, gave 
 ™™y&c over: But G. rr/.v'/^A/i/, he ftill goes on j he wrote fometimes 
 Ep/ji to the three Books in lefs than a Year againft me, calling me, i Self con- 
 BereansjM.v 'demned Apoftate, Counterfeit Convert, a Scandal to Chriftianity, 
 Introduft. <■ a Fool, and Novice, &c. 
 
 ofQ?ak!r : frr ^ nd wncn tnis would not effett their manifeft Defign, then they 
 
 &c. id'.'part. & nt Letters about againft me, and raifed all manner of Lies and 
 
 p. 146. Stories; and by Poft, lent me not only Books wrote againft Francis 
 
 Thefe Books Spira- but Letters alio. Arelifhof which is asfblloweth, viz. 
 they ftill km ' ' ^ 
 
 County ry Francis Bugg, Such as is thy AW, fitch thy Nature, the dark? 
 
 which did me efl ofthc Creeping 7 kings in the whole Earth 5 they love the Night, 
 
 ««<* fruit >n feeding upon Fifth, and Dung ; Night is thy Habitation 3 the 
 
 Earth hjs received thee f, Night and Darkpefs is come upon thee : 
 
 Thy Father isjhut out of Heaven, and thou alfo ; that makes ye. 
 
 Houl and Roar, li oe hafleiis, and the Eternal Night is come, 
 
 <ind coming upon thee. Woe, and Alafs ! poor Night-Bugg, ckc. 
 
 $d. i/7. Month, 169a. 
 
 This Letter fent me, without any Name to it, I fent a Copy of it 
 the next Poft to G. Whitehead, to know if he was the Author of it; 
 but he fent me word he was not, nor did he know who was r Whe- 
 I her he fiiid true or falfe therein, 1 cannot tell. But the 1 4th of the 
 
 lame 
 
From Qiiakerifm to Chriftianity. 14? 
 
 fame Month, I receiv'd another * from the fame Man, tho' of a difFe- * Not of the 
 rent Hand; but the la ft I know to be Ste. Crtfp's : And thus hef<"neHand- 
 
 wmtf Writing, but . 
 
 Wrote - thefim'Man,/ 
 
 Francis, lam not Geo. Whitehead .• Alas for Thee, and which yas > v 
 Hogg, and Pennyman, the Arrows from Heaven full tfick.fa.ft i k n o^his ' 
 in your Confciences, when thou hajl found me, Galilean ! And Hand, and * 
 thoumay hear more from me, Stc it* to others 
 
 Then in Verfe, thus: that do. 
 
 Indeed, to Vaunt, and proudly Bragg, 
 
 Doth not become a feeble Night-Bugg. 
 
 IProphcfc, the Hour is near, OBugg! unclean, 
 
 With wicked Julian/W/' cry, thou hajl found me, Galilean ! 
 
 As vile an Apoffate as ever was wicked Julian 5 
 
 A Wicked Ph&nke, no Penitent Publican, &c. 
 
 Reader, here is enough to (hew the Quakers Spirit ; and befides, 
 my knowledge of its being Ste. Crifp's, by his Hand-Writing, it's 
 to be obferved, that (as above,) he laid, I might hear further from 
 hm -, for about three Months after,came out another Book,Entituled, 
 Innocency againfl Envy, Signed by G. TV. and Ste. Crifp -, befi Jes 
 his ufual Expreffion, IProphe/ie^ &c. by which, if Whitehead did 
 not know of his firft, yet he knew of his fecond Letter ; and the 
 Matter being the lame in fubftance, I am fatisfied it was his. I 
 am likewife to let you know, that notwithftanding they pretended to 
 the Parliament, that they cannot leek Revenge for themfelves, and 
 thereupon could not Sign the Aflbciation, yet they Inditted me for 
 putting forth my Book againft them, New Rome Arraign d, isfc. in See The Pitt. 
 the Old-Bdily, London, which put me to great Charge ; infomuch,<>f £«<»*«■';/»»> 
 as one way or other, by my attending this Controverlie, by Writing P- W* 
 and Printing; firft, by oppofing their Errours-, next, by Vindica- 
 ting my fell' from their repeated Abules, both Publickly and Private- 
 ly, both as a Man and Chriftian, I did come by great lofs in my 
 outward Eftate •, and when Men perceived it, they came fo faft up- 
 on me, as that I could not bear up. I do not in all cafes juftifie my 
 felf, in the too much neglecting my Bufinefs, to attend the Motion 
 of the Quakers, who are a compacted Corporation, and my felf a 
 lingle Perlbn, there was too much odds : But I met with fuch Pro- 
 vocations, which would fill a Volume to relate ; and thereupon I 
 came to fee my Fall by the Hand tSSaul; for the Sons oi'Zcrviab 
 were too hard for me : For I had maintained the Conteft without 
 the help of the Clergy, from 1675 to the Year 169-7. and in all 
 that time, I never receiv'd of any one, or more of them, Ten Shillings, 
 nor Ten N ights Lodgings : And whereas they now call me Merce- 
 
 U 2 nary, 
 
148 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 nary, becaufe I have accepted of the Clergy's Kindnefs, which has 
 been very Bonntiful^ let any Quaker of them all (hew me that he 
 have waged War at his own Charge and Coft, fb long, and at lb 
 much Expence,Coft,Labour,Pains,Chargeand Trouble,and I will not 
 from henceforth call him Mercenary •, but their Tongue is no Slan- 
 der ; and now IfhalUhew fomewhat of the wonderful Providence 
 of God, in my Prefervation to this Day. For when I found how 
 the Cafe flood with me, I waited Two or Three Months under fome 
 Heavinefs and Concern, hearing from all Quarters how the ^ta- 
 kers glory'd over me : Notwithstanding they were the chief Caufe of 
 my Misfortune, not only with refpecf to the Cbntroverfie, but by 
 Six or Eight of them breaking in my Debt: Upon which I went to 
 vifitMr. ErqfftiM Warrfti, a Neighbouring Minifter, and told him 
 my Condition •, and he fpake comfortably to me, and bad me not 
 be difcou raged, for God was AU-fuffkient, and that the Earth was 
 the Lord's, and the Fulnefs thereof, or to this purpole ; and told me, 
 that if I would write a Letter of Requeft to my Lord Bifhop of 
 Aormcb, he, andlbme others, would Sign it : I did fo, and it was 
 Sign'd by himfelf, Mr. Archer, Mr. Daujs, &c. So I went to Aor- 
 wicb, and did, with no little Heavinefs, prefume to go with it to my 
 Lord Bilhop, of whom I did rather expeel: fome little chiding, 
 (being ienfible of my own Fault ) than to be fb kindly receiv'd .- 
 But when I came to him, he examined me about my Condition, and 
 prels'd me to be honeft, and to pay as far as I was able. For (/aid 
 he) our Religion teacheth us to do Right and Juftly by all Men •, 
 and when you have done, reft upon God's Providence •, it is not your 
 Cafe alone ; Times have been hard, and Difappointments many : 
 And then asked me what I would have him do for me ^ I told him, 
 that if his Lordfhip would pleale to give me a Certificate of his 
 Thoughts of me ^ I was minded to make Application to my Lords, 
 the Bifliops of the Church of England, the two Univerfities, and to 
 ibme particular Clergy-men. All which I no fooner asked, than he 
 granted me ^ and itpleafedGod lb to open the Hearts of my Lords, 
 the Bithops, and Reverend Clergy, that I found Help in time of 
 Need ; and when it was in my Heait to write this Book, I asked one 
 of my Lords, theBilhops, Leave, to give fome Publick Acknow- 
 ledgement of their Kindnefs-, but he anfwer'd me, Ao, go thy ways 
 home, and be thankful, we defire no fucb thing: But reading the 
 Scriptures, and finding in St. ]\UrK% Gofpel*, that when Chrift 
 *"Mw£ J.**, healed the Leper, he charged him, faying, See thou fay nothi ng to 
 Jtfv any Man, &c. But be (the Leper, being cured) went out, and be- 
 
 gan to publifh it much, and to blaze abroad the Matter: And I ner 
 ver read that Chrift blamed the Man for his Gratitude -, and I truft, 
 no .more will his Miniftersand Servants, for this my Prefumption : 
 Y.ot, how can I receive fiich unexpeded v and unmerited Favours, 
 
 and; 
 
more. 
 
 From Quakerifm to Chriftianityi 149 
 
 and not blaze it abroad > I, that for about Twenty Years Persecuted 
 
 the Church, and drew Difciples after me f, into the Schifm of * * I"""* o** 
 
 Quaker if m, and yet upon my Return met with no upbraiding, but j}° one 
 
 rather, like the Returning Prodigal, am met half way, and loaden ew 
 
 with Kindnefles. Surely, this is of the Lord's doing, (and it is 
 
 marvellous in my Eye) to whom be the Praife of all his Mercies 
 
 and Providences, now, and for ever. Ainen. 
 
 A Copy of my Lord Bifhop of 'Norwich's Certificate is as 
 
 fblloweth. 
 
 THefe are to certifie, That I have knorcn Francis Bugg 
 fome Tears, and that he has appear d to me a fiber, honeji, 
 and htdujlrtous Man, and to have taken mush Pains to undeceive 
 and Convert the Quakers, by PubliJJ)ing ufeful Books, and that not 
 without Succefs ; but by the Hardnefs of Times, fever al Loffes, 
 and the Charge of Printing the Books he ivrit, he is reduced to 
 great Difficulties : J therefore I apprehend him a real Object 
 of Charity $ and that he does truly deferve the Bounty of ivell- 
 difpofed Perfons, unto whom I Recommend him. 
 
 O&ob. 22. 1697. John Norwich. 
 
 And having obtain'd this Favour, together with his Bounty,, 
 which was very confiderable, I took my Leave of him with ma- 
 ny Thanks for his Kindnefs and Liberality. 
 
 Firft, That I might take care, not only to do what was juft to 
 others, but to take care of my Family alio ; for he that does not is 
 worfe than an Infidel. Secondly* That I might not lye under the 
 Contempts andlnfultings of the £>itakers ■, who, as they have for- 
 many Years fought my Ruin*, by all Ways and Methods they * As they do 
 could devife, both in Peribn, Name, and Eftate, fo they have a11 f th " °P- 
 been obferv'd like the FbiliflinesJ to glory in my Misfortunes, as rorsand'l ^ 
 thinking they had accomplished their Ends: But notwithftanding moraMtiw!"" 
 all their Rejoycing, I had a fecret Hope, that my Strength would t J«Jg" 16. 
 be renewed, and that God would enable me to lay hold of their two a +» **• 
 main Pillars *, (i.e. Perfection and Infallibility) and putting there- * y^ Ja 
 to all my Might, I ihould yet be able to (hake their Building, as at 
 this Day, Bleffed be God, the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, 
 who hath To wrought my Deliverance, as to bring things thus far to 
 pafs. Thirdly >, That thereby I might be enabled to grapple with 
 the {Quakers Goliah^ that Uncircumcifed 'Sbilifline, Geo. White- 
 beadby Name; who, together with his Brethren, have defied the 
 Armies of Ifrael^ even all the Profeffors of theChriftian Faith, under 
 
 every 
 
 1 
 
 i 
 
i6& The Pilgrims Qrogrefs, 
 
 every Denomination : And not only lb. but Excufe, Juftifie, Vin- 
 dicate, and Defend all the Idolatrous Practices, Blaibhemous Prin- 
 ciples, and Damnable Errors, Said, Wrote, and Printed, Broach- 
 ed, and Spread, by the Quaker Teachers, enough to Infect the Na- 
 tions, if God had not put it into the Hearts 01 fome Inftruments, 
 to difcover the fame; and thanks be to God, who from the begin- 
 ning of my Difcovery of their Errors, hath given me Strength, A- 
 bility and Courage, to go on, and not turn to the Right Hand, nor 
 to the Left, in my Putluit after Sbeba^ the Son of Bichri, that 
 iiSam. jo. Man of Beliel f, (i.c.Geo. IVJritebead) until I have hem'd him in 
 11,13. on every fide, altho' I have been hard befet, and gone thro' many 
 
 * Which few Difficulties and Streights % and have been forced to climb up the 
 know but my Hill upon my Hands and Feet, like Jonathan f; yet as he flew 
 ti Sam i . Twenty upon thefpot, fo have I difcomfited Twelve of their Prin- 
 fJ . " + " cipolMen, and maufd Doeg the Edomite, alias Jof. Wyeth*, that 
 
 * See my ?o- Pupil of W. Pen/is, who, as I am informed, was equally unbelieving 
 ber Expoftu- W - K \ x f^ r- p en/1 ^ touching the late happy Peace, without a Reftau — 
 theHearers ^ ucn Hopes had they of extirpating the Proteftant Intereft, &e. for 
 of the Qua- the time is come, that One (hall chafe aThoufand, and Two lhali 
 kers againft pur Ten Thoufand of them to flight •, and thus doth God bring to 
 the Mercena- p a f s {j} s A£ts, his ftrange A£ls, by weak Inftruments ■, to whom over 
 & J" to all, be the Glory, together with 'the Son, and Blefled Spirit, Three 
 the 15. Perlbns, and One God, now, henceforth, and for evermore. Amen. 
 
 And Therefore, in the Words of 'David I will praife the Lord, fay- 
 ing, Lord, with my whole Heart I will flew forth all thy mar- 
 vellous Works : I icillbe glad, and re Joyce in thee • IwillfingPraife 
 to thy Name, thou ntojl High, for thou bajl maintained my Right, 
 andmyCaufe; thou fit tefl on the Throne, judging Right. The 
 Lord aljo tall be a Refuge for the Opprejjed, a Rejuge in times of 
 1 rouble ; and they that know thy Name will put their 1 rufi in thee : 
 for thou, Lord, haft not fcrfaken them thatjeek thee. Sing Praifcs 
 to the Lord which dwclleth in Sion ; declare among the People his 
 t / t. The f^oipgf. The Heathen \ are junk down in the Pit that they made : 
 denieth' Jefus'^ the A'et zvbicb they bid, is their own toot taken *, &c. 
 oi Naz^etb. But, to proceed, having the recited Certificate of my Lord Bi- 
 
 * /'/"'o-'^-j-fhop of Norwich, 1 prelenred it to feveral of my Lords, the Bi- 
 9» u- fhops, both the Univerfities, as well as to divers Particulars of the 
 
 Clergy of rhe Church of England; and I humbly thank them, they 
 were very kind rome, notwithstanding all the Endeavours of the 
 Quakers, to reprefent me unworthy of their Notice ; particularly 
 at Cambridge, where rhey carry 'd to the Colleds^js Books againft 
 me, which Iliad Anfvver'd and Refitted Tenor Fifteen Years iince; 
 informich, that fome of the Heads of the Col ledges rook fpecial 
 NopJee of the Hiker's MaRee, and thereupon, I do believe, were 
 the moie kind. Thus doth God bring Good out of" Evil; nav, 
 
 fhould 
 
I a. 
 
 From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 161 
 
 fhould I relate all the particular Methods the fakers ufed in all 
 Places where I came, to prevent me of their Kindnefs, and the A- 
 boundings of the Favours I received, it would iecm almoft incre- 
 dible, I being but a fingle Perfon, and known but to a few; the 
 ^itakers numerous, and (like the Followers of Corah, Dathan, 
 and Abiram f) Men of Fame in fbme Cafes. But lb it was, they .. N , 
 did not prevail ; but God in his Providence made way for my Deli- 
 verance, beyond my Expectation, andinhimdoltruft, whotaketh. 
 Care of the Sparrows * ; and this puts me in Mind of the Widow, * Math. . 
 recorded in the Holy Scriptures f, whofe Husband died, and left her 29, 30, jt. 
 in Debt, and not Effects to anfwer, infmouch, that the Creditor + lK,n S'if' 
 was come to take away her two Sons. This poor Woman was no 
 doubt in Diftrefs enough • but yet fhe neither exclaimed of her 
 Husband, nor yet murmufd at the Difpenfation of Providence, 
 which betel -, neither did (he fit ft ill, and ufe no Means : But hear- 
 ing that Eli/ha the Prophet was come to Town, fhe refblves to 
 make Application to him ; he could but deny her ; fhe knew the 
 worft, and hoped the beft -, and therefore in Faith, and full Affu- 
 rance of the Mercy of God to them that truft in him ; and not 
 doubting but the Inipired Prophet knew herlnfide, even the Since- 
 rity of her Heart ; and that notwithftanding this Calamity, fhe 
 could appeal to him, that her Husband was an honeft Man ■, a Man 
 that feared God, and ferved him in Uprightnefs^ and thereupon 
 fhe puts on Courage, and goes to him, faying-, * Thy Servant, my 
 ' Husband, is dead, and thou knoweft that thy Servanr did fear the 
 ' Lord, and the Creditor is come to take unto him my two Sons 
 e to be Bondfmen. 
 
 This was forrowful News ( no doubt ) to the Prophet, to hear 
 that one of the Sons of the Prophets^ that profeffed Faith in the 
 God of Ifrael, fhould fb fail, as not to be able to pay his Debts. 
 Well, the Prophet quickly underftood the Widow, and as quickly 
 reply'd, faying, What jhall I do for thee ? tell me : What haft thou in 
 the Houfe ? Here is two notable Queftions, and fo quickly propofed, 
 that he did not give theWidow leave to anfwer to the firft, but added, 
 What haft thou in the Houfe ? As if he fhould have laid, Why fhould 
 lark this humble Petitioner, what fhe would have me to do? 'Tis 
 plain, flie would willingly be enabled to pay her Debts, refcue her 
 two Sons, and have fomething to live on ; fhe then reply'd, laying. 
 Thine Handmaid hath nothing at home, fave a Pitcher of Oyl. Up- 
 on which, the Prophet (as God would have it) wrought a Miracle, 
 laying •, ' Go borrow the VefTels of all thy Neighbours, even empty 
 ( VefTels -, borrow not a few-, and when thou art come into thy 
 1 Houfe, fhut the Door upon thee, and upon thy Sons, and pour out. 
 ' into all thefe VefTels, and fet afide that which is full.. She did ib, 
 and was thereby enabled to pay her Debts, redeem her Sons, and-had. 
 
 left- 
 
 16./ 
 
\ 
 
 jco The Pilgrims Progrejl, 
 
 left wherewithal to live upon. O the wonderful Works of God ! 
 who thus inftrufts His to depend upon his Providence ; for the 
 Scriptures are written for our Learning-, and truly, when I con- 
 fider my own Cafe, I think it falls not much fhort of this Mira- 
 cle ; I am fure I have met with a wonderful Providence, in my 
 Deliverance, confidering I had no fuch Infpired Prophet to ap- 
 1 peal to, nor fuch an Evidence to vouch on my part : I had nothing 
 
 hut Reafon and Demonftration to ofter, having prayed to God toln- 
 • dine the Hearts of his Servants, to a Charitable Confideration of 
 Things paft, prefent, and to come : Nay, my Cafe feem'd worfe 
 than the Widows-, for I do not read that (he had any Enemies to 
 Interpofe, but I had many. The §>j<akers no fooner underftood 
 that the Clergy took my Cafe into their Pious Confideration, but 
 they fent their EmhTaries with Books after me, both to the Col- 
 ledges, and particular Perfons -, wherein I was reprefented an Ene- 
 my of all Righteoufnefs, a Child of the Devil -, yea, a Devil Incar- 
 + Judgment nate, a Wolf, a Dog,a Beaft f, &c. And when this would not prevail 
 fixed, &t. by a g a j n fl- me ,they then madePerlbnal Complaints, that I was a Coun- 
 • A» G. w. tef feit Convert * ; and to make this out, they told fbme of 
 had Printed the Reverend Clergy in Norfolk, that though Francis Bugg pretend - 
 me to be. See ed to be a Member of the Church of England, yet he never receiv'd 
 his Book, a the Communion with you. See what a Convert you have ; what 
 wrr%scanZ'i Reafon is there then for you to affift and fupport him fo as you do ? 
 u Oorijiiamty, Upon which, this Minifter writes to Mr. Archer our Minifter, 
 ■ &c. to know theTruth of it ; he lends him an Anfwer, by Letter, afliiring 
 
 him, that m.Attno 1688. I receiv'd the Sacrament, and (if at home) 
 ever fince at the ufual times. But when this would not do, they'd 
 trv another Project -, for John Hubbard, oi'Stoakf, told Mr. Alert - 
 t An eminent ton, Minifter ofQxborow, near him, that I was drunk the laft time 
 H** kir ia , N "" I was in London * ; who fent me a Letter thereof which providenti- 
 Vf the wdw! all y came int0 m V Son ' s Haild > hl m y AWence : An Abftraft of it is 
 
 mention'd in as followeth. 
 my Sober Ex- 
 portation,/-. SIR, 
 
 . <6 9 P 8 rmted Igaveyowr Book the other Day to John Hubbard, who rc- 
 
 ' In March ceivd it with a Scornful Smile } / difcourfed with him upon 
 
 1699 ' the Subject of it, which he heard with much Impatience, yet at 
 
 laji he prowifed to read it ^ he could not forbear Itrveiiives againji 
 
 the Author of it : The ufual Courtfhip of that fort of People to 
 
 every one that would convince them of their Errors, 'tis the Sib- 
 
 bolcth of the Party :, indeed they may very Well challenge to them- 
 
 felves the fib Priviledgc ofexercifing the Blacl^ Art of Railin <y 
 
 becaufc they are the only Men that I kjtovo of, that can rail by Jt/- 
 
 fpiration : One Mouthful of Dirt I remember he fjuirted upon 
 
 you, 
 
i 
 
 From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. ijj 
 
 you, i.e. He f aid you were drunl^the laft t ime you were in Lon- 
 don. Sir, I doubt not intheleajl your Innocency, but they mnjt 
 Calumniate Jlill, or how /hall they prove themfelvts right-bred 
 Children of the Accufer of the Brethren : God Almighty ajjrji 
 andjirengthenyou to breakjhe Brood of that Viperous Generati- 
 on, that hath fo poyfon'd our Nation $ that at lafi yon may tri- 
 umph over that old Serpent, that hath commenced fo Bloody a 
 War againjl them that keep the Tefliittony ofjefus ^ you muft ex- 
 pe3 be will be fill 'd with great Wrath ^ that he will both Hifs, 
 *tid Sting, and pour out Water as a Flood after you, his time be- 
 ing jlwrt, &c 
 
 April 1 1 . 1 698. Hen. Meriton. 
 
 Upon my receiving this Letter I went to Stoake, and asked John 
 Hubbard -what Ground he had to raife this falfe Accufation-, I told 
 him, that I did not remember that I fpentaGroat at a time all the 
 time I was in London^: He told me he heard lb: Pray tell me + wt,icl1 was 
 your Author; at Lift he told meTk Belch *, at the Ship in Cheap- ^ t b a 
 fide, Linnen-Draper. When I came to London, I got Mr. Law- * a Quaker in 
 rence,- oiSt. Gregory'sYiTiih, to go with me to him, to whom I Undtn. 
 laid, Sir, do you know mc ? No, faid Tho. Belch : I told him that 
 my Name was Fran. Bugg, and that I underftood he had railed a 
 Report of me, viz. That I was drunk in London, March laft : I 
 heard fb, faid Belch, if that be thy Name : Who is your Author ? 
 faid I : He is not in Town, faid he : I reply'd, What is his Xante? 
 and infilled on it a good while, but could not prevail with him to 
 tell me : To the Truth of this Mr. Laurence fubferibed his Name, 
 
 John Lvvcrence. 
 Reader, When I faw my felf thus attack'd from all Quarters, 
 by Books, by Letters, by Reports ; fbmetimes, that I was a Drun- 
 kard, as you have heard •, fometimes, that I was diftra£led, and fb 
 difepmpofed, as not able to reft Night nor Day, occafion'd by wri- 
 ting againft the Quakers; fometimes, that I left my Wife and Son 
 in their Society, to introduce me again into their Community, and 
 Twenty Lies more, I went to the Quakers-Meeting in Milden- 
 Hall, on Sunday the Firft of May laft, as the mod probable Raifers 
 ofthefe, or fome of thefe Stories, and fpake to them after this 
 manner. 
 
 Friends. This is the 15th. Year fince I came to this Meeting 
 for a Certificata on my Behalf againft the Suggeftions of S. Cater 
 and G. Whitehead, &V..which were, That I was an Informer ; which 
 at that time, was a hateful Name to a Tradefman, and very Prejudi- 
 cial to my Reputation, as well as divers other Falle and Scandalous 
 Detractions in their Books : And this Meeting ( at leaft the major 
 
 X part 
 
i j^ The Pilgrim s Progrefi, 
 
 h . partofit, Twenty-fsven in number) gave me O N E * with great 
 
 Pifture 'of ^ oura 6° and Freedom, which atthac rime was very uleftd-, and I 
 
 I Qxakerifm, now come t0 vou ^ 0I a Teftification againft my felf, and ask noFa- 
 
 V-^art 2. p.' vour at your Hands, touching leveral Reports raifed on me, U( 
 
 / i-\C. jupra-, and upon your figning it with your Names, I promiie to 
 
 \ print it, and what I cannot juftly deny, I will fairly conlefs. 
 
 But feveral anfwer'd me, (and not oppofed by the reft, or any of 
 them) That they never heard any iiich Report, nor knew any caufe 
 why there ihould be luch Repons. 
 
 but for the farther clearing the Matter, and removing Stumbling- 
 Blocksout of" the way, I (hull recite the Subftance of feveral Cer- 
 tificates, which I took FROM my Son (who, tho' one ofthem, yet 
 I hope he is fincere •, fori have heard him fay, and rhat before lome 
 QtgAers, Come, what is Wrong is Wrong, whether it be in Gco.fox 
 or my Father, and I will no more ftand by what is Wrong in the one, 
 „ „ than I will in the other. ) FROM Fhilip Cranifs, who was my 
 
 me •iiwtoft. Secant, near 20 Years *, and as familiarly concern' d in all my Con- 
 and has nor cerns in Trade, both Buying and Selling-, having taken in and de- 
 been from me livefd out many Thouland Pounds worth of Goods, and is ftill liv- 
 Three Years. \ n ^ an j f known Reputation. FROM fl illiam Bel/ham, who was 
 my Servant 15 or 1 6 Years, and is a Quaker, and one that handed 
 my Certificate above-mention'd in 1^83. a Man of known Reputa- 
 tion. FROM Matthew Beljham^ his Brother, both living well, each 
 having lome Eftate of their own : He was my Servant about 1 6 
 Years, tho' none of them at this time, who, if I were fuch a Per- 
 fbn as fbrne would reprefent me to be - r lome, if not all of theie, 
 muft know fomething of it. Nay, I do believe I could have had a 
 idred of my Neighbours to avouch the fame, fo far as my Actions 
 have come under their Cognizance : But thefe being Perfbns of Cre- 
 dit, and that have had Experience of my manner of Life, may 
 (I think) ballance thole Reporrs,whofe Aurhors cannot be found out : 
 And indeed, were it not for the lake of my Teftimony, which the 
 Quakers would wound thro' my Sides, I fhould not have laid fo 
 much on this Subject, but rather have taken David's Patience for my 
 Example-, who, when Sbimei curled and reproached him in the 
 .Ssm.i6: Day of his Affliction*, yet he bore all patiently: And tho' its 
 °' 7,8 ' true,- 1 am now made to Unmask this Fainted Harlot, (which will 
 
 t Tho' about ft'M morc enrage her) thereby endeavouring, if polllble^ that Ihe 
 Four Years may ice her felt, and repent in Dull and Allies, and be humbled 
 thereof I was before the Lord \ that io ihe may be Converted and Healed ; at leaft, 
 muniVv la-"" r hat hereby others may be caution'd not to imbrace her Pernicious Er- 
 bouring for a rors., yet in all this 20 Years time f of my Gontrovcrfing with the 
 Reformation, Head of this Sect •: I never render'd Railing for Railing (nor do I 
 t then une now j neither have I taken Advantage at their Mifcarriages, (a fmall. 
 iirgroflfffi Sample whereof I hu\ e now let forth in the fbirner Chapter) as my 
 as. " Books 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. 15 j 
 
 Books do manifeft, but have handled thole Errors which they taught 
 in their Books, which indeed, open the Flood-Gates to all their Vi- 
 cioufneis *,- and with which they are fo tainted, as put all Chrifti-* SeeaPajw j 
 an Societies together (their Number confiderd) there is not fb much ^omPenj!tv^.W 
 Vicioufhefs in any one Society. Tho' if Chrift had one amongft "Jt'&fefMm!- r 
 twelve, it cannot but be fuppofed there is in every Society too vaKiy'aitimt$ the * 
 that do not, in Life and Conversation, anfwer their Holy Profeffion • E1 ^rs and. Mi- 
 neither do I bring thefe Teftimonies to excufe my fell' from my own n ^ €r ' ^', h , d 
 Infirmities; I am not without Sinful Imperfections, I do acknow* Q^ers! 
 ledge. 
 
 Here follows the Contents of the ieveral Certificates above men- 
 tion^, Vic. 
 
 Fi/ji, That he (Fran. Bugg) neither is, nor never was diftracted 
 or difcompofed, fince any of us can remember him, or that ever 
 we heard of 
 
 Secondly, That in all his Time he has been moderate, both in his 
 Meat, Drink, and Apparel ; and never by any of us known to be 
 drunk, as is reported, nor yet inclined to Drinking, in Excefs. 
 
 Thirdly, That he ever was a good Provider for his Family, a Lo 
 ver of his Wife, an Indulgent Father to his Children ; forcing 
 none ( farther than Perfwafion ) to a Conformity to his way of 
 Worfhip. 
 
 Fourthly, That we believe he never left his Wife and Son a- 
 mongft the §>U4&erf 3 to Introduce him to them again -, this is a Ma 
 licious Report, to render him a Hypocrite, which his whole Life 
 and Converfation has declared the contrary, to his Coft. 
 
 Fifthly, The Prefs being open, and both Parties having equal 
 Priviledge, we look upon it utterly wrong to make ufe ofittch In 
 direct Methods : And lome of us are forry we have no better way 
 to confute his Arguments. 
 
 Sixthly, That we are ready to enlarge on any of thefe Heads to any 
 
 Man's Face that fhall queftion the Truth hereof 
 
 c 1 f ., , 1 • William Beljham, Philip' Cranai/s, 
 3ubicrifc.a oy Matthew B } IllhWh F / a „ m Bug ^ j union 
 
 Reader, As I could notpafsby fuchPublick Mercies and Benefits 
 as I have received, without fomePublick Acknowledgment, with- 
 out great Ingratitude, both to God and Man • fo would I not be too 
 particular, left thereby I do oftend ; yet with St. Paul I can fay, 
 That as Sufferings and hard Ufage for my Teftimony fake abound, 
 fo do not only Inward Conlblation, but Outward Benefits aboundal- 
 fo*-, and as' a Proof thereof, I fhall add but one Inftance more, * c "' '' 5 ' 
 which is. That lince I came to Load??:, an ancient Friend of 
 mine, to whom I did owe a certain Debt, upon Bond, whoconfi- 
 dering the hard Ulages I have received from tiie ^takers, (in 
 
 \ which 
 
y 
 
 156 The Pilgrim's Progrefi, 
 
 which, he himfelf has had a deep (hare ) and finding me ftill con- 
 fcientioufly concern'd, without my asking, or once thiuking of, or 
 expe&ing, brought me the Bond, and forgave me the Debt refting 
 due to him upon it, without any Covenant or Promife on my part. - 
 Thus hath God opened the Hearts of his Servants, and moved them 
 to Compalfion •, Bleffed be his Holy Name for ever, and Humble 
 Thanks to all, unto whom I have been oblig'd. 
 
 CHAP. XVI. 
 
 A Word of Encouragement to all who are Sincere atnongfi the 
 Hearers of the People, 1 -all'd Quakers, who begin to be weary 
 of the Yoke of Quakerifm, and arc willing to embrace the 
 Chriftian Faith.. 
 
 H 
 
 FRIENDS, 
 
 ' Aving given you a Brief Account of my Travel in this Pilgri- 
 mjge, and mewed you the many Turnings and Windings 
 which I have gone through, and the many Quick-fands and Quag- 
 mires that I have palled, without finking, tho oft-times in great 
 Danger-, what by Enemies within, and Enemies without, asalfoin 
 fome Places pointed to Ifrael's Rock, the Man Qhrifi Jefm, I am 
 now come to remove one Stumbling-Block, which Solomon Eccles 
 has laid in your way, namely ,T/w there is su great a Gulf fixed be- 
 tween you and the Chrijlians, as there ivat between Dives and 
 Abraham, infomuch, that if you would come from them, i. e. Qua- 
 tr,z-. ByAu- / icrs ^ you cannot; his Words arethefe, Viz. 
 
 mtharfthe" * tejlijie in /he Spirit of Truth f, that there is as great a Gulf 
 Scripture between the Baptifts (and confequently other Chriftians) that are 
 Truth defend. jY T in Chriji 5 (that is, NOT in the Quakers Light ) and thqfe 
 ing ih: <<ua- (Quakers) that are in the Truth, as there teas between Abraham 
 £^' 7 'W Dives*, 
 
 • See his Mu- Again, as an hxplanation of this Dottrine, he faith, Come Pro- 
 fit LeBure,&c. tefiants, Presbyterians, Indcpendants and Bapiijh, the Quakers 
 ? : 1J ' ^ , deny you all : The Qj<akcrs are in the Truth, and none but 
 
 t.Tbe Quakers th / v ^ &c _ ■ ^ 
 
 p. 2, j. ' ' And from this, and the like Doctrine, fpring that Averfion in you, 
 that it is impolfible to prevail with many of you, either to hear a 
 Sermcn, preach'd by the Publick Minifters, or to read their Sermons : 
 So that when the Quakers once catch any in their Cobweb, it is 
 very hard and difficult to get you our.unlefs here and there one, that 
 is refolv'd to obferve the Apoftle's Advice, who faid, Prove alt 
 
 *• vihef. j.ii> things, hold fafl that wbuhisgoed* : And I am not doubtful, but 
 
 that 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. i j? 
 
 that as there has been a Remnant that has taken this Advice, and has 
 forfaken the Quakers Errors, fo will there many more follow their 
 Example : For this Dofrrine of theirs, which alludes to Chrift s Pa- * ^ , tf< 
 rahle, is falfly applied ; for that Parable relates to the Final Eftate 
 of the BlefTed, and the Damned, after this Life, as you may read 
 at large, Luke 16. And as for the Quakers denying all the Profef- 
 ibrs of Chriftianity, affirming themfelves to be in the Truth ONLY, 
 or the ONLY Church of Chrift, as in my former Writings I have 
 made to appear * ftom their Books •, this is all Pride, yea, Spiritu- « The pj^^ 
 al Pride, and Self-Conceit, and ought not to be any Hindrance to f Quakerifm, 
 you in your Examination and Try al of your felves; but rather, as a &c Partfirfh 
 Spur to your Zeal, left youihould be in the Wrong: And if you 
 come once fincerely fo to do, I noway doubt but you willfoonfor- 
 iake Quakerifm. I well remember, that when I tirft heard it Ru- 
 mour d, that G. Fi?.*-was looked upon as a fecond Mqfes, to give 
 forth Laws and Orders for us to walk by, and Methods and Forms 
 of Church-Government, I prefently wrote Six Queries touching 
 Church-Government, in the Year 167S*. which went in Manu- • 2C) y ears 
 icript far and near, as Printed in my Book | j the Tenor of which fince. 
 
 Was : t De Chri. Lib. 
 
 Query 1. Whether Tefus Chrift be Head of the Church, or Part . 1 ' Pag ' 
 
 eorge box f 
 
 Qu. 2. If you fay Chrift; then whether he be not Law-giver to 
 his Church ? . 
 
 Qu. 3. If you fay, that Chrift is both Head and Law-giver to his 
 Church ; then whether we ought not to Follow and Obey the Com- 
 mands and Precepts of Chrift, which are laid down in the Scri- 
 pture, by the four Evangelifts, and his Apoftles, rather than the 
 Commands and Precepts of Geo. Fox ? 
 
 Qu. 4. If you fay, that the Commands and Precepts of Chrift 
 ought rather to be obey'd, than thole of Geo. Fox -, then I further 
 Query, whether Chrift, or any of his Apoftles, ever commanded 
 the Obfervation of W omens Meetings, Apart and DiftinO: from 
 the Men? 
 
 Qu. 5. If you fay, That neither Chrift nor his Apoftles comman- 
 ded nor left any Example orPrefident for Wo mens Diftintf Meet- 
 ings, to be fet up Monthly, any way to intermeddle with the Go- 
 vernment of the Church : Then I further Query, where have Geo. 
 Fox or you your Power and Authority, to Inftitute and Ordain fuch 
 a way of Government ? And in whole Name do you compel to a 
 Conformity ■. and thus to Impofe your Ceremonies ? iffc. 
 
 Qu. 6. Whether were not the Bereans accounted noble, in that 
 they fearched the Scriptures, to fee whether what St. Paul taught, 
 did accord therewith » And will it not become us to do the like, 
 to fee whether what Geo. Fox impofes on us, accord with the Scri- 
 pture? 
 
 !■ 
 
!$8 The Pilgrim's Progrejl, 
 
 fturc ? If not. whether we are obliged to obierve his Dictates and 
 refcriptions, Tea or Nay ? i!?c. To which Queries I never received 
 any Aniwex. 
 
 And thus it pleafed God of his Infinite Mercy, to give me Cou- 
 
 jj* Yea, !t was rage and Boldnefs 2c Yeais fince, (tor it was fome Years before*, 
 
 t* y bm l61 *' t ' iar * wrotetot h c ' r Yearly Meeting, about their forcing their Ap- 
 
 nldtirteT&c. prcnticestoftand bareheaded before them, whilft they refufe that 
 
 p. s. Refpect to their Superiors) ro appear againft what I fiw to be 
 
 )Bg in them, even whilft amongft them ; equally ( accor 
 
 to my Underftanding) to what I have done fince -, and methinks 1 
 
 defire no more inthe Quakers than to be fincere, and that for their 
 
 own Good too: I mean, to put on Courage, and fay-, c What do 
 
 c you tell me of G. Fox, or Geo. Whitehead, or any other Man ; I will 
 
 t Such a Man' ftand by no Man, nor no Principle, nor no People f, farther than 
 
 I have not £ they are right, at leaft, in my Apprehenfion, no farther than they 
 
 moncftdieir c a S ree Wlt ^ cne Holy Scriptures : No, I am not yetEai-bored 
 
 Teachers. ' tfis nor the other Man, Form or Society, for Self-Ends, for 
 
 7*o. upjht ' Advantage in Trade, for a Name among Men ■, no, I am for Truth 
 
 cameneareft; c ;m j Rigiiceuulheis, fb far as I know ir. I thank God thus it was 
 
 came'to'ask w ' t ' 1 me > when 1 was as Famous amongft them, as fince they h 
 
 him, whether endeavoured to render me Infamous; and I defire no more of the 
 
 he would ju- Quakers than this, let their Errors be nevei fb great, and their 
 
 fjifie their Underftanding never fo clouded, if they be Sincere, and willing to 
 
 flew off fry- ' )e ' n fornaed,I cou ^ heartily imbrace them,andfor whichl have great 
 
 >"g, No, he Rjeafcn; for I was as Erroneous in many things as the moft of them: 
 
 would not But when I find that G.Whitehead teach them. tiriU/'.'w . iem 
 
 meddle. are t j )e True OMrch ; next, That thy are to believe a* this true 
 
 . See Jlis ( believes *, and that the People love to have it lb, /. e. 
 
 j/piji. hcend. like. Teacher, like People, the Blind to lead the Blind, till both 
 
 &c. P.3,16. fjtl iuro the Ditch of Error and Herefie together-, this is fad. 
 
 Bat fays Geo. Whitehead, A Matter; I challenge Francis 
 
 Bugg, and bis Teachers, Abettors, and Congi 's, topra 
 
 thofe Books of the Quakers, t*hb tbs J erein ue 
 
 > Born of theVirgin Mar. 
 **A Sober Re trail a Calumnious Afperjion *. 
 
 Expoftulati- This bold Challenge has been often a nlvver'df, and fb fully, as I 
 on with ibme cannot pretend to -, Vet fince this Error of the Quakers denying 
 &I.Z " g5,, Chrift feems to be the Mother of all their other Efiors I lh ill for 
 tSee;'/:!-^^ this Challenge lake, that fb his Divvies may fee his Impudence, 
 in ■ trove, that fh< r) do deny the jame Jc- 
 
 jd. Edit. p. f. /s r ; iat was Bo rn f t hat Virgin Mary : And if I do fo, 1 think he 
 
 i in tr\ i . r ... . ,-> . . i « i .'v » "T"> 1 
 
 <anmgs, p. 2- ty jycj, a Charge, if not true. And now to the Matter : I. 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. nj-p- 
 
 fyt came into lofCz&rea Philippi, he atked his Difciples, 
 
 faying, whom do Men fay that I THE SON OF MAN am*?* hUtth.ii.ii 
 
 That the outward Per/on that k / 
 
 fnfferd was properly the Son of \ 
 
 God, we utterly deny. A Btf- 1 Verfe i*. / 
 dy haji thou prepared me, faid 
 the Son. 1 hen the Son was not 
 
 Simon Peter anfwerd and 
 faid, J HOV arj CHRIST, the 
 
 SON of the LIVING GOD f. 
 Again, And WE believe, and 
 ARE SURE, that thou art 
 
 THAT CHRIST, the SON oflthe Body, though the Body was 
 the LIVING GOD*. the Son's. **A Serious Apolo-*7,/, B <j. tf,. 
 
 gy, &c. by W. Penjt, p. 146. 
 
 Here you have the Queftion propofed by Chrift himlelf, Whom do 
 Men fay that I the SON OF MAN am ? You alfo hear St.Peters an- 
 fwer, which is as plain.and as home to the Purpi-ie, as can be ; and 
 now you ihall hear Chrift's Approbation and Confirmation thereof: 
 But you fee the ,C'- tiers Anfwer is point blank contrary -, yea, W. 
 Venn does utterly deny, THAT PERSON who fufter'd at Jerufalem 
 to be the SON OF GOD. Mark, Reader, Chrift's Reply to St. 
 Peter's Anfwer to his mod Gracious Queftion, Viz. And j\fus 
 anfwerd and faid unto him, Blejjed art thou Simon Bar-jona, for 
 Flejh and Blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which » ^ I(f ,„ 
 is in Heaven *. and 17. j. 
 
 I think I need fay no more, efpeciaily fince this Point is fo large- 
 ly handled, and fo fully proved upon the Quakers by that Reverend 
 Author, in the Books above quoted : Only thus much I may add, 
 That if St. Peter be Orthodox in this PoinLthen are the Qitakers He- 
 terodox ; and that herein their utter Teftimony is levell d,that ftrikes t Luki 1 . 26, 
 at the very Foundation of Chriftianity •, and as a Reply toG. 71'. 1 3'. 3=, 33,3f.- 
 do offer De Novo, to prove, and I do now affirm, That the Qua- J. 1 ^^ \ 2 J 
 kers by their Books do deny the fame Jefus that was Born of the 13] i6,i' } 7 ,lo', 
 Virgin Mary ; THE SAME JFSUS, to whom the Voice came from *?• <■"/-■ 17. ' 
 the excellent Glory, faying, This is my Beloved Son, in whom I am *'9> ,2 > '3» 
 well pleated, hear ye him : THE SAME JESUS that St. Paul preach- it' ??' ??■ 
 ed, Ms 17. THE SAME JESUS that' St. Peter teftified, laying, 67. ']£*£? 
 Let the Houfc of Ifrael know affuredly, that God hath made thai <*■ **»•* 9. 7. 1 
 SAME JESUS whom ye have CRl T CItlED,lwthLORD and CHRIST.™" ?• "> J 7- 
 And this I offer to prove to G. Whitehead Vive Voce, at any covi-™?',*' 6 *^' 
 venient time, on Condition he will under his Hand covenant to con- 5. 30' 31! c %\ 
 demn the Quakers Books, which fo Teach, when proved upon him, 2> 3<5. Heb^.^ 
 as by his own Argumentation (in the Challenge above-recited) he is^' "* a - 
 in Equity obliged too: And if I do not prove it, I will burn my , °Q r . i 5 34 ) f> 
 Books, that fo charge the Quakers; and let this be theTouchftone, ASs 7.35* 36° 
 to try us both^ in the mean time, any Qitaker that thinks I am in c *t- IO - 38, to 
 the Wrong, let them look firft on W. Penns Book, by me heretofore **"" cap ' 17 " 
 quoted, as well as this before me .; and the Scriptures quoted in the \'.y]i,n7*.\i\ 
 
 Marginf, 
 
5o The Pilgrim's Trogrefs, 
 
 Margin, which I have taken Pains to collect, and he will then 
 certainly find, that I have on my Side the Teftimony of the Glorious 
 Angels, Holy Apoftles, Blefled Martyrs •, yea, the whole Tenor of 
 the Scriptures , and befide all this, a Cloud of Witneffes, viz. the 
 Concurrent Teftimony of the Ancient Fathers, and all the prefent 
 Chriftian Churches to this Day, and that G. IVhitehead will have 
 none of his Side, but W. Pcnn, and a few of his Brethren-, and the 
 Writings of Ifaac Pennington, W. Bayly, W. Smith, Edw. Burroughs 
 Geo. Fox, fa. Nayler, Chrift. Atk'injbn, i!fc. But I knowing, that 
 fo ibon as your Teachers once efpy your looking towards Chriftiani- 
 ty, they will not only hinder you from reading fuch Books, that 
 are orlhallbe wrote againft Quakerifm, butrefufe you the Sight 
 of fuch Books of theirs, as we quote ; for fo long as they can keep 
 you in Ignorance, lb long they may keep you Quakers ; I fhall there- 
 fore give you the fafrie Quotations out of fome of their Books, 
 which I fhall in this Book let you know where to have the moft of 
 them, viz. William Penn's Serious Apology, (ft: p. 146. Jl'. Smith's 
 Catechifm, Uc. p. 57. W. Smith's Primer, &c. p. 8. W. Sbevceris 
 Treat if e of Thoughts, &c. p. 35. Jof. Coale's Works, &c. p. .93. 
 News coming up, &c. p. 33. The Teachers of the World Vnvaitd, 
 Sec. p. 35. The Sword of the Lord drawn, Step. 5. Edw. Bur rough's 
 Works, p. 149, 273. Geo. Fox's Great Myft. p. 206, 207, 210,211, 
 250, 254. The Quakers Challenge, p. 6. Saul's Errand to Damaicus, 
 p. 7, 8. Some Principles oj the Elell People of God, call'd Quakers, 
 p. 1 2d. AQjieftion toProfeJfors, &c. by ifaac Pennington, p. 25,27, 
 33. The Capital Principles of the People caird Quaker ■, Sol. Eccles 
 Teflimony, p. 24, 25, 41. W. Penn's Part in The Chriftian Quaker, 
 &c. p. P7, p8. W.Penn'sSandy Foundation, &c. p. 10, to 30. 
 I (hall now add fomething out of a Book, intituled, News of a 
 Wrote by Trumpet founding in the Wtlderncfs, &c.which is come lately out of 
 who h« been Penfilvania, Printed 1697. and for the Ufefulnefs of it I could be 
 afl«,7icr about glad that it was reprinted,with thisTitle, A Trumpet founding from 
 so Years. penfilvania, giving an Alarum to the Magiftrates & People of Eng- 
 land to beware of Quakerifm 1 That fb, not only thejuftices of Peace, 
 but even our Honourable Patriots, might have one put into their 
 Hands : But all things in their Seafon, Quakerifm had a time to ad- 
 vance, and it muft have a time to fall : But as no Herefie, fince the 
 Days of Chrift, ever rofe fo faft, prevailed lb much, nor carried on 
 with fo much Craft, and curious Paint, fo none ever tell fo faft (as 
 I am periwaded this of Quakerifm will do) infbmuch, as that in a 
 few Years it will be a Shame, for any Man of Senfe,to appear in the 
 Streets, who owns the Principles and Practice of the Quakers, ac- 
 cording to their Ancient Teftimony. 
 
 And 
 
From Quakerifm to Chriftianity. itfr 
 
 And now a Hint out of the Penfilvanian Book afbrefiid, viz. N . 
 * Tho' they (i.e. Quakers) claih between their Old and New Te- Trumpe 
 
 ( ftimonies, yet we fee (fays D. Leeds J that they have in their (bunding, cW. v / 
 
 c 
 
 ptt 
 i 
 
 * late Books dropt here and there ibme Chriftian Exprelfions, moreP« *i 
 c than formerly : And what may we think they intend thereby ? J 
 c Why? Geo. Whitehead in his Counterfeit Convert, p. 72. fays, I 
 
 c I may feeCaufe otherwife to word the Matter, and yet our In- 
 
 c tentions be the fame. Now is it not admirable that a Man of Geo. 
 
 c Whitehead's Pretences *fhoukl be grown fo bold in Crafty and De- * To Serjouf- 
 
 c ceiveable Gloffes, to deceive his Readers I Is this like the Ancient n ^ s > t0 | inC i-" 
 
 ' Simplicity of the Quakers, to fiy, I may fee caufe otherwife to^'t^pide]-* 
 
 1 word the Matter, and yet intend the* fame ? Pray who knows then tyi to Con- 
 
 c when fuch a Man is fincere, or how to believe him in what he £"!"¥•. t0 In " 
 
 'fays; that thus hides his Meanings, fays one thing, and mean an °- p^rfeaion to 
 
 'ther?£?V. And now I cannot but expect (fays Daniel., p. 42.)p] a innefs,c*)-f. 
 
 i that there will be great Deviling, Pulling and Drawing, (Paint- ibid. 4*. 
 
 c ing and Gloffing) rather than make Confeflion of their Errors, 
 
 ' Confufion, and Contradictions herein Manifefted and Charged, 
 
 c (as alfo in other Books, by Geo. Keith, Tbo.Cri/p, F>\ Bugg, and 
 
 1 others) becaufe they have fo much accufed their Opponents for the 
 
 ' fame things, ( themfelves are now juftly charged with ) furely 
 
 c fome curious Wyre drawing, Mincing, Mangling, otherwife 
 
 ' Wording and Equivocating f, we muft expect ; but they having \g w. You 
 
 * caught themfelves in this Net, the more they flutter, the more muft now call 
 ' they'll fetter, infnare, and entangle themfelves-, for they cannot y° ur Brother 
 ' thus dance in a Net, but fome Body will fee them : For they are yo^'whoie 
 
 * now as eafily feen thorough (God be thanked) as they pretend to Society of Je- 
 c fee through others ; yea, this will certainly be the Confequence. fuit'cal 
 
 c till they ufe the only Chriftian Means to get out of this Net, which Scri ^ es > for 
 ' is by Humbly Confeffing and Condemning their Errors in their isVounded'ia 
 ' Books, as Geo. Keith has done, &c. your Pope's 
 
 To all which I cannot but joyn, andwifh for their own fakes it Borders, 
 may be fo, adding, that if ever it fo come to pais, then I fhall fee a 
 great Truth in what Tho. Elhwod wrote to his Friends, viz. The no. El/mod's 
 way to recover theDeceivcd, is to difcover and lay open the Deceivers. Epiftle to 
 In the mean time, taking it to be a found Truth, I have adventured Fnends > &'• 
 to put his Doctrine in practice, and fo I conclude this Paffage out of p ' 7 *" 
 that Ufeful and Compendious Book, from Penfdvania ; which 
 had that People receiv'd, my Advice in my Poftfcript to my Book, 
 intituled, De Cbriftiant Libertate, ©V. Printed 1682. p. 21^. viz. 
 Tojrequent the Holy Scriptures, and read them diligently, &c. th is 
 might have been prevented. 
 
 And nuw, to conclude my Advice, left any fhould prevent you ta- 
 king the Advice I gave the Penjilvanians, 1 6 Years ago, as above, 
 lihall, according to my further Experience in this Pilgrimage, tell 
 
 Y you, 
 
\ 
 
 162 The Pilgrims Progrefe) 
 
 you, that it was the Pra&ice, both of the Church of the Jews, 
 and the Chrlftians, (which for Subftance are one) to Read and Ex- 
 pound the Scriptures in their AiTemblies, (which the Quakers call 
 Conjuration) irom Morning to Mid-day, and to give the Meaning 
 1 Cbrni. 34. thereof to the People*, out of the Law- of God, given forth 
 Bi '9> 35- by Mofes •, and Chrift himfelf went into their Synagogue, as hisCu- 
 
 tMKm.8. 1, a. n. om Vv; , s w h ere h e f tuCc l U p f or t0 rea( J . And w J len t h e }$ 0o l 
 
 all0 > ll 'h . Prophet was given to him, he found (which argues he 
 
 fought for) a proper place of Scripture ; and when he had read, he 
 
 then, in a Friendly manner, gave the Minifter his Book again, and 
 
 . . , « _ did not fall upon him, and call him Conjurer, Beaft, Dog, Witch, 
 
 L v does their Devil, Bloodhound, fcf. but Preached out of what he read, and 
 
 Minifters. Expounding it to the People •, infomuch, that the Eyes of all the 
 
 AiTembly were faftned on him when they heard his Gracious Say- 
 
 * L-d. 14. 14, ings* and at another time, fuitable to his own Example, he bad 
 16,27 >i8,'9> the Jewsy^7/v/> the Scriptures, for they are than which tejlified of 
 t John '5 . 39. we t- And after he was Riferi from the Dead, how did he appear to 
 
 his Difciples, and reafoned out of the Scriptures, beginning at NLo- 
 j'cs, and all the Prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scri- 
 ptures the things concerning himfelf, laying unto them, Tbefe arc 
 John 14. 17 tht'Vi'ords which Ifpake unto you, whilft 1 was with ycu\ that 
 44. things ntitft be fulfilled which are written in the Law, and in the 
 
 Prophets, and in the Pf aims, concerning ?)ie. Thus did he con- 
 firm the Scriptures by his Holy Example; both before and after his 
 Crucifixion , he did not queftion whether A hjes or Hermes were the 
 firft Pen-man thereof; or whether, either or neither, as the Quakers 
 
 * rte Qj? ki j s do*, in order to Invalidate it, and to overthrow the Divine Autho- 
 &c% in ' rityofit; no, no, he confirm'd them, faying, The Scriptures can- 
 tJohn 10' 3 j. not be broken ~\: Think not (laid he) that law come to defiroy 
 
 the Law, or the Prophets : No, no, it is (laid he) eafier for Hea- 
 ven and Earth to pafs, than for one tittle of the Law to fail, till all 
 y£^/* m be fulfiHed*. And St. Paul laid. The Law is our School m after to 
 \ Gai. '■\ I .\\. bring us to drift f ; And it was his manner, to go into the J: 
 
 Synagogue, to Reafon with them out of the Scriptures, opening and 
 
 :ging, that Chrift muft needs have Suft'er'd and Rifen from the 
 
 h , a E/ead ; proving out of the Scriptures, that the fame Jefus which. 
 
 1. 1. :=. he Preached (who was Propheiied of*, and.in due time was Born of 
 
 '8- the Virgin Alary) was the Chrift. Read Ails ij. read New Rome 
 
 '''J'l 9 f Arrai, :. p. 55. to 58. &e. 
 
 Jer.xi j 15 ' Here we may fee, that neither the Minifters of the Church of the 
 "1:4(5. Tews, ncr Chrift, nor his Apoftles, call d the Scriptures, Death, 
 Numb. 9.12. 'Duft, Beaftly Wares, the Husk, Carnal *, Serpents Food, iffc. as 
 * 's 9 th r ^ e P r °phane Quakers Biaiphemoufiy do, as appears from the Books 
 Quakers plain- of their Prophets, of greateft Note, Fox, Whitehead, &c. And if 
 uefs, &:. p. you will look into the Apology of Juftin Martyr, and the Writings 
 
 of 
 
From Quakerifm to Chrifliafiity. 
 
 of the Fathers; as St. Cyprian^ Sx.AuguJlinc, Or/gen, Cbryfoftom, 
 Ifidorin, Tertullian, Uc. and Into the Practice of our prefent 
 Church of England, you will ftill find the fame : But for your 
 further InftruQion in thefe Matters, I rather refer you to our Re- 
 verend Bifhops and Clergy, who can better inform you. 
 
 Thus having kept nothing back from you, which I think may- 
 make a Difcovery of the Quakers Faith, Doctrine, and Practice, 
 to be contrary to the Faith, Doctrine and Practice of the Jewifh, 
 as well as the Chriftian Church, to that of the Apoftles, Primi- 
 tive Chriftians, Saints and Martyrs, in all Ages ; I fhall Conclude 
 this Chapter, begging of God to blefs my Labours, to thofe Ends 
 by me defigned, which are beft known to him, and my own Con- 
 fcience •, which, whether you believe it or not, is, that you may 
 be thereby helped to underftand your Errors ; that thereby you may 
 be prevailed upon to beg God's AlTiftance, to help you out of 
 them, and receive the Benefitx>f it. Amen. 
 
 163 
 
 July 30. i6p8. 
 
 Fran. Bugg. 
 
 ;• 
 
 To write no more, I long face did intend, 
 But now, I hope, that Work. * s # ea r an end 
 For abler Men do daily now come 7*?, 
 To finifi what I thinly I did begin f. 
 
 t Rerpefting 
 forne particu- 
 lar Difcove- 
 ries, not but 
 there were 
 earlier Pens at 
 work againfl 
 Quakerifm. 
 
 Yl 
 
 Lppen- 
 
i^4 
 
 K 
 
 A N 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Difcovering a mofl Damnable Plot, by a United Con- 
 federacy, carried on by the chief EmifTaries 
 of New-Rome, againfi the Chriftian Reli- 
 gion, and Chriftian Reputation of the Pro- 
 feffors thereof', with a Remedy againfi it % both 
 Eajie and Safe. 
 
 i\ jj, n. i 
 
 H 
 
 READER, 
 
 "Aving gone thro' many things (tho 1 briefly) I do now 
 fay, that it was not of my ieeking, nor my Choice •, I 
 could have been glad to have leen the Quakers to have 
 Retraced their Grofs Errors, and thereby remove the Caufe ; 
 but they have flighted all due Methods that are confiftent with 
 * Obfetve a Reformation * : For when Geo.Whitehcad gave forth a Sheet, en- 
 whatPropo- rituled, The QiiakersVindication y &c. laying, Col. 2. P. 3,4r'I 
 fals I and o- <, q^ pj/; freely offer, and am willing to make it plainly appear before 
 Se b our c ANY Six, Ten, or Twelve Competent Witnefles, who are mode- 
 Books. ' rate Men, of common Senfe andReafbn, That Erancis Bugg has 
 c grofly wronged the Quakers, both in Charge, Citation, and Ob- 
 ' fervation, &c. I then did meet him, and we agreed upon the Preli- 
 minaries, upon which we were to debate^ but when I came to name 
 Perfons, he flew off. Now, by the Contents of his Offer, I had my 
 Liberty tochuieANY; yea, all the Men, provided they were mo- 
 derate Men, of common Senfe and Reafon. But, to avoid his Charge 
 of Partiality, I admitted, that he fhould have his equal Choice of 
 r I mention one p arl f t h e Men : And that he might fee 1 would take no Ad- 
 rhis here, be- vanta g e at fc is Word ANY, whereby I was left free where to make 
 rnour'd'ln my Choice, as well as who, I ofter'd.him to chufe out of the Mini- 
 Town.rhat he fters of die Epifcopalians, Presbyterians, Independants, or Bap- 
 cffered to r jyftsf; but none would down with him but Quakers : Nay ,to chufe 
 Sf jJT,/^ 1 . a our Men out of any, or all thole Four Chriftian Societies j which 
 houibieLye. had he been fincere, lie could nor have denied, fince it was his own 
 
 volun 
 

 APPENDIX. 16$ 
 
 voluntary Offer : Nay, when he refufed. to clofe on this Bottom, as 
 If he feared he could not chufe Six moderate Men of common Senfe 
 in all thofe Societies 5 I then offer'd him to chufe each of us three / 
 
 Members of the Honourable Houfe of Commons *, and to them we * *"»*■ Whe< 1 
 would leave our Matter in conteft : But this he refufed alio ; and * er I h * d f 
 there being fome Gendemen prefent, they advifed me to fend him a rf,em 8 in 
 Letter to that end, and they would fubfcribe it, which I did; their Charge, Quo- 
 Names are as followeth, viz. ration, or Ci- 
 tation, ire 
 
 Samuel Grove, Henry Symons, Andalfo * >■• 109$. 
 
 Samuel Plaice, fohn Fenn ; Daniel Hajjcl, 
 
 But this Offer G. W. alfo reje£ted, which to the Gentlemen abovc- 
 named,as well as to my felf, (and indeed to all that have fince under- 
 ftood it) was,and is a Sign of great Guilt and Infincerity in him which 
 indeed is manifeft in -molt of his Anfwers to feveral Oppofers. 
 Well, I was not yet willing to give over this Meeting, but I ofter'd 
 him to lay afide thefe Men, and the Advantages I had thereby, and 
 to have a Publick Meeting with him, provided he would firft en- 
 gage, under his Hand, to Retraft and Condemn What I proved Er- 
 roneous, Blafphemous, and Idolatrous, in the. Quaker Books; but « ^ s at Iarge 
 this he alfo Refufed *, which to me is a fufficient Evidence, that in my Book, 
 he is Selfcondemn'd, and Confcious to himfelf, of the Quakers Ma- Q«akcrifmm- 
 nifeft and Apparent Errors, which he is not able to vindicate, as ther '"^' &c - 
 in an hundred Inftances I might mention, but I will only name one p " 5 ' ' 7 ' 
 in this Place, viz. W. Rogers having wrote, ' That the Quakers 
 c looked upon Geo. Fox to be in that Place amongft the Children of 
 'Light in this our Day; as Mofes was amongft the Children of. T , r , . 
 ' Jfrael in his Day, to let forth Methods of Church-Governmentf,^. ftian ^Jxr 
 as recited by me herein, p. 20. To this Geo. Whitehead replied, diftin &c. 
 faying; ' And for Geo. Fox, to be in this our Day in that VERY/*" '■ P- 9- 
 ' Place amongft the Children of Light, as Mofes was amongft the p/,rt +• f,8i ' 
 * Children oflfrael in his Day ; this Comparifon we own not, i'fe. Ex)d , 
 
 Now there was no Body faid, that he was in the VERY Place. + Read s«r- 
 upon the VERY Spot of Ground, on which Mojes flood, at Mount rmgtisWoxU, 
 Sinai ; No, but that G. Fox was, with refpect to his Power and Au- £ ^,', 5 ' s a " d 
 thority, to give forth Laws, Statutes and Ordinances in the farce £ earc s h ^ n °" 5 ' 
 Place ; that is, endued with a like Authority : And this Sence G. 52, %\. and ' 
 W. did not deny, but only that he might quibble it off, as his man- Thir d Part of 
 ner has becn+^nd thereby blind the People, for which he has a fore X q^^ s 
 Cup to drink : He that deceives willingly, and of let purpofe, as I 3 *"' to e *' p ' 
 am certain has bjen his Cuftom, what fhall we fay to fuch a one, 8 j,' too*, 
 but muft leave him to God, the Righteous Judge? ' I And d™. 
 
 G. Fox, Jun. fpeaking in the Perlbn of the Quakers, Light, viz. of aT^Ter 
 ' You have in your Imaginations put me afar off, and will not own p. 4) [0 ^o. 6 
 ' me the Light and Life in you:— -I the Light will overturn King- 
 
 k c doms, 
 
i66 APPENDIX. 
 
 c doms, Nations, and gathered Churches, which will not own me 
 
 c the Light in them: I will make you know, that I the Light 
 
 ' which lighteth every Man that comes into the World; am the 
 
 \_Xhe Light c true Eternal God, 6?V. This Whitehead vindicates*; yea, if we 
 
 c\ riftwkh' tohfider what Titles G. Fox puts upon himfelf,as Daniel Leeds fays f 9 
 
 c&v'pTi. m ' ' Pro felling Equality with God. A brief Relation, &c.' p. 2, 3. Gr. 
 
 t News of a ' Atyjl- P« &7- I2 7- Saul s Errand, p. 6,7,8. News coming up, &c. 
 
 Trumpet <■ p. 1. Quaker's Challenge, &C. p. 6. And G. Whitehead and W. 
 
 founded, & f . c p f nn ~ s Vindication of thofe Divine Attributes, given to G. Fox, 
 
 ?. 100, no. c j n t h e - ir Book^ AScriorts Search, \>. 58. //tt/dw and the J^tw, 8tc 
 
 c p. 44. Judgment fixed, g£c. p 19,20. Innocency again]} Envy, See. 
 
 ' p. 18. The Accufer of our Brethren, &c. p. 40,41. together with 
 
 ' Fc.v's being thus let up a Worker of Miracles too : I fay, (fays D.L.) 
 
 c fhouldthe Jems give equal Credit to the things contained in their 
 
 ' Books, with the Hiftory of St. Luke, how (hall they know who 
 
 « is the Mefliah, GEO. FOX, or JESUS OF NAZA- 
 
 ' R E TJtf; efpecially, fince W. Penn denies that Outward Perfbn to 
 
 ' be the Son of God, which fufter'd at Jerufaldm, who was called 
 
 ' JESUS OF NAZARETH? See his Ser. Apol. &c. p. 
 
 c 146. Good Chriftian Reader, (fays D. Leeds, , yea, andFr. Bugg) 
 
 c confider the EVENT and EFFECTS of thefe things; be (we 
 
 c intreat you) othervvife minded, thanG. Whitehead is, who fays, 
 
 c he neither confults EVENTS, nor fears EFFECTS in what he 
 
 * See his c writes*. 
 
 ■"F^ed 1 ^ ^ 1US t * ien ^ oes ll a PP ear -> not oni y by w ^ at iS riere quoted, but 
 
 Introd. '' by wnat is taken from the Quakers Books, in this, and other of my 
 
 Books ; in D. Leed's Books, in G. Keith's Books, in Th. Cr/Jp's 
 
 Books, and others, that Quakeriifn is a Plot againft Chriftianity, and 
 
 ftrikes at it Root and Branch. 
 
 not but forefie, that my old Friends will be half angry with 
 me, for mentioning W. Penn's plotting to fubvert the Government : 
 But this I can tell them honeftly.that fince the Danger of that is over, 
 andHisMajefty has, out of his Gracious Favour, pardon'd him, I 
 ihould not fpeak a Word of it, did 1 not fee, that he, and his Bre- 
 thren, are in a molt Damnable Plot againft the Chriftian Religion,of 
 which I gave Notice in The Piff. qf^kak. p. 72, to 102. But fince 
 that Alarum did not found loud enough, 1 have already, and (hall 
 yet found a little louder, that fo all Ears may tingle, and Hearts 
 ■- lament, when they fee the Honour of our Chriftian Religion 
 im'd and the Holy Proteflion thereof invaded bv-j-h-fe Impo- 
 ftors. But why fhould they be angry? W. Penn has given me a 
 Challenge to it, faying ; c This one open Challenge ^Tnake, that if 
 1 upbngft the many Plots thajr have been lpokea.ofi and feveral have 
 d for ; there has been ONE KNOWN QUAKER found 
 1 amongft them ; I confefs, that the Magiftrate is excuietble in his 
 
 1 Difcreet 
 

 APPENDIX. i6 7 
 
 Difcreet Jealoufie over US, &V. But then if one Inftance of a 
 
 Quafar-Traytor isfufficient tojuftifie rheDifcreet Jealoufie of the 
 
 Magiftrates over the Quakers, as William Pcnn truly fays-, i 
 
 then to make up a Pair, I may give a lecond Inftance ; namely, 
 
 JohnT.it rx, a Quaker, who liv'd at //////, a Mafter of a Ship, who ; 
 
 fer carrying Lead into France in the time of the late War, had his 
 
 Eftate feiz'd ; but himielf fled from his Dwelling, and was forced 
 
 to hide, as his Partner did, or elfe in all Probability he might have 
 
 been Hang'd alio ; fortho' they cannot fight, (as they fay) yet they! 
 
 can carry Lead to make Bullets for the trench to kill the Englijh 
 
 with. All which fliews, that the Magiftrates Diicreet Jealoufie o- 
 
 ver the Quakers, is excufable by W. Penns Allowance, and truly 1 
 
 am of that Opinion too ; and not only in that Cafe, but alio in their 
 
 moft Horrible Plot againft Chriftianity, which tends dire&ly to ful 
 
 vert the Faith, in the Crucified Jefus, and thetewith the Foundation 
 
 of Chriftianity ; and I pray God to give the Magiftracy a true Senfe 
 
 hereof,and then to infpire them with anHolyZeal.to find out aRemedy 
 
 For I do fay, that to me it does plainly appear, (and to as many 
 as of late have been Converfant in their Writings, and who have 
 oblerved the Tendency of them, together with the whole Ftame and 
 Model of their Church-Government ) that Quakerifm is a moft 
 Formidable Plot, and a United Confederacy againft both the Chri- 
 ftian Religion, the Profeflbrs thereof; together with the Holy Scri- 
 ptures, and Ordinances of Baptiffn and Supper, inftituted by Chrift 
 Jefus, alio his Death and Sufferings, and that in otdet to exalt their 
 ownLaws andOrdinances,fet up amongft them by their &conA Mqfrs, 
 whom they faid was raifed up to be amongft them in the fame place 
 that Mofes was, amongft the Ifraelitcs, tho' not in the VERY 
 fame Place, refpe&ing Mount Sinai, where Mofes s Feet flood, as 
 above obierv'd : But that I may not impofe upon my Reader, I*Tho'Ithink 
 ihall yet give lome other, or more Inftances, than I have given *. I have given 
 Read FT. Penns Ser. Apol. &c. p. 150. where he thus faith : c We Efficient 
 c have a Red Catalogue, that ihall ftand recorded againft our Pref- J eafons alrea * 
 ' byterian and IndcpendantYeifecutors 5 that their Names and Na t i&das and 
 ' tures too may ftink to Pofterity, tffc. read alio the Books referfd *i> J™, &c, 
 * to in the Margin f. t- 4j- -* *<- 
 
 Reader, This is the fourth Warning we have had from the ^a- J 'f^ f^* 
 hers themfelves of this Plot, which they are laying, and which they Annanhj of 
 are preparing for future Ages againft the Chriftian Name and K"#w, & c . 
 Reputation of the Englijh Magifttatef. And that the g^ua-*'^' AStr - 
 kers Plot is againft the Value of the Death of Chtift-, the Exem- iuntiwetf 
 plary Suffering of the Apoftles, and Martyrs, read Burroughs f^akerifm^c* 
 Works, p. 273. where they fay •, c That the Suffering of the Peo- {■ * 02 > ,0 3» 
 1 pie of God (call'd Quakers \ jrjrthis Age, is a greater Suffering, ? asthem3<; 
 'and moreUnjuftj than in the Days of Chrift, or his Apoftles, or arge ' 
 
 Mo- 
 
,68 APPENDIX. 
 
 * Here you ' in any time fince *. What was done to Chrift and the Apoftles, 
 fee, that the ' vvas chieHy done by a Law, and in great part by the DUE Execu- 
 Ten Perfecu- c t j on f a jj aw : And hereby it appears, the Suffering to be more 
 LRj° n dy t M a f. ' Uniuft, becaufe what the Perfecutors of old time did to the People 
 Jiacres, and * of God, they did by a Law, and by the DUE Execution of a Law. 
 ^Oueen Mm/s Now, Header, conlider what thefe new Prophets lay ; and if thou 
 1 r 8 h' arC h a11 art a Chriftian, I do iolemnly appeal to thee, whether this Do&rine 
 Sufferings of of the $&*&*> thefe Impudent Quakers, hath not a Tendency, to 
 the {Liken in caufe the Names of the Martyrs to ftink 5 in regard it implies they 
 fevenVears W ere Criminals, and fufter'd under the Emperors by a Law, and 
 M^'ft ° h • tne ^ Execution of their Law j for it could not be a JUST or 
 Oh Horrible! DUE Execution, unlets the Law were Juft: Do they not hereby, 
 " what in them lies, acquit the hard-hearted Jews ; the Barbarous Em- 
 perors, and Bloody Papifts, of their Bloody Cruelties, and Impli- 
 citely Charge both Chrift, and his Apoftles, and Martyrs, with the 
 Breach of fome Juft Laws ; for which, their Penalties (lay they) 
 were DULY Executed : And if fo, is not this a Damnable Plot ? 
 Not to name other Blafphemies, which lye Couched under this Do- 
 cfrine-, as alio, the Quakers Pride and Arrogance, thus to exalt 
 their Sufferings, from 1650, to 1657. to be greater than the Suffer- 
 ings of Chrift.his Apoftles, and Martyrs : And this Plot is ftill carry- 
 ing on with Vigour not only againft the Vresbyterians,\ndcpcndants, 
 and Baptifts, to make their Names and Natures ftink in the Noftrils 
 of future Generations, when the furviving §>jtakers bring out their 
 Books of Sufferings, alius Martyrdom. But behold this Book of 
 theirs, with the laid great Sufferings, greater than that of Chrift, 
 and all his Martyrs, iince was reprinted Anno \6-j2, and witnefled 
 too by the Approbation of Gej. Fax, Geo. Whitehead, Jofiab Cpale, 
 •For what branch Howgill, and their Hireling, Ellis Hooks*-, fo that when 
 one writ, the thev have gathered up all their Sufferings in the Reign of K. Cb. II. 
 other avouch; k_ gr ]\ ar)( i King williamlW. (for they are ftill collecting all their 
 they fpeak all Sufferings compleat and full, as in Page 41. herein) no doubt but 
 ofVneM'uid! they will make them to exceed all the Sufferings of the Patriarchs 
 ' and Prophets, from th_ Blood of Righteous Abe!, to the Days of 
 Chrift, and from thence to the end of the Chapter, in Infinitum. 
 O rare, this will be according to their Ancient Teftimony in Geo. 
 Whitehead's Sermon, inlbmuch, that this H.llith and Damnable Plot 
 is ag.iinft the Patriarchs, Prophets, Chrift, and his Apoftles, Saints, 
 and Martvrs, in all Ages and Generations. And this is the main Bu- 
 finefs of their whole Body, in their Convocations, both in their 
 Monthlv, Quarterly, Six Week, Second Day, and Yearly Meet- 
 ings :, which ought to be taken Care of atleaft Inlpected, t'ho' they 
 have their Liberty of Meeting in thofe Houfes, Iicenied to Preach 
 and Pray; for at thofe Meetings there is lb many Spectators, that 
 they cannot do that Hurt and Damage ro the Chriftian Religion, they 
 
 do 
 
APPENDIX. i6 9 
 
 do in thefe Private, Lockt, and Barr'd up Private Conventicles: 
 Thusthen it appears, that this Plot is carrying on againft King, 
 Lords, and Commons-, againft Judges, Councellors, and Lawyers, 
 againft the Reverend Bifhops, Clergy, and all Prcteftant Minifters ; 
 againft Sheriffs, Conftables, and Headboroughs-, and indeed, againft 
 the whole Race of Mankind, that profefs Faith in Jellis Chrift ; 
 and therefore how do it concern all Chriftians, that have any Love 
 to, and Faith in our Lord Jefus Chrift, that have any Refpect to our 
 Marryr'd Anceftor.who fufter'd in the Flames for our Holy Religion, 
 to take Care of the Growth of Quakcri/m, as they will anfwer the 
 Neglect of it at the Great and Notable Day of the Lord. 
 
 Objection. By this time lbme may be ready to object, faying, 
 franc is. Does not thy Zeal exceed thy Judgment? What, would ft 
 thou have Fire to come down from Heaven, and confume them, as 
 Eli as did * ? Wouldft thou have the Government fall upon them, 2 &■*&' '• '* 
 and deftroy them? z^9-54- 
 
 Anfwer. No -, by no means I would not be underftood fo ; for 
 this 1 fblemnly declare, in the Fear of God, and as I hope for Mer- 
 cy at the Great Day of Account, when both they and I (hall appear 
 before his Great Tribunal, I do defire neither ; I would not have a 
 Hair of their Head hurt : Befides, if I did defire the Growth of 
 Quakerijm, that is the ready way to increafe them •, for they glory- 
 in nothing more than to be thought gteat Sufferers : No; let them 
 have Liberty in their Licenfed Meeting-Houfes, to Preach, Pray, 
 and exercife their Talent, equal with others, if the Government 
 think fit : And as this is all that other Diffenters defire or expect, 
 fo if they had not a further Defign, this would content them, be- 
 ing that which aniwers the Subftance of all their Petitions and 
 Addreffes to the Parliament, from one Reign to another, together 
 with not being compel! d to go to any other Worfhip : And they 
 having both granted, I think 'tis all that is neceflary to anfwer the 
 Ends of all their frequent and endlefs Sollicitations : And nothing of 
 this do I defire to have them debarfd of. 
 
 Obj. But then feme may fay, what other way is there, to put a 
 Stop to the Growth of^taAenfm, if they have this Liberty ? Such 
 an Expedient would be requifire, if fuch an one were to be found. 
 
 Anfxv. I have once offered my Thoughts in this Cafe, and (hail 
 now enlarge thereon : For as I then faid, fb I ftill believe, that the 
 main requifite to work a Cure, is to know the Difeafe ; which, 
 when found out, an otdinary Practitioner mav prefcribe a Remedy 
 iboner than an abler Phyfician, who knows not the Difeafe. Bcfidcs 
 this, I have heard, that when a Bill for the Regulation of the weli 
 Tanning of Leather was brought into the Ucuj'c ci Parliament, one of 
 the Peers of the Lord's Houie being willing to inform himf.lf into 
 the Nature of that Aff.iir, he apply 'd himfelf to a Cobl'er -, difcourfes 
 
 Z witfi 
 
 » 
 
 > 
 
, 7 o APPENDIX. 
 
 with him about this, that, and the other Default in Leather, and 
 what Ways might be found to remedy the Abufes thereof, for the 
 Publick Good. The Coblcr tells his Honour what he knew, by 
 
 i many Years Experience, and told his Lordlhip how it might with 
 
 Eafe be remedied : Inlomuch, that when the laid Bill came under 
 
 ** Debate in the Houfe, his Lordlhip was lb well skill'd, not only in 
 
 the Means to be ufed, but in the Terms of Art, that his Lordlhip 
 fpake like Ibme experienced Tanner, who by his Diicourie gave 
 Light to the whole Houfe. Now whether this was 16 or no, I will 
 not determine, but 'tis not Improbable, lince the wileft of Men may 
 lometimes improve by fuch weak Helps, as in other Cafes 'tis fre- 
 quent ; fuch a Vertue is Humility : And thereupon, in anfwer to the 
 Objeclion, I (hall fay thus much. 
 
 Virjiy Let G. Whitehead^ and fome others of the §>jiakers chief 
 Leaders, and Fr. Bugg, &c. befummon'd by Authority, to appear. 
 And whereas G. Whitehead, &c. has given in a Sheet to the Parlia- 
 ment, Anno 1693. fuggefting, that Fran. Bugg, &c. has wronged the 
 ^jtakcrs in Charge, Citation, and Obfervation: And if G. W. can 
 make it appear lb, (for our Law judge no Man before it hear him) 
 let Fran. Bugg, &c. be made an Example. Again, on the other 
 Hand,if it appear that Fran. Bugg, &c. has not wronged the fakers, 
 nor falfly charged them, either in Book or Page •, and that thole Points 
 of Doctrine objected againft the Quakers by F. B. Hfc. be found to 
 flrike at the Foundation of the Chriftian Religion, and to fubvert 
 the Faith, then let the Qjmkcrs be obligd to renounce them, and 
 condemn thofe Books which fo teach : THIS, yea, this, would ftrike 
 
 * ? hlS > s the Qjiakcr/fm to the Heart*, and give it a Mortal Wound, andpre- 
 iby g\ w*&c ^ rvc t ^ c §&&kers too ■, and the Books being condemn d to be burnt, 
 when they as lt would remove the Scandal brought upon the Chriftian Religion, 
 cry out, Fran, lb would it be a Means toRefcue their Wives and Children from 
 B>'gg would theJawsof'Quakerifm, that fatal Mifchief to Mankind, and pre- 
 cision ferve others from falling into it. For now many of them think their 
 
 Teachers write and fpeak from the Eternal Spirit ; whole ib fpeak- 
 + Truth de- ing is of greater Authority than the Bible f : And that 'tis as lawful 
 « nd A " s «! e t0 k urn trie Bible, as their Books, Papers, and Queries * : Then 
 U^a en, & c . wou i^ thofe,who are now Tinctured with the Leaven of Quakerifm, 
 
 * Truth's De- vomit it up, and fbrfake their Errors ; This I take to be one proper 
 fence, &c. Remedy, and poflible might cfteft the Cure : If not, 
 
 p. 2. joa. -Secondly, If the Quakers would Apologize, that now they believe 
 otherwile than they did formerly ; then, asaProofoftheirSinceri 
 ry and Converfion, let them (having firft condemn'd their Books as 
 afbrefaid) let out certain Articles oftheir Faith, in Plain, Clear, and 
 Poiiitive Words, agreeable to Scripture, (iince of late they have 
 lb much pretended to be Orthodox therein) and attheClofeofrhem 
 condemn all their other Books, which teach the contrary, particular- 
 ly by Name, . Thirdly, 
 
APPENDIX. 171 
 
 Thirdly, The next thing requifite, ( to make a firm and lading 
 Cure to them, their Heirs, and Succeflbrs) is, to admit each Con- 
 gregation of Quaker s to have their Teacher, (or two, if one will not 
 do ) : And likewife, that thefe Teachers may attend only their own ~ 
 
 Flock, and not to range all the World over \ at moft, not above Five 
 or Ten Miles, to hold forth, left this Putrified Sore break out again, 
 and the laftendbe worie rhan their beginning : And as this, thus 
 granted, is, what other Profeflbrs, Diflenters from the Church of 
 England, are content with, lb will it anfwer all the juft Ends of 
 that Liberty of Confidence, lb much by them follicited for, and ib 
 graciouily already granted by the Government. 
 
 Fourthly, Let them not be permitted to hold Yearly CONVOCA- 
 TIONS with Doors Lockt, Bair'd, or Guarded by Men, on Pur- 
 pofe to prevent Infpe&ion, in order to make Lawsagainft the Laws 
 of the Land 5 and with reipeci to their Subjects, to repeal fuch 
 Laws as fuit not their Defign ■, which fhews, that they are a Go- Whofe Laws 
 vernment within the Government : For as this Practice no DhTen- ^ made, _ 
 ters (Quakers only excepted) do defire, ( and indeed without his ^ even"" 
 Majefty's Licence,more than the Bifhops of the eftablifhed Church fronimany of 
 can Legally do) ib would it be a Means to work a perfect Cure of their own 
 this (fo much to be lamented) Gangreen ofQuakerifm. People. 
 
 fifthly and La/My, That they may not be permitted to teach School 
 Publickly •, for thereby they corrupt the Youth, and lay a Foundati- 
 on for the next Age, for the Seeds ofQiiakerifm to ipring, and put 
 forth again ; for they teach G. Yoxs Journal, which contains fuch 
 Doftrine, as tends to undermine the Chriftian Religion. 
 
 Thus having anfwer' d thefe two Objections, I mall add no more 
 on this Head, only referr to my former Book*, for more of this* ThePWureof 
 Nature, which probably may be of good life, if the poor Man's ft'"W' w > 
 Councel be taken |. Read Jojbua the pth. at your Leifure. ** a " a " p; "*» 
 
 And now to conclude, with a Word of Encouragement xb fuch + Ecchf.9. 14, 
 who are concern'd in the Difcovery of Qiuikcrifm : Do you not re- 1 $, 16. 
 member the Day, (I am fure I do) how the Quaker Teachers went 
 into Churches, anddifturb'd the Eftablifhed Minifters? But now 
 none muftdifturb them j if they do, the Officer is call'd for, and 
 the Offender profecuted : A certain Sign what they would do in o- 
 ther Caies, had they Power. I fay, do you not remember how they 
 challenged the Publick Minifters to difpute, to anfwer their Que- 
 ries ? ac. It would take a Volumn to handle this Matter thoroughly- 
 but behold here is a Change with them ; you may challenge them 
 long enough, but cannot get them out of their Holes , they lee, and 
 know they are diicover'd ; this makes them Timorous, and as the 
 Seriptures lay, Featfulnefs furprize the Hypocrites. They lee this, 
 that, and the other Book come out againft them, which they can- 
 not anlwer, r.or are they able to defend therafelves • and now they 
 
 Z 2 call 
 
i 7 i APPENDIX. 
 
 call out for a Ceffation of Arras, and are for an Amicable Conver- 
 tation ; yea, for Peace and Qiiietneis ; and 'tis Seditious to chal- 
 lenge them, and remind them of their Errors ; thisisagainft Magna 
 i "harta, fay they. Geo. Keith hath three times called them out, and 
 challenged them, but they dare not appear, but like felf-condemn'd 
 Apoftates, lye mute^ whereby it's manifeft, their Innocency fbmuch 
 ^See hisBook, boafted of,is not Triumphant *,as G.W. fays : And therefore, the way 
 bmtumy Tri- to deal with thefe cunning Sophifters, G. W. iffc. is ftill to purfue 
 mmphmt, &c t h e m with Challenges, to call them into the Field ; and thereupon I 
 will pitch my Standard here, on Behalf of theChriftian Religion, 
 and Proteftant Profeffion, againft Quakerifm, Head and Tail, and 
 once more challenge G. Whitehead to appear on his own Propofition 
 to the Parliament, viz. for each of us to chufe four or fix moderate 
 i I call it his, Men of common Senfe and Reaibn, out of the Profeilbrs t of the 
 be " ufeh « did Chriftian Faith, and let us difpute it out fairly, and aboveboard: 
 offeTromeet And thereupon I {hall renew my Challenge, and let itftandhere as 
 me before a Monument of the Quakers Cowardice, and Self Condemnation, 
 ANY Six, if" they'd rather lye under this heavy Charge following, than to come 
 Ten, or 0Qt ^ an( j ma k e t heir Defence, Viz. 
 
 derate* Men" &'% That the y den y ^ us °^ Nazareth, who was Born of the 
 <«>•*. Blefled Virgin Mary, whofufter'd without the Gates of Jerujalem, 
 
 tobeChrift, the Son of the Living God. 
 
 Secondly, That they deny the Scriptures, by their lpeaking 
 contemptuoufly of them; calling them Carnal, Death, Duft, 
 Beaftly Ware, Serpents Meat, &7V. and that Preaching out of 
 them, is Conjuration. 
 
 Thirdly, That they exalt their own Sayings and Writings above 
 the Scriptures, as being of greater Authority ,and of more Certainty ; 
 not only in Words, but in Pra&ice, 
 
 Fourthly, That they undervalued the Death and Sufferings" of 
 Chrift Jefus, by granting, they were Inflicted by, or for the Tranf- 
 greffion of a Law, and executed in a great Meafure ( at leaft ) by 
 the due Execution of a Law. 
 
 Fifthly, That they exalt their own Sufferings, as greater, and 
 more unjuft, than the Sufferings of Chrift, his Apoftles, and Mar- 
 tyrs ; yea, even than all the Perfections, from the Days of Quiff, 
 to the Year of their Rile, namely 1650. 
 
 Sixthly, And that (for thefe and the like Reafbns) the Quakers 
 Books (which thus reach) are Blafphemous; and their Pra&ices 
 (in their Adorations) are Idolatrous. 
 
 This is my Charge, which I have often laid down, and which I 
 now renew, and offer to make good upon them, if he will chufe his 
 Men, and meet me according to his own voluntary Offer, and my 
 Acceptation thereof:, or otherwife, becaule I will give him his 
 
 Choice 
 
APPENDIX. i 7 ) 
 
 Choice of twoMethods,t'/z.or on CONDITION*,that he G. White- ' Ato*/W I 
 bead, will engage under his Hand to Retra£t their Errors, if proved offer ' d W" 
 upon them, out of the Qtiaker Books, wrote by their approved Au- £^ f ™ t {£ 
 thors, and condemn the Books which teach this Horrible Doctrine, f ame Charge, 
 promifing my lelf alfo to engage under my Hand to Retract what he againft the 9 
 prove erroneous in my Books, or falfe in Fact, relating to my charg- %•"?*£' £"* 
 ing the Quakers, thereby making them publick Satisfaction •, and to r *" ottru,e 
 burn my Books, if found guilty, as a Teftimony of my Injuftice * : * a Sign of 
 And to this I fubfcribe my Name, Augufi. 3. i<5p8. Fran. Bugg. my not being 
 
 This then is my Flag of Defiance, which I hold out to G. W. &c. £ on /" ci , ous .°* 
 this is my Standard which I have pitched ON Behalf of my Saviour Uu,lt h€re,n ' 
 JefusChrift, which the Quakers have Contemned, Difbwn'd, and 
 Denied to be the Son of God ; ON the Behalf of the Scriptures, 
 which the Quakers fay are Duft, Death, Beaftly Ware, Serpents 
 Meat, CvV. ON the Behalf of the Holy Ordinances of Baptiim and 
 the Lord's Supper, which Chrift Inftituted ; ON the Behalf of 
 the Church of England, both Magiftrates and Minifters, which the 
 Quakers have moft wickedly Traduced and Abufed, as Intolerable 
 to bear, and Seditious in its own Nature. Let them come forth out 
 of their Dens and Holes, and acquit themfelves like Men, if they 
 think I wrong them, or elfe be content to lye under my Charge, as 
 felf-condemned Perfonf; and let them alio know, that my Book, New 
 Rome Arraigned, &c. (lands unfliaken, and that G. Whitehead is 
 not Triumphant, but forced by the Guilt of his Confcience, to 
 fubmit to the Charge above exhibited, which is Ignoble and Bale, 
 on his Part, and will lower his Toplail, to his great Abatement, 
 Shame, and Confufion of Face, in the Eyes of all forts of Intelligent 
 Perfons. 
 
 Thus having ftated the Conteft between GJr.and me, and advifed 
 my Friends andFelIow-Labourers,not fb much to anlwer the Quakers 
 Books, as to Charge and Recharge them again and again, till they 
 at Lift, ( being confounded with Shame, Horror and Confufion, ) 
 be forced to come out : But Ifhall fhew Whitehead's Fallacy in his 
 way of anfwering Books, only by onelnftance^ for I having in' my 
 Book New Rome Arraign d, &c. p. 47. by way of Retaliation up- 
 on the Quakers, who call the Publick Minifters, Antichrift's and: 
 Deceivers, and the World's Teachers, I having given Fifteen In- 
 ftances why the Quakers are the World's Teachers and Deceivers, 
 thefecondof which was this: The Quakers^ who teach, that the 
 Name J E S US and CHR IS T belong to the whole Body, and eve- 
 ry Member in the Body, a* wetk, and at amply, m to Chrift the 
 Head; are of the World, ana Deceivers *. Now this was no Quota- * ^» Rme 
 tion, but a Charge, which reft for me to prove • I grant the Word -^^'iw^&c- 
 AMPLY is by me added by way of Illuftration: But the Words p: 47- 
 AS WELL, thatG. W. neither mention, nor diiown. IfiacPening- 
 
 fcvz's> 
 
r?4 APPENDIX. 
 
 to/is Words are, Dot b not the Name (Jefiis -and Chrift) belong to 
 the whole Body, and every Member in the Body, AS WELL of 
 to the HEAD: — So that the N A ME is not given to the VES- 
 
 Jl$?£r*j 5EL ' but t0 lheX ' !ture 1N TH £ VESSELS P. 33. The 
 Ifaac ftnag-S&'Pture (l °" exprefly diftinguijh between CHRIST and the 
 toh,&c p. 17. GAR ME A T which he wore ; between HIM that came, and the B0- 
 DT,in which he came ; between the SUBSTANCE, which war VAIL- 
 ED, and the VAIL which VAILED it. Lo I come; a Body 
 haft thou prepared me ; there is plainly HE, and the BO DT in 
 which HE came-, there was the OUTWARD VESSEL, 
 and the IN WAR D LIFE, this we certainly know (lays Ifaac) 
 and can never call the BODILT G AR ME N T, CH R IS T, 
 &c. And whoever read rhe Scriptures, may clearly lee that the 
 Quakers are falfe Teachers, in that they firft teach, that the Name 
 JESUS and CHRIST belong to every Believer, AS WELL as to 
 CHRIST THE HEAD, fince they can firft call him, as you have 
 heard,yl Garment, a Veffel, a Vail, a Body, but in exprefs Words.rhey 
 lay, they cannot call HIM Chrift : But whoever read the Scriptures 
 by me quoted, in the Sixteenth Chapter, I hope they will be convin- 
 ced. And St. John lays, Then Pilate therefore took Jefus, and 
 fcourgedhim; Then came Jefus forth, -wearing a Crown oj Thorns ■, 
 Then the Soldiers, when they had Crucified Jefus, they took his Gar- 
 ments ; But one of the Soldiers with a Spear pierced his Side : She 
 turned hcrfelf backhand Jaw J ejus: Jefus faith unto her, touch me not, 
 for I am not yet afcended: Thomasf aid,except Ifhall fee in his Hands 
 the Print of the Nails, and put my Finger into the Print of the 
 Nails, and thrujln/y Hand into his Side, I will not believe : Then 
 faith be (Jel'us) to Thomas, reach hither thy Finger, and behold my 
 Hands, and reach hither thy Hand, and thrufl it into my Side, and 
 be not fai thief s, but believing : And Thomas anfwered unto him, 
 my Lord, and my God: And many other Signs truly did J ef us, in 
 . _ the Prefence of his Difciples, which are not written in this Book ; 
 
 -a Tl'io but thefe are written, that ye might believe that J E SU S is the 
 1 % n, a y", CHRIS T, the S N OF GOD: And that believing, you might 
 27, 18, 30, 3 1. fane Life through HIS NA M E f. 
 
 Thus then it is evident, that the SAME JESUS that was Born 
 
 sfrlftc oi the Vir ¥ n M,,r ^ the SAME J ESUS which fuffer ' d at 7 er $f a - 
 p. itf! C lem, is the Chrift which the Apoftles preached, and which all true 
 
 Ifaac Pen- Chriftians believe in; yet as evident, that tlu s do not own 
 
 ningtonV him, nor believe in him ; for, as above noted, Ifaac Peningtcn 
 tf^r'°"&cc r °~ *~ a y 5 ' t ^ iele was tne ^ utwar d Body, which they can never call 
 h *7>' 3 3-' Ciirift : II T . Penn, he fays, But that the Outward P erf on which f uf 
 Geo. White- J cr'd wai properly the Son of God, WE utterly deny. Well, hut 
 he.idV jua'z- ] c[ us ] iear r ] lis G. Whitehead, who thus reply'd, frying, Lie ny that 
 "^g" 3 ™' the Quakers teach that the Name J ejus and thrift belong to every 
 
 ntber 
 
APPENDIX. vjf 
 
 Member in the Body, at amply as to the Head: Where proves he w B .. , 
 (Fran. Bugg) or AMPLT? SaysG. Whitehead. wbrks^iiy, 
 
 Mark, Reader, here is a Tacit Confeffion of the Words AS 130, 307. 
 WELL, tho' he carps at my Word AMPLY, which I put in for The Sv>l > rd »/• 
 Illuftration fake, it not being a Quotation, but a Charge, which I t ^ M ^ dramH 
 Hill offer to make good, if he will meet me on his own Propofition ; ' 5 " ' 
 for I take the Word AMPLY to mean no more, but as Plainly, as 
 Evidently, as Apparently •, and the Quakers fay, that the Name JE- 
 SUS and CBRIST belong to every Believer, AS WELL as to the 
 HEAD. This Whitehead denies not, this he difowns not, only 
 carps at the Word AMPLY. 
 
 And therefore my Advice to all my Fellow-Labourers is, to take, 
 this my Method, give New-Rome Charge after Charge, as Geo. V „** N r 
 Keith has done *, as Daniel Leeds is a doing f, who has been a t iwr. 
 Quaker about 20 Years, and let this be theTeft between Corijiiani- + ATrumpet 
 iy and Qiiakcrifm: If the Qtia/ters be Innocent and Sincere, (zho f 0ttndeii out °f 
 miftaken thro' Error) they'll come out ; if Infincere, and Self Con- J c w^'fir 
 fcious of their Hypocrifie, they'll not appear, but Rave and Rail like 
 Rahfhekah at a diftance ; by this Teft ihall the Plot be di (covered, 
 and the Conipirators be made manifeft : And I am not without 
 Hopes, but that what I have faid, in Conjunct ion with my Fellow- 
 Travellers, will be a Means to preferve fome from running Headlong 
 (as the Swine did) into the deep Lake of ^luikcrijm, and to con- 
 vert others that are milled, as well as be ufeful to the Church of 
 God in general. Which God of his Mercy grant, for Jefus Chrift 
 his fake. Amen. 
 
 Auguft ifth. i6p8. branch Bugg. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 Kind Reader, I fliall defire thee to Retfifie thefe Prefs Errors, which were chiefly occa- 
 fim'dfor want of Deliberate Examination, thro' fome Indifpofition of Body; which held me 
 great part of the writing hereof. 
 
 PAge 4. line 9. for Fathers read Paflors, p. 31. 1. 1 p. f. 1696. r. 1676. p. 23. 1. 8.- 
 r. many Tears, p. 47. 1. 22. f.and r. or, p. 55. dele or condemn Allions, p. 76. laft 
 Marginal Note, f, 1695. r. 1659. p. 65. 1. 12. after Vomit, i.e. Foxonian Quakers, p. 
 37. 1. 13. f. dwelt r. dealt, p. 128. 1. 7. f. Scenfcs r. Scenes, 1. 15. f. wait r. rej'erv'd, p, 
 1:9.1. 29. f. hear r. bear, p. 131. 1. 38. f. Iglorifie r. I have glorify'd, p.139. I.13. dele 
 did, p. 1 1 9. 1. 26. f. tho r. thorough, p. 1 67. 1. 8. dele alfi, p. 1 5 3. 1. 1 4. there wants a 
 Parenchefis, beginning at I told, ending at London, p. 154. 1. 35. f. Approached I. Re- 
 proached, p. 157. 1. 16. f. work.:, walkj p. 159. 1. 14. f, mm r. now, 
 

 
 A Catalogue o/BOOKS, Writ by Fran. Bugg, 
 and Sold by Walter Kettleby, at ^BiQhops- 
 Head, in St. P«V Church-Tard. 
 
 i. T~*\E Chriftian.t LibemiLt, or Chriftian Liberty ^ fhewing 
 \_J the Mifchief of thelP//^/j Irapofirions. In Off. bound. 
 
 2. The Painted Harlot, botrrftript and whipt , or the Milchic- 
 Impofitions of the Quakers further manifefted. 
 
 3. Realbn againft Railing i being a Supplement to the Painted 
 Hatlotftript and whipt, Gfa in Quarto. 
 
 4. Innocency Vindicated, and Envy Rebuked, &c. in Quarto. 
 
 5. The Quakers Detected, and their Errors Confuted, &c. in Qu. 
 
 6. A Letter to the Qjiakers, lhewing their frequent AddreiTes to, 
 andPraversfbr the lateK. J. II. and their Non-Addrefs, Ofc. to 
 King William III. 
 
 7. Battering Rams againft New Rome, &c. in Quarto. 
 
 8. One Blow againft Ne;o-Rome, &c. in Quarto. 
 
 p. KcK-Romc tinmask'd, and her Foundation ihaken, 6~V. Quar. 
 
 10. Xac Rome Arraign d, and out of her own Mouth Condemn'd. 
 iS'c. in Quarto. 
 
 11. A Sheet deliver'd to the Parliament, Decern. 1693. intituled, 
 Something in Anlwer to the Quakers Allegations, &c. 
 
 12. Qiiakerifm Withering, and Chriftianity Reviving, CV. Off. 
 
 1 3. Quakerilm Anatomized, &c. being a Challenge to Rich.Afhby. 
 
 14. A Sheet, intituled, The Quakers Yearly -Meeting Impeached 
 on Behalf of the Commons of England, &c. 
 
 1 5. A fecond Summons to the City Abel, by way of Metaphor, 
 to deliver upS/WwtheSon of Bicbri, 2 Sam. 20. i.e. Gee. Tvhite- 
 head by Name, cTV. 
 
 16. The Quakers fet in their True Light, &c. in Qilarto. 
 
 17. ABriefHiftory of the Rife, Growth, and Progrefs of Qua- 
 kerism, &c. in Offavo. 
 
 18. The Picture of Quakerifm drawn to the Life, &c. in OH. 
 
 1 2. A fober Expoftularion with the Hearers of the Quakers, 
 touching their Mercenary Teachers, U'c. in 0::. 
 
 20. The Pilgrim's Progrefs, from Quakerilm to Chriftianity, t?V. 
 in Quarto.