DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Treasure %gom \ \ AND Chriftianity Reviving. OR, ABrief Reply T O T H E £ittafetrS! Pretended Vindication. In Anfwer to a Printed Sheet ddiver'd to the PARLIAMENT WHEREIN Their Errors, both in Fundamentals and Circumftantials, are further dete&ed, and €>♦ KLlfitteljCaD further unmaskd. 'K. By an Earnefl Contender for the Chnftian Faith, < Francis Bugg. Licens'd, March 3. 169^.. Becaufe I have called, and ye refujed, I have Jl retched forth my bard, and no man regarded : I alfo will laugh at your calamity y and moc\ when your fear comet h. Prov. 1. 24, 2.6. LONDON: Printed for the Author, and fold by 7. Dunton at the Ravi* in the Poultry, and J.GkiiUm BookfeUcr ia B^hopfgatt^Yicty 1^04, T O T H E Right Reverend Father in God EDWARD, Lord Bifliop oiGloncefter. My Lord, SINCE* by Divine Providence, after my many Years Convention with the Quakers, I heard the firft Sermon by a Publick Minifter in your Church, whereby my Underftanding was in great part cleared from thofe cloudy Mifts which -fell from the confufed Notions and uncertain Doctrines of the Quakers; I think my (elf bound in Duty to return Publick Thanks to God for that his Pro- vidence and Token of his Efpecial Favour ; as alfo to his Servants, who labour in the Word and Do&rine, and for the fame ( however dpfpifed by the Ignorant) arc worthy of Double Honour. And having been concerned in Confcience to unveil the Teachers of the Quakers, who bring in Qamuable Herefits> even denying the A z Lord The Epijlle Dedicatory. Lord that bought them ; I prefumed to prefent your Lordfhip with the enfuing Difcourle, who, as you know how to re- buke with all Authority fuch as wilfully maintain Errors, fo you alfo know how to bear with, and forbear, fuch as through Infirmity may unwillingly err. I there- fore do moft humbly offer what I have wrote tcvyour Lordfhips Perufal, and fhall moft willingly fubmit to your Cenfure the Matters therein contained .: And if, for want of Judgment in the Matters contro- verted, I have wronged the Quakers, I fhall moft willingly Retrad:, and make them publick Reparation ; believing on the other hand, that if they be found guilty of the Errors charg'd, that your Lordfliip will think it requifite, thaf they, under their Hands, make an ingenuous Retractation, according to their Pretences in their printed Works. I am, My Lord, Tour Lordfhips moft humble ', and moft obedient Servant, Fra. Bugg. THE PREFACE. Reader, PRovidence hath fo attended me, as that a Friend of mine ( beholding the Jnjufiice of G. W. to me, and efpecially his Pervertions of the Truths afferted by me) have anjwered his Book falfely (tiled Innocency triumphant, &c. by his Book filed Some Animadverfions, &c.fo that I need jay nothing in anjwer to it. As for his large Quotation out of my Book De Chriftiana: Liber- tate, it wasfome years before I left the Quakers, and which G. W. need not boafi of for it was le- velled at the Ufurfation of their Womens Mee- tings ; and it gave Them a fere Wound as well as G. W. who wrote in favour of them : And in- deed the Matter was fo weti, managed, and the Book fo well wrote, the Time confidered, as lam glad it was no worje $ though I am grieved to be- hold fo much wrote by me without any mention of the Death and Sufferings ofChri[t 9 his Refurr edit- on, Afcenjion, and the Benefits accrewing thereby to Mankind ; and the more to confider how many there are led Captive, as I once was, to the Anti- chrifiian Voclrine of the Quakers, for whofe fake I have been concerned, and had not G. W. with- stood our words, I do think there might have ban a better Under jtanding than there has. For my fart) I declare folemnly y no Man canpurfue an Ac~ commodation with more Sincerity than I have done : How have J wrote / how have I woo'd and en- treated The Preface. treated) that we might have a meeting to [entente what was wrongs and to prej> after Truth ! And when 1 came to London, N oven: be r la ft. before J printed the Sheet to the Parliament, I wots f G. W. to come to me, that we might have a mu- ting, that Jo he and I might engegt u Retrattation if need were. And as this was pursuant to their own Vropo'il mentioned^. 2. Jo it r/.tgbt have had ag.od efftcl, viz I being now in Town , if you will come to my Lor'gin^ you Jriall be weico ne ; if you will have an hours privace Diicourfe, I will promife, ifyou will uo the like, never to take notice of whnt paffes,or be both at liber- ty, which you pleafe : If we can agree on terms to have a meeting, with 6 or 8 of a fide, it may be a means to prevent farther Contro- vert : If you do not think good to come to me, ifyou invite me to come to your Hoafe, or any other place, I will, &c. This I wrote before I printed the Sheet deliver J to the Parliament >but he w as fo far from conjenting to what I propofed, that he gave me no anjwer fo my Letter ; and when I (aw that, I knowing what they bad done againft me, I thought it prudence, for my own prefervation as well as for a general Good, to keep up the Teft againft Quakerifm, 1 mean the Oath ; for tho they fay, W. Smith's Cate- chifm, p. 79. Qiieft. c And are you fo dtfpofed 1 toward your Enemies, as that you cannot Jeek Re- ' venge y &C ? Anf Tes, that is the difpoftion of 'cur Nature f not to fee k Revenge, though we Jo 'fuffer The Preface. ' fuffer Wrong y for the Revenging Nature is in the * fall ; but it is not fo with us, whom God has c redeemed, ^Lz. I fay, notwithstanding this f in- tended Innocency, I found the Quakers jo fallen, and jo much unredeemed, that IJhould rather fall into the Hands of Tapifts, if they had power ^ for had they power, they would be as often in the Tali as out of the Fall, as often in old Adam as in their new, as often in the Unredeemed as the Redeemed State ; Jo the belt way is to keep up the Heft : Keep them out of F laces ofTruft and Government, and then they can only bark, and JIkw their Teeth ; —Canes timidi vehementius latrant. But fince fetch as revenge themf elves are in the Fall, then they are not in their Star, their Branch, G.Fox ; for hefaid, He was (when living) ia. a ftate beyond the Firft Adam that fell, and in the ftate of the Second Adam that never fell ; That his very Marriage was above the ftate of the Firft Adam in his Innocency, in the ftate of the Second Adam that never fell ; and that he never fell nor changed ; that he had power to bind and loole whom he plea- fed, &c. See The Quakers unmask'd, p. 27. Surely then W.C. andG. W'/ other Creatures was all in the Fall, and unredeemed ; out of G. Fox, that never fell nor changed ; out of their Star j out of their. Branch notwithftanding their idolizing his Motions, his Travels, h/s Sufferings } andmertto- riout Labour s, and Books printed and reprinted, fent abroad and difperfed : but left G. W. leave out the Hiftory of his Glorified State in the Reprint, 1 may Recite it ; fee The Examination and Tryal cf G. j%x,at Zanwfter Affize, &c, p.21. 'And The Preface. e And before I came to the Bar, I was moved to € fray, that the Lord would confound their Envy, c and the thundering Voice anfwerd, I have glori- c fed thee, and will glorifie thee again. And 1 c was fo piled full of Glory, that my Head and Ears 1 was filed full of it : And that when the Trum- 1 pet founded, and the Judges came up again, they c all appear das dead Men under me j&c. G.Fox. Alluding to John 12. 28. & 1 6. 14. & 17. 1. Now you that are Difciplesto G. W .pray mea- sure the Truth of the printed Hijhry ofQ. Fox his Travels ; if you find his Glorified State fairly re- lated, as it is in his Rook above recited, you may be affured there is fomz Truth in it • if not, you may without breach of Charity conclude the J aid Hilfory a Romance, a partial Story, Jome true, fome falfe, Jome put in, jome left out, pieced and patched, mended and painted. BOOKS written by Fra. Bugg. 1. "p\E ChrilHan* Libert ate. 2. JLI Die painted Harlot both ftriptand whipt, &c. 3 Reafon againft failing, ,&c. 4. Innocency Vindicated, &e. 5. The Quakers detected, &c 6. Battering Rams ugatnff New Rome, &c. 7. One Blow more at New Rome, &c 8. NewRme unnrn\Cd i &c. p. New Rome arraign d, &c. la Qaakerifm Withering, &c. Befides a Letter to the Quakers *, and a Sheet to the Parliament, &c. ERRATA. PAge 3. lin. 12. dele thing *, p. 40. I. 9. for never read feidomy p. 43. I.27. for recommended r. mentioned j p. 52. 1. 23. for 2ir. 20. p. 58. 1. 27. iox.Hin. r. John ; p. 71. I. 20. for left r. weaker i f p, 60, I. 14. for they out r. tbey cut. cum- Uttafterifm mitfyttiwgi BUT Chriftianity Reviving. — i i ■ ■ ■■ ' ■' ■ i i n i m — m The Introdndion. Courteous Reader, TH E main thing I intend is a Defence of my Sheet to the Parliament, from the Falfe Gloffes of George Whitehead in the Quakers pretended Vindica- tion ; and to fhew wherdn I have offer'd to meet George Whitehead, to debate matters, wherein he feys I have wronged the Quakers^, which I am not confcious of: And this I did, firft, in anfwer to his Challenge p. 4.. viz,. To make it appear before any fix, ten, or twelve competent Witneffes, which cannot be ratio- nally thought to be Quakers, in regard they are Parties concerned. Solikewife did I offer to debate the matter, when I allowed him to have Quakers, upon condition that what they Wild not Juftifie he ftould Retraft : which B It 2 Quahfirifm Withering, is according to their Offer in like Cafes > as in the Epiftle in the front oiEdw* Burroughs 's Works, &c. viz. c And fo gladly would we f be made manifeft to all the World, — That 1 we may freely and cheerfully, four, ten, * twenty, more or fewer of us, give as many * of the wifeft and ableft of the Priefts and * Profeffors a meeting for Difpute at any * place, and for what time ; and let fuch, c whether them or us, that cannot prove our c felves to be of the True Church, but * found in Error, &c renounce all their Re- * ligion, and confefs to all the World uader * their Hands, that they have been deceived. € And upon thefe, or any equal Terms, c would we willingly engage all, or any one, of r thefe Se&s, &c. As in New- Rome untnaslCd^ f. 2. the (aid Challenge is by me then acce- pted, and by G. W. in his EjJ'ay, &c p. y. re- jected ; which alio is W. Penns method. Again in my printed Sheet to the Parliament, p. 2. I offer'd before ten or twelve impartial Men, to produce every Book and Page which I therein quoted : This I did then offer with the Sheet in my Hand, and many Quakers prefent,but none of them put me upon proof; but G. W. in his pretended Vindication, p. 4. faid, K lG.W. freely offer to make it appear, c before any fix , ten, or twelve competent Wit- * nelTes, who are moderate Men of Sence and 1 Reafbn, that F. B. has grofly abufed and ' perverted Truth, and wronged the People f calFd Quaker s> both in Charge,Citation and. but Chrijiianity Reviving. 3 ' Obfervation in hfs faid Sheet, &c* Thus far then we agreed as to Matter of Debate : I in my Sheet ofFer'd to produce every Book and Page quoted, before ten or twelve im- partialA4en : And G. W. offered to make it appear, before any fix, ten, or twelve moderate Men, that I had wronged them : So that no- thing remained now but my coming to Lon- don to joyn Iffue with G. TV. and purfiiant the 27th of January 1695. 1 did, and fent him the Charge following 5 which had he kept to his word [ any *£#*£] we had debated the matter ; but nothing would do with him but Quakers on his fide, which tho' I was loth, yet upon condition of aretra&ation of what 1 proved againft them, and which they could not juftifie, I at laft contented, and to that I held them, feeing it is, as above oblerved, their own method, propofed by Edu>. Bur- roughs and W. Penn, to the ?apfts. And whe- ther I have not herein acquitted myfelf,I leave the World to judge. Francis Bugg'j Charge againft the Quakers. 1. HpHEY deny Jefus of Nazareth, who A was born of the Bleffed Virgin Mary to be Chrift,and the efficient caufeof Mans Salvation, &c. 2. Their Books are Blafphemous, and their Pra&ices Idolatrous. 62 3- They 4 Qnakgrifm Withering, 3. They deny the Scriptures, by Ipeaking contemptuoufly of them, calling them Death, Duft.and Serpents-meat > and that Preaching out of them is Conjuration. 4. They defpife the Ordinances of Jefus Chrift, as Baptifm and the Lord's Supper, faying, They arofe from the Pope, and are no part of God's Worfhip ; to which their practice of laying them afide as ufeleis fay Amen. y. They undervalue the Death and Suffe- rings of our Lord Jefiis Chrift. 6. They exalt their own Writings above the Scriptures, and their own Sufferings above the Sufferings of Chrift. Obferve, that I do not charge thefe Errors upon all that go under the Name of Quakers, as George Keith, and divers others that are fe- parate from the Foxonian Party, wh® alfo charge them with Damnable Herefies and Bo6trins of Devils, and fuch Errors as no Troteftant Society would tolerate, &c. as at large in their Book extant,e£"c and as in New- Rome unmask' J, &c 1 have more largely ex- plained my felf, p. 68. to 71. Francis Bugg'j particular Charge againfi George Whitehead. 1. T TE is a publick Defamer. 2. A wicked Jrl Forger. 3. A wilful Lyer. 4. A grofi Perverter. j. A falls Gloffer. 6. A •le- but Chrijiianity Reviving. if deceiver of the People. This I offer to prove, and when done, before the fame Men to an- fwer any Charge which G. W. fhall exhibit againft me, Francis Bugg. Here follows the fubftance of the Letter I lent him as Cover to the Charge, In anfwerto your faint Challenge in your fret en* //^Vindic.p.4. to meet me in any place in Lon* don, I am come to prove both the general and par- ticular recited Charge before eight moderate Mini- sters, each of us to chufe four, excepting againft Quakers, Ranters, and Muggletonians, but give you your choice, whether to chufe the whole number out of the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Inde- pendants, or Baptifts $ or whether each of us one out of each : This I leave to you. And (inct you are of late for diflinguiJJiing the Mo-derate from the more Rigid, if your Cafe be good, I hope you cannot but think there is four Moderate Men amongst them all, who ha-ve both Reafon and Sence to judge of Matter, of I acl. Fr. Bugg. This he refufed, which /hewed he either doubtftd his Cafe, or that he had fuch Incha- rity, as not to think there were four mode- rate, wife, and juft Men in all the four Socie- ties ; if the laft, what fignifie his pretended diftinguifhing ? If the firft, why does he fo bitterly complain, that I wrong them iti B % Charge, 6 Qnahgriftn Withering, Charge, Citation, and Obfervation ? But his word [any'] gave me my choice * lb when he refufed the Terms abovefaid, I made him a (econd Propoial, viz,, to prove my Charge exhibited, alfo my Sheet to the Parliament, and if I have afTerted any thing falfely, to retrad it under my Hand, before fix Mem- bers of Parliament, each of us tochufe three J upon condition that you will do the fame. Sent and fubfcribed in the prefence of Samuel Grave, Samuel Place, Henry Symons, John Fenn t Daniel Hajfitl, by me Fra. Bugg. This he alio refufed,either judging we could not find each of us three moderate Men in the Houfe of Commons, or elfe he went from his words, to leave it to any fix, ten, or twelve moderate Men of Common Sence and Hone- fty : Nay, that is not all, but he ftill nfufes to abide by Burroughs Proportion above re- cited : But that he might not have a ftarting- hole, I lent him a third Offer, viz. c G. W. I was minded to except againft € Quakers, as in my firft and fecond Propofal c I did, becaufe 1 know they cannot be im- c partial between us ; but becaufe I perceive * you cannot otherwife be prevailed withal, I c will renew my Offer, wss. do you chufe * three Men where you pleafe in the King's * Dominion, and I will chufe three ; and I € ofter to prove my Charge on condition, that « you but Chrijlianity Reviving, j c you will engage under your Hand, that c what the Quakers hold you will either juftifie € by Scripture, or retrad under your Hand, as f alfo what your felf have wrote ; And 1 do f hereby engage the like, &c. Fra. Bugg. This he alfb refilled to abide by, upon the account of a retradation ; tho Ed. £. in the name of the Quakers, offered not only to re- trad:, but alfo to renounce all their Religiog, and to confefs to all the World under his Hands, that they have been deceived, &c. as at large in his Epiftle above-mentioned : Bus ftill I purfued him, and lent him a fourth Offer, w&. Feb. 9th. 1693. c G. W. yours receiv'd, and return you the f Terms upon which I offered to debate the ' Controverfie, according to Agreement in c other Circumftances ; I ask no more than I * give, which is equal : I am not confcious to c myfelf of being guilty of what you either r have or now do charge me with, and that c encourages me to engage a retradation, if * need be : If you think yourfelf clear of my c Charge, and that the Quakers hold no fuch c Errors as I lay t& their charge, what make c you fo timerpus of engaging under your € Hands to retrad, if proved upon you ? If * you think a retradation will marr the beau-? I ty of your pretence to write and fpeak by' B 4 • «n# 8 QnaJ^rifm Withering^ € and from an Infallible Spirit, remember ' that Hungate the Jefiiite, who profeffed In-' f fallibility almoft equal with the Quakers, did * not refufe to fubfcribe when he difputed * with Biftiop Brambal. Read the Life of the * JaidJ&ihop. Befide, you lee E. B. allowed 9 the point : Nay, moreover it was^T. Fern's ' way with the Papilfc ; fee his Seafonable Ca- € veat i &c,f. 3 j. To conclude, (fays W. P.) 'if we would not receive a Thief until he has ' repented, let the Papifts firft recant of their * voluminous Errors, not known in Scripture, 'nar ever heard of for Three hundred years 'together after Chrift, &c. Yet if you will € leave the Matter to difinterefted perfbns,ac- ' cording to the latitude of your Oner in your * printed Sheet, viz. to any Moderate Men of * Sense and Comrycn Hone fj , &c. I will require '.no rejra&ation, but leave it to tfiem, whe- * ther I have wronged you in Charge, Cita- c tiori, or Obfervation. And as to the twelve ' WitneiTes, for whom you make fuch a Complaint, if upon examination I do not * prove them guilty of Perjury, on your own * Propofitipns to Authority, I will refrad my ' Proceedings againft them ; but if I do provs ' it, then you fhall engage, that tliey fliall re- r tra£t under their Hands, always excepting 'againft the faid twelve Falfe-witnefTes, being * prefent at the Debate, unlefs it be when the * four particulars in their Certificate be under * examination \ or when any Matter depend- ' ing thereon be under conlideration. Era. Bugg- But but ChriJUanity Kwiving. 9 But all would not do ; I could not get Sheba, the Son of Bichri, that Man of Belial, 2 Sam. 20. to come out on equal Terms : Neither will their People, like the wife Wo- men in Abel, bring him out ; and thereupon I mall leave it to the World, whether I have not performed what I promifed in my Sheet; and whether G. W. have not muffled and eva- ded a fair Debate, 1/?, in refilling to leave the Matter to any moderate Men, as he pro- mifed in print ; 2. And when debated before his Friends, who are Parties in the Errors, and cannot give it againft him, refute to fubfcribe a Retractation, according to the ©ffer of their great Prophet Edw> Burroughs, and W. P. But before I proceed to prove my Charge, I would premife fome few things, viz* Firft, The Quakers Vina 1 . &c. f . I. c It's not c unknown unto you (the Parliament) that f we are Diffenters from the Churcli of En- c gland, and as fucb we enjoy our Liberty un- r der you; and confequently we ought not € to be reputed Criminal for being fuch, &c» I grant, that barely for being fuch, you ought not to be reputed criminal : But if un- der that notion you take Liberty not only to maintain and defend fiich Errors, as tend to overthrow the Chriftian Faith, but alfo print, expofe and fpread your erronious Books all over England and Wales, and beyond the Seas, unlicens'd to the Scandal of Religion ^ and not content therewith neither, but to indid me for printing and expofing unlicens'd: •This to Qita^erifm Withering, This feems criminal, at leaft very bold : For if you would not be reputed Criminal , becaufe your Opinion is for the prefent indulg'd, for- getting perhaps that you ftand but upon your good Behaviour, why Ihould you repute fiich as fee your Errors, and forfake you, (and con- form themfelvestotheEftablifh'd Religion, as that which is more true and orthodox) Cri- minaly calling me a Self- condemn d Apoftate ? Is not this throwing Dirt in the Face of the Go- vernment, rendering their Religion fo falfe and erroneous, as that whoever forfake, and conform to the EftablinYd Religion, muft therefore be S elf- condemn d Apoftate s ? Do you think this may not affect your Superiors, fo as to confider of your bold Adventures, &c. Again, c That fya. Bugg himfelf did not c account us Criminal for our Principles two * years after he left us, and joyned himfelf to c the Church of 'England, &c. For which he quotes my Book, The Quakers detected, and their Errors confuted. To which I anfwer, The very Title fhews the contrary : And in the Book I charge them With Falfe DaEtrin, Erroneous Principles $ their Teachers Cruel Tatkmafters^ Verfecutors, and Ty* rants ; and that part of their Dodrin, which was true, (as I ftill believe fome little of what they teach is true) ferved only as a Decoy to catch fimple Souls by ; charging their Minifters with Lyes, grofi Forgery, and fcandalous De- famations, Babel's Builders, Pharafaical Hypo- crites : See ^.4, j a i8, 21. And now let the Wife but Chrifiianity Reviving. 1 1 Wife in Heart judge, whether I did not ac- count the Quakers criminal in 1686. With what face then can thi^ grofs Perverter G. W. fay I did not account them criminal in 1686. unlefs to be guilty of theforementioned be not criminal ? As by the Quakers per fitting therein, they mould not account it : How- ever I did then, and do now, account them great Criminals,both in Dodrrin and Pra&ice, and for leaving them am not condemned ; but blefs the Day that ever I forfook fuch an Here fie as I deem them to hold, defend, and I fear wilfully maintain. The Matters in that Book treated on I methodiz d under thefe three general Heads,* viz,. The firft point under Consideration was, How- 1 came to be a Member of their Society : The fecond, How 1 came, to fee their Errors and leave them : The third, How I came perfwaded and fat u fie d in going to the Vublick. In the firft I did fet forth what I thought of them in 58, and 60. and what they preached, and how innocent they appeared : G. W. in Norwich- Cattle feemed as demure as the beft ; yet in that Book I fet forth, as I then believed that all was but a Decoy or Cheat, to draw Difciple s after them ; and if 1 was cheated and mista- ken in them, lb was Hugh Latimore y that lear- ned Prelate, in the fmooth Carriage of the Pa- pifts, and their Infallible Delufions, who (aid, c I am ignorant of things which I truft her^af- ? ter to know, &c. Read Fox's Atls and Mo- numsntSt&c. p. 410, 467, 468, 1325, 1488. where 1 2 Qnakgrifm Withering^ where Bifhop Latimer, Bifhop Cranmer, M. Lu- ther, Dr. Barns, and other pious fincere Chri- stians, have not been too good n«r too holy to acknowledge themfelves miftaken, upon convi&ion, though by your Do&rin render cl Apoftates,in that they once thought the Popijh Do&rine true, &c. Nay, your Incharity ren- ders many of your own People Apoftates,who before they were deluded by your black Art of calling the Scripture Death, Duft, and Ser- pent s-meat, the Ordinances an Infiitution of the Whore of Rome, the publick Minifters Witches, Devils, Gormandising Priefts, &c. thought the Do&rine of the Church of England, found and orthodox : But fince they are turn'd to the Herefie of Quakerifm, G. W. accounts them Saints, Lambs, Prophets, and what not i But as thefe Weights are counterfeit^ I pur- pole to try them by the Touchftone of the Scripture, which cannot lye. And I refer to my Book, New-Rome unmasttd, Sec. contai- ning more than ioo Pages in Quarto, divided into twelve Chapters, which fliew at large, that forfaking the Quakers is no Apoftacy from the Articles of the Chriftian Faith, &c. Ibid by Mr. Dunton at the Raven in the Poul- try, and Mr. Guillam Bookfeller in Bifhopjgate- Hreet. Concluding my Introduction with St. Augujline^ Err are pojfum hareticus ejje non pojjum. The but Chrifi Unity Reviving. 1 3 1 __ . _ _ — -1 — The First Charge Againft the That they Deny Jefus of Nazareth, who was lorn of the Blejjed Virgin Mary, to be Chrifi, and the Efficient Caufe of Mans Salvation, The A a gum e nt. TH E Method propofed to prove the re- cited Charge, is, ift. A brief Citation of Scriptures proving^that Jefus is the Chrift of God, and Efficient Caufe of Man's Salva- tion, from the Teftimony of G O D, Angels, and Men. zdly. A Recital Qut of the Qua- kers Books, wrote by their moft approved Authors, alledging the contrary, fhewing them thereby to be of a different Faith from the Prophets, Apoftles, Saints, and Blefled Martyrs, and all true Chriftians to this day. %Hly* That Geo. Fox, the firft Founder of Qua- kmfm y Anno i6jo. have fince affumed to himfelf thole divine Attributes due only to Chrift, and thereby hath overthrown the Faith 1 4, Qmh^tifm Withering, faith of Ibme. tybly. That his Difciples and Followers, and fuch of greateft note amongft them, hath faid Amen to his Blafphemies, by their frequent Adorations of him, as the Star, the Branchy the Son of Right eoufnefs^&c. iff. Scripture Texts proving Jefus to he Chritt. John r. 14. And the word was madeflejh, and dwelt amongft us : (and we beheld his glorj, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. Luke 1. 26. And in the Jixtb month the Angel Gabriel was fent from God unto a city of GaWiizt, named Nazareth : and the An- gel /aid unto her, Fear not Mary, for thou haft found favour with God: and behold, thou Jhalt conceive in thy womb^ and bring forth a fon, and jhalt call bis name Jefus. 2. 10, II. And the Angel laid unto them, Fear not \ for behold, I bring unto you good ty dings of great joy, which jhall be unto all people * for unto you is born this day, in the city of 'David,* Saviour, Chrifi the Lord. Mark 9.7. Matt. 1 7. $• . While heyetfpake>behold a bright cloud overjliadowed them : and behold a voice out of the cloud, which faid,This is my beloved fon, in whom I am well pleafed, hear him. . Matt. 26. 67. Then did they ffit in his face, and buffeted him, and others Jmote him with the palms of their hands. 27. 58. Then there were two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, another on the left. Ver* 5 o» J fa*, when he had cried again with a hnivoke yielded up tbegboft* 28.6: He u ( but Chrifiiamty Reviving. 1 5 is not hire, for he is rifen, as he faid , Come fee the place where the Lord lay. A&s i. 9, io,i i« While they beheld ', he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their fight. And while they looked ft edfafily towards Heaven, as he went up> behold two men (landing by them in white apparel, which alfofaidy Te men 0/Gallilee, why fi and ye gating up into Heaven ? This fame Jefus which is taken up from you into Heaven [ then not in them,in the Quakers fence ; for as he faid with reference to hisPerfon, Matt. 26. 11. Me ye have not always^} Jhallfo come in like manner as ye have feen him go into Heaven. A&s y. 30,31. The God of our fathers raifed up Jefus, whom ye flew, and hanged on a Tree, him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Ifrael, and for' givenefs of fins. A#S 2. 36. Therefore let all the houfe of Ifrael know affuredly, that God hath made the fame Jefus, whom ye have crucified,both Lord and Chrifi. Hfcb. f . 9. And being made perfecl, he became the Author of eternal falv at ion to all them that obey him. 12.2. Looking unto\Jefus the author andfinifher of our faith, who for the joy that was fet before him endured the crofs, de- fpifing the flame, and is fet down at the right hand of the throne ofGoH. Rom. 8. 34. It is Chrifi that diedj yea rather, that is rifen again y who is at the right hand of God, who alfo maketh inter* cejfion for us. A£b 7. 3 5 . But he being full of the Holy Ghofb, looked up fiedfafily into Heaven, and faw the glory of God and Jeius ftanding on the right hand of God. Ver. J 6. And faid, Behold, Ifet 1 6 Qiiakgrifttt Withering^ I fee the Heavens opened, and tbefon ofmanftan- ding on the right band of God. A&s 10. 38. to 44. How God anointed Jefus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghofty and with power, whs went about doing good —And we are witnejfes of all things which 7>e did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerufe- lem. Whom ye flew and hanged on a tree, him God raifed up the third day, and fljewed him open' ly y Not to all the people , but to witnejfes cho fen be- fore of God, even to us, who did eat and drink 'With him after he rofe from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to teftifie, that it is he which was ordained* of God to he judge of the quick and dead. To him give all the Frophets witnefs, that through his name wbo- foever believeth in him, Jhall receive remijjion tffins. Read 1 Cor. if. 15*. zJly. The Quakers teach the contrary. A Question to Profejfors, p. jj". *Now the * Scriptures do exprefly diftinguifli between c Chrift and the Garment which he wore ; r between him that came, and the body in f which he came $ between the Subftance c which was veiled, and the Veil which vei- c led it. Lo, 1 come, a body haft thou prepared me. ' There was plainly he,and the Body in which * he came 5 there was the outward Veflel,and c the inward Life: This we certainly know, c and can never call the Bodily Garment c Chrifi, but that which appeared and dwelt J in the Body. but Cbrijiianity Reviving. 1 7 ©bferve how flatly they contradict the holy Scripture Teftimony, and how they would divide the Humanity from the Godhead; which is, in plain terms, a plain denyal of Chrjft ; for if they can never call him that was born of the Virgin Mary Chrift, whom the Jews fpit upon, fm©te with the palms of their Hands, nailed to the Crofe, hanged on a Tree, and at laft crucified him ; I fay, if they can never call him Chrift, but a Veil, a Garment y a Figure, &c. they can never own him to be Chrift, and confequently deny him to be Chrift ; and not only fo, but acquit the Jews, and their drudge Judas of the Sin of murthering the Lord of Life and Glory ; for when they laid hold of him, fmote him, buf- feted him, crowned him with Thorns, fcour- ged him, nailed his tender Hands and Feet to the Croft, pierced his Side, out of which came Water and Blood ; they all this while, by the Quaker's DoBrine, did not lay hold up- on nor touch Chrift, and conlequently ought not to be charged with crucifying the Lord of Life and Glory ; only, it's true, they took hold of a Garment, a Veil, &c. which they can never call Chrift. Thus have they made the Apoftles Falfe Witneffes, acquitted Judw, and clear cl the hard hearted unbelieving Jews of all their Barbarities inhumanly inflicted on theBleftedJefus. A Queft. &c. p. 27. c Is not the Sub/hnce, € the Life, called Chrift, where-ever it is • found ? Doth not the Name [ Chrift 1 be- G c long 1 8 Qna\efifm Withering, ' long to the whole Body, and to every Mem- 6 ber in the Body,as well as to the Head* &c ? Obferve how Matt. 24. 24. is fulfilled by their Do&rine ; every believing Quaker may be called Chrilt as well as he that differed Death upon the Croft • Oh, dreadful Blaf- phemy ! And to confirm it, he tells you about ten lines after, viz* That the Name is not given to the VejJ'el, &c. O Impudence itfelf ! did not the Angel fay, That unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Chrift the Lord ? Luke 2. 1 1 . & v. 2 8. Simon took him in his arms* and blejjed God, and faidy Lord, now let t eft thou thy fervant depart inpeace 3 according to thy word j for mine eyes havefeen thy falvation, &c. So that to fay the Name Chrift belongs to every Believer,as well as to him, is Blafphemy • for the Apoftle to the Colojfians gives the Name not only to the Godhead in. him, but to him in whom it dwelt, which they contemptuoufly term the Garment, Col 2. 9. The Chriftian Quaker > and his Divine Teft,StC. part 1. p. 107. c To conclude. We, though this ' general Vidory was obtained, and holy Pri- € vileges therewith, and that the Holy Body 'was not inftrumentally without a fhare * thereof; yet that the efficient and chiefeft c caufe was the Light and Life. — P. 1 1 1. So ' that thus far we can approach the honefter c fort of Profeffors of Religion, &c» Ob- but Chrijlianity Kev'wing. lp Oblerve how" far the Quaker's Approach to the Chnitians amount to: The Chriftians believe, that he who was born of the Virgin Mary, who was (pic upon, buffeted, fmote with the palms of their Hands, dyed, roie again, and aicended into Heaven, in the light of the GaUikans, and now fits at the right hand of God, according to the recited Scriptures ; I fay, they believe the lame Jelus to be the Chrift of God ; and that he is both the effi- cient and chief caufe of Man's Salvation : Afts^ io, 12. By the name of Jefus of Naza- reth, whom ye have crucified, whom God raijed from the dead, even by him doth this man ft and here before you whole. Neither is there falvation in any other, for there is none other name given under Heaven among men, whereby we muft be faved, Sec. So that the Profefior's Faith and Hopes of Salvation are in the crucified Jefus, which you call the Holy Body. Indeed,you do approach to them a little, in calling his Body Holy, and allowing him to have Some fhare in the Salvation of Mankind inftrumen- tally •> but the chief and efficient caule is in the light which you have in your felves, and which was in the Jews and Gentiles before the Incarnation of our Bleffed Lord and Sa- viour ; which if that had been fufficient, what need was there for Chrift's coming, lince he is but inftrumentally a Saviour? For lb you allow good Men to be, as I lhall fliew anon : So that your Approach to the Chri- ftians is very finally even but a few fteps - y for C 2 the *o Qnal^rifm Withering, the unbelieving Jews thought him to be a good Man, viz, Elias y Jeremias, or one of the, old Prophets ; but inftead of prefling on, the Author turns himfelfroand to his old Friends the Quakers y and tell them his Meaning by tl'i is iudden and unufual Approach. P. io2. c So that the Invifible Life was the € Root and Fountain of all, which is fbme- r times afcribed in Scripture to the Body, by ( that common figure or way of fpeaking £ amongft Men, the thing containing which^ ' is the Body for the thing contained, which was the Life, &c. Obferve, 1 always underftood, that when we call a Houfe that is made of Lime and Stone a Church, that it was a figurative way of (peaking the thing containing for the thing contained $ but I never knew this diftiriction touching our BlefTed Saviour made by any others than the Quakers ; and their chief Rea- (on is, That they having the fame Light,Life and Spirit in their Bodies, as was in his Body, they would have every Man a Saviour, every •Man a Chi ift : For, as above, they fay, the Name ofChrift belongs ■ to every Member of the Body, as well as the Head: KnA where ever they (hake ail Approach to the true Profeifors of Ghviitianity, 'tis only for a Becoy : For as ahove obferved, they can never call the Bo- cliiy Garment Chrifi, meaning him that was bjrn of the Virgin, but a Garment 3 a V&+ a Figure, an infhumental Catfe of Salvation , but not the efficient \ the thing containing for ano* but Chrijliamljp Reviving, 3 t another, viz,, for the thing contained : For to call him that was born of the Virgin, who liiffered Death on the Oofs, Died , Role again, and afcended ; this is but a metapho- rical Speech, the thing containing for the thing contained. Thus have the^ robbed the Blerfed Jefus of one of his emanent Attri- butes, wZm of being the efficient Caufe of Mans Salvation. Thus do they dance the Rounds, fbmetimes approaching to the Chri- ftian Profeflbrs ; as if they were in good earned : but by and by, with a fu.iden turn they glide to their Brethren, and infinuate by conjequence, That him that was born of the Virgin, he is no otherwife a Saviour [let the Epifcopalians , Presbiterians, Indepen- dents and Baptifb fay what they will to the contrary] than other good Men are, &c. P. ro2, 103. c I dare not attribute to an Ex- ternal prepared Being,(TW)which is the na- tural and proper Work of the Divine Light : But certainly, if fbme Men in Scripture are entituled Saviours, becaufe of their Contribution, of their Trials, Travels and Labours towards the Salvation of Mankind; of much more right is .that Honour alcri- bed to him, who had the Spirit without meafure, &c. Obferve, the be<\ Approach I take notice of, is, That they dp fecmingly allow him to' have the Spirit without meamre ; but I can- not call it otherwife than feeding, ftnce 'tis but about eight Lines after, where fpeaking of G $ Salva- 72 Qnakgrifm Withering, Salvation, he fays, And to the Holy Manhood not any otherwife tkanlnfirumentaUy ; which in the Paragraph above recited, he there allows to good and holy Men, and that as a merito- rious Rewarc] too, viz,. Becaufe of the Conti i- bution of their Trials,Travels,and Labours to- wards the Salvation of Mankind.So that by the Quakers Do&rine, good Men are Inftrumen- tally Saviours : And Chrift himfelf is no more but Inftrumentally a Saviour. The Firft I grant, as they are Servants toChrifr, and by his hand of Providence made ufe of towards the Converfion of others. TheLaft I deny, as an Heretical Dodrine, which tends to rob Chrift of one of his chiefeft Jewels; as the next Paflage will demonftrate. P 129. ' That nevertheiefs not to theBo- r dy, but Holy Light of Life therein is chief- '• ly to be afcribed the Salvation ; and to the € Body, however excellent, but Inftrumen- ' tally. Obferve, bow with one Shoulder they bear down the Blefled Jefus, as only a Body, inftrumentally ferviceable., contrary to the Teftimony of St. Luke, and the infpired Apo- ftles and Holy Prophets, who foretold of the coming of the Juft one, And fince 'tis a great and precious Priviledge, that we have trie Holy Scriptures in a known Tongue, that thereby we may have recourfe thereunto, to redifie our Miftakes, and help our Judg- ments, and prove the Articles of our Chrifti- an Faith : So am I willing to prove my Charge but Chrift ianity Reviving. 23 Charge againft the Quakers from plain mat- ter of Fa<5, out of their own Books, writ by the moft Learned amongft them ; and by the Coherence of their Doctrine, confuted by Scripture, Reafon, and Authority, /hall this Controverfie be decided. For if the good Deed of the Woman, Martb.26.1j. done to Chrift againft his Burials /hall be told of her fo long as the Gofpel is preached, fure- ly fo long as the Gofpel is preached /hall there be War made againft fuch falie Teach- ers, as /hall thus bring in damnable Herefies, denying the Lord Jefus Chrift to be a Corn- pleat Saviour, &c But once more pray hear him. P. 97, 98. c The Serpent is a Spirit : Now c no thing can bruife the Head of the Serpent, € . but lomething that is Spiritual, as the Ser- c pent is. But if that Body of Chrift were c the Seed, then could he not bruife the Ser- c pents Head in all , becaufe the Body of '* Chrift is not fo much as in any one ; and c confequently, the Seed of the Promife is an c Holy Principle of Light and Life, that be- c ing received into the Heart, bruifgth the ' Serpents Head. And becaufe the Seed € which cannor he thar Body is Chrift, as teftihe \ the Scriptures, the Seed is one, and that Seed 'is Chrift, &c. And thus have* I traced him in his divers. Turnings and manifold Approaches; fome-. times to the Profeftors, and back again to the Quakers, until at laft you fee he denies C x the Q 4 Qjtafyriftn Withering, the Body which was born of the Virgin, to be Chrift: And the reafon he gives, is, Becaufe he is not perfonafly in every Man, and fo no way capable to conquer the Ser- pent in them ; and therefore not the Chrift : But if they were humble, and would forfake their Errours , and by Faith lay hold of Ghrift, who is the Seed of the Promife, Gen. $ 14. confefling their Sins, and begging Par- don for (Shrifts fake, let them not doubt but the Head of the Serpent in them (hall be bruifed. But if they thus contemn theBlefied Jefus, who was born of the Virgin, &c. one calling him a Garment, which they can ne- ver call Chrift 5 another, becaufe he is not perfcnally in every \jan,he cannot be Chrifr ; and by and by the Name Cbrifi belongs to every Member, as well as to the Head; for that they have Light, Life and Spirit in them, as Chrift had : another, that Chrift is not a Com pleat Saviour, othefwife than inftrumen- tally \ nor no otherwife to be called Chrift, than metaphorically, or by that common Figure or way of fpeaking, viz,, the thing containing for the thing contained : I lay, fo longas they continue in their Unbelief, its no marvel they complain fo much of the Ser- pent's having Dominion in them. The Sandy Foundation fliaktn.&c. ?. 2 1 . l The 'Juftice offended being Infinite, his Satisfa- f Crowned : — He that overcometh, eateth c of the Hidden Manna : He that overco- 1 meth fliall inherit all things. • He that * hath an Ear to hear let him hear ; and bleffed •8 Qnahgrifm Wither ing y c blefTed is he that reads, and doth underftatxf c what he reads. G. F. Saul'j Errand to Damafcus, p. j. e The Old c Man cannot endure to hear the New Man c fpeak, which is Chrift, and Chrift is the c Way ; and if Chrift be in you, muftnothe * fay, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life ? c P. 8. 4 And he that hath the lame Spirit 'that raifed upjefus Chrift from the Dead is c equal with God. G. F. The Second Charge agarnft the Their Books are blafphernous, and their Pra- ctice Idolatrous^ &c. which is proved in the foregoing and following* to the confu- tation ofG. W. and his falfe Witneffes, who deny thefe Appellations^ &c, t This is only to go amongst Friends, * "I** Hon, O North of England I who art c 1 counted as delblate and barren, and ' reckoned the lead of the Nations, yet out * of thee did the Branch fpring and Star arife, 'which gives light to all the Regions round 4 about » in thee the Son of Righteoufnefs \ ' a P- but Cbrifiianity Reviving, tp appeared with Wounding and with Hea- 1 ling, &c. The next is John Blackling's Certificate, fee Part V. Chrift. Qvafc. diftmguffid, &c. p. 77. c That G. Fox is bleffed with Honour above r many Brethren ; and, That Thoulands will /ftand by him in a Heavenly Record: — ! — That hjs Life reigns, and is fpotlefe, I innocent, and frill retains his Integrity, c whole Eternal Honour and Bleffed Renown r (hall remaia ; yea, his prefence, and the c dropping of his tender words in the Lord's f Love, was my Soul's Nourifhment. The Quakers Challenge, p. 6. of G. Fox thus in brief: c A Prophet indeed. It was f (aid^of ChrifT, he was in the World, and the f World was made b/ him, and the World kncii) € him not : So it may be faid of this true Pro- *phet, whom Johniaid he was not ; but thou t fhalt feel this Prophet one day as heavy a* ' a Milftone upon thee ; and though the f World knew him not, yet he is known. Sol. Eccles. Jof Coale'j Letter to G. Fox, out of the Bai ba» does, thus in brief: » / T"VEar G.F0x,who art the Father of ninny f JL-/ Nations, whole Life has reached thro' ' us thy Children, even to the lfles afar ott\ c to the begetting many again to a live.y c hope, for which Generations to cpme ihSil 1 call thee bleffed, whole Being and Habiu- go QnaJ^rifm Withering^ c don is in the power of the Higheft, in which 'tbou rules and governs in Righteoufnefi, f and thy Kingdom is eftablifhed in Peace, 1 and the Encreafe thereof is without end. Jof. Coale. Another from John Audland to G. F. out of the Weft of England. c T*VEar and precious one, in whom my c L-J Life is bound up, and my Strength in c thee (lands ; fay thy Breathings I am nou- c rifhed ; by thee my Strength is renewed ; i Blefled art thou for evermore, and bleffed * are all that enjoy thee : Life and Strength * comes from thee holy one; — daily do I * find thy prefence with me, which doth ex- 9 ceedingly preferve me, for I cannot reign, c but in thy prefence and power ; pray for * me, that I may ftand in thy Dread for ever- ' more. I am thine begotten, and nou- *riilied by thee; and in thy Power am I c preferved : Glory unto thee, Holy One, for c ever. John Audknd. Brief ' Ohfer vat ions upon the Two lafl T Articular s. i. G. Fox's affuming Divine Attributes to himfelf, f/fc. Firfiy He tells you,he wrote from the Mouth of God himfelf, ftands naked, clo- thed only with Righteoulhefi ; which was prophefied and fulfilled, Secondly, That he is but Cbriftianity Reviving. 3 1 is the light of the Worlds by whom it was made Owe, with the Truth in every Man. Thirdly, That he was lb covered, as that nei- ther himfelf nor his Name was known in the World, had a new Name, plac'd in his Throne, was Crowned, inherited all things, Chrift in him might fay, 1 am the way, the truth, and the life, alluding to John 14. 6. And Fourthly, He that had the fame Spirit which railed Jefus, was equal with God : Which Spirit he pretended to have. 2, How Fox s Difcipies ecchoed back Ado- rations, which $j|fwered as Face anfwers Face in a Glals ; for he could not magnifie him- felt, but his Profelytes were ready to cry Ho- Janna : Firft, Oh thou North of England, de- legate the ieaft of the Nations barren,^, yet out of thee did the Branch fpring, the Star arife, the Son of Righteoulhefi appear, &c. Alluding to Micah j. 2. Numb. 24. 17. MaL 4. 2. Zech 3.8. And Secondly, That his Life reigned and was fpotlefs, his eternal Honour, and bleiTed Renown,c^c. Thirdly, A Prophet indeed compared to Chrift, as not known in the World, though made by him. Fourthly, Precious George, the Father of Nations, whole Kingdom is eftablifhed in Peace,theEncreafe ' c thereof without end: Alluding to ijk.9.6,7. And Fifthly, That they received Life and Strength from him, preferred by him, could not reign but in his power, begotten and nourifhed by him, &c . Upon the whole matter, as there were never greater Blafphemiesfpake by Man than 3 2 OHafyrif/n Withering^ than by Fox, fo never greater Adorations gi- ven to (uch a Se£t-maiter. And yet G. TV. and W. P. in their Book Judar and the Jews, p. 44. Serious Search, &c. p. 5-8. Judgment Fix- ed, &c> p. 19, 26. Innocency agamfi Envy, &c. p. 1 8. have Juftified or Excufed every Paf- fage,except JohnAudlands Letter,which when charged therewith by the Athenian Mercury^ June 1 1. 1692. GJV. did deny it to be ofJ.A's writing. But we have the Original Letter, and able to make it appear by cornering Hands, to be his: Nor did G. F. deny it in his Life-time, albeit an Abftrad thereofwas Prin- ted and Reprinted, &c. The Third Charge againft the That they deny the Scriptures, by J pea king contemptuoufly of them : calling them, Death, Duft, Serpent's Meat, &c. and that to ¥ reach out of them is Conjura- tion. The Argument. THis is one of their Errors 1 charged on the Quakers in my Book, New Rome un- mask d, Sec Epift. Cr.6. and 'p. 78. This GW. procured Twelve Witneffes, to teftirle in the Holy Fear of God, and on the behalf of the but Chriftianity Reviving. g 3 the Quakers, That they never lb believed, fo (aid, nor fo affirmed : Which was fiich a no- torious Lye ; and calling God to Record, I took it to amount to an Oath on their own Propofalsto Authority : And not knowing a better way to manifeft them, I ere&ed a Mock-Pillory, and Tried chem, and found them guilty on their own Premifes. But the main matter now before me is* To prove the Truth in that particular, both in the cited Book May Rome, &c. and the Sheet delivered to the Parliament : And in order to it I mail flrft recite their contemptuous Expreffions of the Holy Scripture ; and then confute their' Arguments, which they bring to lalve their Errour. And laflly ihew, That they extol their own Writings above the Scriptures, viz* Their Contempt of the Holy Scriptures. News coming up out of the North , &C p. 14. c And your Original is Carnal , Hebrew , c Greek; and Latin ; and your Word is Car- ' nal, the Letter $ and the Light is Carnal, c the Letter ; and your Baptifm is Carnal. k • And their Communion is Carnal, a lit- c tie Biead and Wine. — So duft is the Ser- r pents Meat ; their Original is but Duftj c which is but the Letter, which is Death. f - — So the Serpent feeds upon Duft. — ,And ' their Gofpel is Duft, Matthew, Murk 3 Luke, c and John, which is the Letter, &c, D Saufr 3 4 Qnahfirifm Withering^ Saul** Errand to Damafcus, &c. p. 7. c All c that do itudy to raife a Living thing out of ' a Dead j to raife the Spirit out of the Letter, c are Conjurers, and draw Points and Rea- 'fcns. ►-They are Conjurers and Divi- c ners, and their Teaching is from Conjura- c tion, which is not fpoken from the Mouth ( of the Lord. The Letter of the Scrip- 4 cure is carnal, and killeth, &c. G. F. DavidV Enemies diicovered, &c. p.7. c And c thele (t. e. Quakers) do not call the Letter c the Rule ; and the Four Books., Matthew, c Marky Luke and John, the New Teftament * or Goipel, as thou, (i. e. the Publick Mi- f nifter) and thy Generation do, thy Mini- e itry is in the Letter, which killeth. G. Whitehead and Ch. A. Truth's' Defence, Sec. p. 2. 104. c You might c as well have condemned the Scriptures to * the Fire, as our Books and Papers : For our * giving forth Papers and Printed Books, it is c from the immediate, eternal Spirit of God. Burroughs Works, &c. p. 91. * "And herein ( you have been bewitched from the Obedt- * 1 ence of the Truth within, to obey the Let- f ter without. P, 47. That is no Command c from God to me, what he commands to an- c other : Neither did any of the Saints which c we read of in Scripture, act by the Com- c mand which was to another, not having the c Command to themfelves. The Quakers Refuge fixed upon, &c. p. 17. c Whether the firft Pen-man of the Scrip- c aires but Chriflianity Reviving. ^ * tures was Mofes or Hermes ; or whether f both thefe, or not one ; or whecher there c are not many Words contained in the Scrip- c tures, which were not fpoken by the Infpi- f ration of the Holy Spirit: Whether fome c Words were not fpoken by the Grand Im- c poftor ; fome by wicked Men ; fome by f wile Men ill applied; fome by good Men 1 ill expreffed ; fome by Falfe Prophets, and 1 yet true ; fome by True Prophet?, and ye* 'falfe, &c. Several Petitions avfwered y &C. p. jo. 'And c whereas we are moved to write abroad, f /hewing forth your Errors, that if ever you c own the Prophets, Chrift, and the Apoftles c (Writings,) ye will own them which are c given forth by the fame Power and Spirit, A Brief Difc every of a three fold Efiate, &c. p. 7. ' The Prieits of the World are Conju- c rers, raifing dead Dodrines, dead Reafons, c dead Ufes, dead Motives, dead Tryals out * of the Letter , which is Death ; raifing c Death out of Death. Notable Conjurers ! fc P. 9. Babylon s Merchants, felling Beaftly c Wares. The Letter, which is Duft € and Death. Olfervations thereupon. ifi, Obferve, that they call the Holy Scri- pture Death, Duft, and Serpents-meat: If they objed, they mean the Letter abftradly from D 2 the 3 6 Qptah^rifm Withering^ the Spirit, that s but one of G. W\ Juggles ; fee their Paper againft J. P. Aug. ro. 1670. 'viz,. ' Whereas J. P. did bring to the Ex- ( change feveral Books and Writings, and 'amongft others the Holy Scriptures, &c. Surely he could not burn the Holy Spirit that gave them forth, as they mpir wi.kedly fiiggefred he would have burnt the £ib:e. It feems they can call the Bible the HJj Sen- ftures when for a wicked fefign, and Duft, and Death, and Serpents Meat, when they {peak their Judgment clearly, idly. That they are Conjurers that preach out of them : Surely when they preach oat of them, they do not prea h the Letter abstractly from the Holy Doctrine and Bleffed Pre.epts therein contained.but iorue part of thole holy Truths therein contained 5 and yet this preaching is by their Doctrine Conjuration and Witch- craft, &c. idly, You may perceive that G. IV . and the Quakers do not call the four Books of Matthew, Mark, Luh.e, and John, either the NewTeftarnent of JeDsChrifr.or the Goipel ; and why ? His Brother Fox lays 'tis Dull, Death, and Serpents-Meat: Yet to ferve another turn, Ellwood writing againft W. R. in his Antidote, p.S r, 82. calls the Wri- tings of the Evangeiiits, The New Teftamenty Scriptures of Truth, &c. Oh the Deceit and Self-contradiction of theie ifoW-Builders. ybly, You may fee they bring their own Moniencein competition with "the holy Scri- pture and New Teitament : Nay, I fliall prove but Chi ijiiamty Reviving. 37 prove by their Practice, that they prefer their own Pamphlets before the Scripture, and that beyond all their GloiTes to the con- trary. Sthtyy That fuch as obey the Scri- ptures are bewitched from the Truth : And therefore , fay they, That. is no Command from God to me, what he commanded the Saints of old, recorded in Scripture ; for, alas ! what is the Scripture but a little Duft, Death, carnal Letter, Husk, Beaftly Ware; and they that preach out of it Conjurers, no- table Conjurers, Babylon's Merchants, yea, Witches, Devils, Gormandizing Priefte, &c ? 6r£/y,They insinuate by way of Query, That 'tis doubtful whether Mofes or Hzrmes was the firft Pen-man of Holy Writ ; or whether ei- ther or neither $ and fo confound the Scri- ptures, as to overthrow its Divine Authori- ty, fuggefting that what is true the Falle- Prophets wrote, and what is falfe the True- Prophets wrote, and what is ill expreffedand ill applied Wile and Good Men wrote, and by a Natural Invertion all the reft by Wicked Men, and the Grand Impoftor. And I think they, by this time, have made room for the Atheifts and Papiits. This, I muft confefs, is fuch a cunning Stratagem of Satan and his Inftruments, as the boldeft Jeluic that ever I read of never attempted the like. And for more of it, I refer to New Rome unmask' *d y &c. p. 2;. And by this time I hope G. #"s WitnefTes are convicted lufficiently, and for time to come will not lay, the Quakers never D 5 faid, §8 Quaker ifm Withering, faid, affirmed, or believed, that the holy Scriptures are Death, Duft, and Serpents- Meat, &c. But notwithftanding all this, and much more that might be quoted of this nature, yet G. IV. boldly impofes upon the World, that though they call • the Scripture Dull, Death, and Serpents-meat, yet they do not call the holy. Scripture k $ iee their preten- ded Vindication , &c. f. 2. Ej]ay y &c. p. ^, 8. hut fay, The holy Precepts and Dotlrines they own : And irom thence they'r called, fays GJVholy Scriptures. I grantit is for that very reafqn that the Chriftians call themHo/y Scriptures. .But on the other hand I do pofitiyely affirm, That it is for that very Reafbn that the Quakers call them Duft, Death, .Serpents- meat, Beaftly Ware, &c. And this I will prove by the Practice of each fort, viz,* by both the Pra- ctice of the Chriftians, and the Practice of the Quakers. And fir ft/ the Chriftians they read them in their Churches, practice them in their Families, particularly the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, the Apo- ftle s Creed, think themfelves,' as Difciples of Chrift, obliged to follow the Examples of the Primitive Chriftians and Holy Martyrs, in frequenting the Ordinances of Jefus thrift, as Baptifm, and the Lord's Supper, and di- vers other Commands, &c. They believe the Scripture is given by divine Infpirat;on, and infallibly true, being by Wife and Good Men weilexpreffed and rightly applied, and that the but Cbrifliamty Reviving. 39 the true Prophets fpeak truly ; (b that there is a fweet harmony in the Scripturps. They believe alfo that Mofes was the firft Pen- man, and divinely infpir'd, and his Writings quo- ted by Chrift and his Apofties ; fee Mark 12. 16. Luke 2 4. 27. Luke 16. 19, & 24.27. 26,27,44. Jcfs.2. And for thefe and the like Reafons they call it HokSaripture. But then, Second l^ifXA muft judge the Tree by the Fruit, as Chrift directed, then the Quakers do not believe the Doctrin and Precepts recorded in Scripture, to be either bleffed or holy, and therefore cill them Duft, PeathjHuskjSerpents-meatjBeaftly Ware &c. which I thus prove : Fir/?, By the very reproachful Language and contemptuous Expreffion you caft upon them, as Duft, Death, Serpents- meat, &c. Secondly, In that you do not read them in your Meetings for Worlhip, nor recommend them to be read in your Monthly and Quar- terly Meetings, as you frequently do your own Epiftles. Thirdly, Becaufe you fay, That to preach out of them is Conjuration, which you would not, if you believed the Doctrines therein to be holy and bleffed. Fourthly, By reafon you lay afide as ufelefs the Ule of the Lord's Prayer, Ten Com- mandments, and the Apoftle's Creed, which are ibme of thole holy Precepts contained in the Scriptures. Fifthly, In that you deny the Ordinances ofjeius Chrift, and do not practife them ac- D 4 cording 4° Qvtah^Ytfm Wither itig, cording to the Command of Chrift, Go teach all Nations , baptifing, &c. This do in remem-* hrance of me,&c For if they were ;lncere,and did believe the Do&rin and Precepts were holy and bleffed, as they pretend, you would at fome time or other fee a Bible in their Hands, in a Meeting, and make Confeffion of Sin, and beg PaSon of God for Ghrifr's fake, which they'af35*did. Sixthly x That from your Practice, Words, and Writings you do prefer your own Books, Papers, and Epiftles before the Scriptures, as in New Rome unmask d } &c. New Rome ar- raign d 3 &c For proof fee your Yearly E pi- ffle follows. The zjthofthe %J Month, 1675". c 1 T is our Sence, Advice, Admonition, and c l Judgment, in the Fear of God, and the * Authority of his Power and Spirit, that no f fuch flight and contemptible Names and Ex* f pre&ons, as that faithful Friend's Papers, • which we.- teftifie, hath been given out b/ c the Spirit and Power of God, are Mens c Edicts or Canons y &c. with fuch Icornful Say- c - ings, be permitted by IV. Penn, Alex. Packe, € Stephen Crifp, George Whitehead \ and others. Now I am apt to think, as fuperititious as you are, that you did not afcribe Holinefs to the Paper and Ink of your own Papers and Pamphlets : But yet what Care, what Cau- tion, what Advice and Admonition was lent out from the general Council, not of Trent, but London, that no fuch fcornful Expreffions fhould but Chrtfiianity Reviving. 4 1 fhould be put upon your Friend's Papers, as Edifts and Canons, which indeed are not fuch contemptible Names ? And yet how do you charge them, by the Authority of the Power and Spirit of God, that no fuch contemptible, fcornful, and unfavory Expreilions be per- mitted to be caft upon your Papers, which you fay are given forth by the Power and Spi- rit of God ? So tender and careful you arc of your own nonfenfical Papers,Epiftles, &c. Here is no calling them Death, Duft, Ser- pents meat, Beaftly Ware, Carnal Letter, Husk, and the like ; no, nQ, yours were gi- ven forth, you (ay, by the Power and Spirit of God ; and confequently the Doctrines contained in them ( in your efreem) are blet led and holy ; and that is the reafon why you are ib tender and cautious of iuffering any flight and contemptible Names and unlavory Expreffions to be put upon them as Mens Editts. But as for the Scripture, who knows, fays you, whether Mofes or Hermes was the firft Pen-man ; or which part of Scripture was wrote (b true, that we may depend on it, flnce.what the Prophets, wrote is falfe, at leaft great part of it,and thereupon you who are thus doubtful do not believe the Doctrine and Precepts to be holy : And that doubt- lefi is theReafon why you not only permit, but your felves, even the beft of note amongfl you, call the Scripture by fuch unlavory Names and contemptible Expreffions, as Death, Duft,5erpents-meat, Beaftly ware,c£-c. Again, by the cave you take to fpread your Books 4? Ouafyrifin Withering^ Books andPapers,and not the Scriptures, is felf? evident that you do prefer your own Papers above the Scriptures. See your Epifi. Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quar- terly Meetings in England and Wales, for Jpreadhg Friends Books for Truths Service, Anno 1693. Dear Vriends y HAving at feveral Yearly Meetings confi- dered how all thofe Books printed for the Set-vice of Truth might moft effectually be ipread for a general Service to Truth ; ■ That the Printer fend to his Country Correfpondents, &c. 1. For Friends to have general notice what Books are printed, &c. 2. That they may fend for what quanti- ties they want. ;. That the Printer may be encourag'd in printing for Friends. 4. That one Book of a fort may be kept in each Monthly and Quarterly Meeting. Dear Friends , It's advifed that ye be careful mftreal;- aft fiich Books writ in defence and for the fervice of Truth, whether by way of Epiftle, Caution, Warning, Exhortation, or Prophecy, that we may not be negligent in promoting Truth. Record this Epiftle in your Quarterly Book, and fbmetimes read it for but Chrijiianity Reviving. 4. 3 for remembrance and notice. Signed on th e behalf of the Meeting, by B. B. Observation. Pray note, what Care, Caution, and Indu- ftry they ufe to fpread their Books ; working by Policy like Moles under ground, little ta- ken notice of, until they turn up the Founda- tion. Here is not a Word of Death, Dufi y or Serpents-meat ,Beafdy Ware &c. No,no* nor not a word of Scripture-Proof in either of thefe Epiftles. I was minded to put a Sample of their Books and Epiftles they write each to the other, to be read in their IVleetingsjn one Column ; and what they write to the World, to decoy, in another Column; (hewing their Books to be of two forts, of two Stamps, and to carry two Faces, as G.JV. hath con- fefTed of W. Smith's Primer: One reads as F. B. hath quoted ; another reads the contrary ; and fb is their general way. But I (hall ex- ceed what I athrft intended. See what Labour and Pains here is to fpread, difperfe, and fend up and down their Books to all the Counties in England and Wales. In the Yearly Epiftle, p. 2. they teU them, That in Germany ttairlk^oks are difper- fed, and Epiftles re^e^SeSe!^ zo'BarbaJocs, Maryland, Fenfylvania, Virginia, Scotland. Hul- land, Ireland* but not a word of recommen- ding the Scripture' : No. their Language and Practice fiifficiendy difcover their Diieireem they 44 Qmkgrifm Withering^ they have for it ; and their way, manner, and care to dilperfe their Erroneous Books, ftould re-mind all good Chriftians, and efpecially Paftours and Teachers, to affift in fpreading fuch Books as are, and have been wrote, to dete<5t their Errors ; particularly Mr. Norrus Book, and divers others. I fhall conclude this, with (hewing the Quakers way of charging their Difcipies to read their Epi files, &c. Several Tapers givzn forth for the fpreading of Truth, &c. Ptz>. c I charge * you in the Prefence of the Lord God , c to fend this [Epiftle] amongfr all Friends 'and Brethren every where, to .be read in all • Meetings to you all ; this is the Word of r God. Geo. Fox. Thus, like the Pharifees of old, they are making void the Holy Scripture by their Traditional Pamphlets, which they e'reem and prefer before Scripture ; as appears by undeniable Demon fixation, both from their Words and Practices, and which G. W\ 1 2 Witneffes may now perceive fairly proved. The Fourth Charge againft the They deny lhe*Q'rdincince of Jefus Chritf, as Baftifm and the Lord ! s Supper. THat they deny thele two Ordinances, their Pradices^s wtiJ as their Doctrine fuffi- but Chrijiianity Reviving. 4.5 fufficiently declare. Yet in regard G.W.p 2. fays, ' As for Bapcifm and the Lords Supper, * S:;riptura}ly confidei ed in their feveral Dif- ' penfations, in their Figure and Subilance^ c we confefs and own. This is ialfe, as their Books declare, vh,. E. Burroughs Works > 6cc. p. fi. ' The c Bread and Wine is vifible and carnal: c We fee them : — —But a Carnal Figure of ; a Spiritual thing: The Figure isdecla- c red againit : For Chri ft never fincehe c was Sacrificed brake of the Bread, or drank c of the Cup with his Diiciples, p. y$i. we 4 do deny, and do fay it is no Ordinance of ' God ; neither was it ever commanded of c him, or pra&iied by the Saints, but is an c infHtution of the Whore of Rome, and Eng- c land received it by a PcpiJh Inilitution ; c and your Pra&ice of it is Idolatry, and not e any part of the true Worfhipof God. And 1 as for your breaking Bread and drinking c Wine, we do utterly deny to be of God. News coming uf.&CQ, 6 A Voice and a Word c to all you Deceivers and Blafphemers, who ( utter both your Blaiphemy and Hypocrite; r that tell People of a Sacrament/ and tell i them 'tis the Ordinance of God. Blufh, c blufh ; and tremble you who live in the c Witchery, and bewitch the People,^. To the like purpofe fee Smith's Frimer^.^6. and the Mufick Lefture, &c. p. g>. 'Wheie 1 they are I was, viz,. In Performances. in Or- 1 dinances, in Family-Duties, in Hearing in 4 5 Qnakgrifm Withexihg^ c Reading, in Prayers and Fading : but * when I came to bend my Mind to that of c God in me, I durft not give A God Thanks f for the Victuals fet before me, &c. Obferve, Here is E. B. G. Fox, Sol. Eccles y all great Prophets, and W. Smith one of their Minifters, who teftifie both by Word and Do- drine, as well as the whole People by Pra- dice, that it is no Ordinance of God, but an Inftitution of the Whore of Rome, no part of God's Worftiip, but abfolute Idolatry « and that fuch as tell People of a Sacrament, are not only Witches, but Deceivers arid Blaf phemers, and ought not only to Blufh, but Tremble, &c And that though they had been in the Obfervation , yet Quakerifm hath lb alter'd their Judgment, as they con- fefs they have laid them afide. But frill for the Quakers thus to charge the Church of England with a Popifli Inftitution, Idolatry, &c. and yet feek to them for Favour, and a kind Acceptation, 'tis prepofterous : So that I might well fay, How could you have the Face to feek for Relief, till you retracl thefe Errors. As to your Exception againft Sprinkling, and teeming thereby to allow of Dipping : This is fallacious, in that you pra&ice neither. F.B's but Gbriftianity Reviving. 47 F. B's Fifth and Sixth Charge againft the ^IluaHerS* that they undervalue the Death and Suf- ferings of Chritf, and exalt their own Sufferings above the Sufferings of Chriff, above the Sufferings of the Apoflles y above the Sufferings of the Martyr s, or any Chriflians fence the days of Chriff, &c. E. Burrow'* Works, &c. 4 A Nd this is to go abroad into the Nati- • Ji\ on, and into the World : That 4 the Sufferings of the People of God (called 'Quakers) in this Age, is greater Suffering, * and more unjuft, than in the days of Chrifr, c or of the Apoftles, or in any time fince c Queen Mary's days, brought not forth a c Suffering more cruel. What was done f to Chrift, or the Apoftles,, was chiefly done ' by a Law, and in great part by the due c Execution of a Law, &c. In my Sheet to the Parliament I put a Query grounded upon this Do&rine, *&-&. Whether was greateft, the Sufferings of the Quakers, or the Sufferings ofChriff, to 'which G. W. gave no dired Anfwer, but glofied k over, as his ufual way is : For if he had an- fwered, that the Sufferings of the Quakers had been greateft 3 as their Do&ors Teach, the 48 Ouakgrifm Withering^ the People, would have been ready to flone him for Blafphemy. Again,if he had laid, the Sufferings of Chr ift had been greateft, he had then given the Lie to E. B. their great Pro- phet : So that he was in a great Strait, like the Phariiees of old their Predeceffors : For all the Saints Sufferings are not to be compa- red with the Sufferings of the ever-bleffed Je- ius. But in the next place, that they fhould thus exalt their own Sufferings above the Sufferings of the Apoftles, Martyrs, &c. is fiich a boaft, as hath no parallel amongft Protefrants. But that is not all ; they come in a? Advocates for all the Tyrants and bloody Perfecutors, who without any Law, and con- trary to Law, martyr d and murther'd many Thoufands for Ghrifl's fake, faying about fix lines off, And herein it appears the Sufferings to be more unjujh becaufe what the Perficutors of old did to the People of God % they did, by a Law, and by the due execution of a Law, &c. So that to confute this grand Error, wicked Lye, and faife Piea of the Quakers, rirft on behalf of the Perfecutors, who they fay executed their Cruelties upon the Apoifles and Martyrs not only by a Law, but by the due execution of a Law : Next on the behalf of themfelves ; both which I ihaU confider diitincrly, viz,. The Sufferings ofche Quakers of the one part, and the Sufferings of the Hoi/ ApofHes, Bief ied Martyrs, and Pious Pi oteftants, fince the days ofChrift, of the other part. I fay, in order to conLte this vain-glorious Error, I fhal] but Cbrijlianity Reviving. 4^ fliall firft produce a few Inflances of the Suf- ferings of the Apoftles and Martyrs, &c. and next, a Sample or two of the Quakers Suffe- rings ; and let G. W. in his next fhew hit Art, and deny my Argument if he can. Firft then, to begin with the Primitive Sufferers, Apoftles, and Biefled Martyrs, viz,. John Baprifty Stephen, James, Bartholomew % Mark, Peter, Andrew, Matthew, Philip, ?W, and divers ©thers, fome flead alive, fome their Brains knock'd out, fome crucified, fome bur- ned alive;. what Law did thefe Worthies differ by ? Was the Law duly or juftly exe- cuted upon them ? Arifwer in your next. Secondly, What fay you to the Ten Perfe- ctions under thofe bloody Tyrants, who, as Hiftory faith, differed as many as amounted to fooo to a day, for 12 months together, fome rack'd, fome burned, fome drawn to pieces by wild Horfes, fome fryed, fome roafted, fome broiled upon Gridirons, fome melted Lead poured down their Throats, fome put into boiling Coppers of Oyl, fome rouled in Barrels of Nails, and a hundred other exquifite Tortures and barbarous Cruel- ties y was this done by a Law, and the doe Executions of that Law ? And are your Suf- ferings greater ? Anfwer thefe three Queries in your next, or elfe as E. B. faid, acknow- ledge under your Hands, That you have been deceiv'd, and becomes falfe Witneffes, and publifli your retractation, for thus deceiving the World. E . Thirdly > ^O Qm\erifm Withering^ 3. What think you of the horrid Maflacres in France, Piedmont, Ireland, and the Martyr- dom of Salter Badly, Thorp Hus, Jerom of Prague, Zuinglius, Calvin, Bez,a, Bilny, Brad- ford, Frit h t Barns, Tindal, Ridley, Hooper, Father Latimer, Dr. Taykr, Biftiop Farrar, and Arch- bimop Cranmer *,which * which w. p. fays, i n the whole, as from tt^SXZ Hiftor y \ can ™ ke by his p M aice of Burning appear, was more than Joan of Km. j 0000000, who furTe- red the like Tortures which the Heathen Tyrants executed ; nay, ufed more or different Stratagems. Come G. TV. in your next, anfwer the laft three Queries diredly, without your gloffing or painting, for your Enchanting Art will not now do : For, ift, Either thefe fuffered by a Law, or they did not. idly, And by the due execution of that Law, or they did not. %dly, That the Quakers Sufferings have been greater, or they have not. If the firfr, bring forth your Arguments to prove it, for I deny them jointly and feverally : If the laft, are you not grofs Lyers and grand Importers, who have the Impudence thus to impofe upon the World ? Nay, \thly, Are your Sufferings more cruel than the recited ? If not,you are found Falfe-witneiTes ; and your Vera id for and on the behalf of the due Pro- ceedings and legal Executions of the bloody Tyrants, perfecting Papifts, and cruel Irifh, will not pais : You rnuU go out again \ for we but Chrijiianity Keviving* $ i we fay and deny that they differed either by Law or the due execution of a Law ; or that your Sufferings were either greater or more cruel ; all which your Doctrine holds forth, and nothing will falve it, but an ingenuous Retractation, publiihed in condemnation of Burroughs Doctrine, which is both taught, re- ceived, and believed by the poor milled Qua- kers. And now I fhall proceed to (hew a Sample of the Quakers Suffering, which be- ing compared with the recited, the difpro- portion will the better appear, w&< For Mee- ting, for Not Swearing, for wearing the Hat, for Tithes and Church- Dues, &c. from i6.f o. the day of the Quakers date, to 165* 8. which was after E. Burrough had wrote the Book above recited, which was in 165:7. though I grant it was reprinted in 1672. viz* A Declaration of the frefent Sufferings, &C. y. Evans imprifbn'd for fpeaking to a Prieft, y. Norris of Swafy, for the fame. El Fowler fpeaking in Steeple-houfe prifbn'd. y. Green of Bulbrook, for the like John Rogers imprilond for the like. Ann Blackling at Bury, for the like. George Harrison, for meeting, was abufed till he did fpit Blood. Bar. Logg fin'd 3 s. 4 d. for his Hat. Tho. Bagg, for not putting off his Hat, and for not iwearing, was fined 1 j /, 4. d. E a Reader, 5 2 Qnahgrifnt Withering^ Reader, here is one Sample of the Quakers Sufferings, which they bring in competition; nay, fay they exceed all before them iincethe days of Chrift : But what was it for? name- ly/or difturbing the exercife of the eftablifh'd Religion. But if any now difturb them, let them look for worfe Sufferings, not putting off their Hats, &c. For mark : As they cannot for Confcience fake put off their Hats to their Superiors, no more can they fuffer their Inferiors to ftand with their Hats on ; witnefs their forcing their Apprentices to Hand bare-headed before them : And like- wife for meeting together. And for that the Poor Man was fo abufed, that he did fpit blood : Ay, that he did, and 'tis recorded a Suffering too, to help to make up the balance between the Sufferings of the Quakers of the one part, and the Sufferings of Chrift^ his Apoffles and Martyrs on the other part. Pray fee the other Sample. . The Record of Sufferings for Tythes. TV. Ground's Tythes 20. took a Mare, j o o TV. Grounds Wardens, Rate 2 s. 1 d. a Kettle, 010 o R. Letcbwor tbfTythes 2o s. 2 Cows, f o o Dan. Pecbj, for Tythes 2 doz. Yarn, 020 Rob. Crabby Tythes 1 s. i d. took a Kettle, ' 070 Cl. Crabbfor Dues 7 s. Pot of Butter, 1 . o o Hen.FLce ^ducs 1 s. 6 d. took Goods 05 o W. John- but Chrijtianity Reviving. $ 5 W.Jobnfin,Tythes 9 s. 10J. Pot Butt. 1 3 o R. Crabb 2 Wardcns,Rates i s. io d. took Goods, o 4 io El. Carecroft ' Clerk's Wages 2 d. took Goods, 008 Another time, for the Popifh Stee- ple houfe, © r o Sam. Cater , dues 1 o d. took a Kettle, o 5* o Reader, I have given you a large Sample both of what they fuffer'd and what they took beyond what was due, as they lay, at their own price,and yet forced to bring in 8 d. and 12*/. Sufferers ; and yet it will not balance for the whole fum of their Sufferings in eight . years time through England and Wales, in Pots and Kettles,Dripping~pans,CandleiHcks, Pans, Barrels, Diflies, Cart-wheels, and other Lumber, comes to but 15*68 /. 14 s. 8 d.^ Behold the difproportion ; and yet they are not afhamed ; no, they are not at all afhamed :'But if they have any fhame in them, I intend to make them afhamed ; and in order to it, let me give you Cater, one of their Praters, I fhould have faid Preachers, fince he is fo upon Record, who formerly was a poor Journeyman Carpenter, with his Budget of Tools at his Back ; but fince he got the knack of Preaching worth many hun- dreds, &c. and I prefuuie much of it got this way, viz,. ' Sam. Cater, for being at a Meeting ac Vhackenham'm Norfolk, the 4th. of the >th. E 3 Month, $4 Q**ksrifm Withering^ ' Month, 1670. preaching and publi/hing the f Gofpel of Peace, one Ann Wats, a Woman- 6 Informer, told the Officers, who came with c a Warrant, and had him before Cbriftopber * Colthorp a Juftice, who fined him 20 /.which c Warrant and Convi&ion he lent to the r Juftices of the Ifle of Ely, namely, John La- 1 ney, Henry Hitch, and Thomas March, who in < purfuanceofthe Norfolk Juftice's Convicti- c on , fent their Warrant to the Officers of € Littleport (in the Ifle of Ely) who diftrai- < ned as much Houfhold- fluff and Timber c from the laid 5. Cater as was worth more f than 20 /. Reader, this is a Copy of the Record of their Quarterly Book, unlels they have torn it out for madnefs flnce I have difcover'd the Cheat, who (lands Recorded a Sufferer above ' ao /. for preaching, when in truth he did not fuffer 20 d. Nay, he was fo far from that, that he got 10 /. clear by it. And yet 100 year hence, when all are dead that know the matter, and none able to contradict it, it will look like a noble and valiant A& in S. C. thus to preach, and thus to fuffer for preach- ing. And perceiving by their lair yearly Epiftle, that they keep to their old way of fending up to London their Sufferings from thole Quarterly and Monthly Meetings, I am tb&.willingeno fhew the nature of their Suffe- rings, and the manner of their Proceedings, and particularly about Tythes taken from them, whether the Real Value due by Law, or but Cbtifkianity Reviving. 5$ or two or three times the Value : So that when their faithful Chronicles come forth, which they have told us of this 20 years,fuch as have been moderate, and for eafe to the Quakers and themlelves,have takeu no more than the Real Value, nay ,' perhaps lefs, (hall be render'd Perfection in the next Age. Eftfi. p. 1. ' That Friends, at all Monthly ' and Quarterly Meetings^ call for the Suffe- * rings of Friends, to fee that they be fent < up (to London) both of what Tythes are c pretended to be due,, and for how long ' time, and the time when taken, and by and 1 foj: whom, and what Goods are taken, and * the value thereof ; as well of thole not ex- 1 ceeding as thole exceeding the fums deman- f ded, both being a Suffering for Truths lake ; ' they being in thefe Particulars found de- c fe&ive, is an Obffru&ion to the general r Record of Friends Sufferings : And there- c fore the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings c are advifed to take more Care for the fu- c ture, that all Friends Sufferings for Truths c fake may be brought up as full and com- * pleat in all refpedts as may be, &c. By which 'tis evident that they defign to reprefent to the next Age ail Perfons who take Tythes, let them be never lb moderate in their Demands and taking of Tythes, Terfecuters : Which as it is an ill Reprefenta- tion for iuch a Nation as this, who profels the Name of Jefus, lb is it both uncharitable and ungrateful in them,their Indulgence con- E 4 fider'd. $6 Qnal^rifm Withering^ fidcr'd . And that they do (b intend, fee their Book, Judas and t h$ Jews, &c. p. 41. c Our < Faithful Chronicles of the bloody Trage- c dies of that Profeffing Generation, will tell 1 future Ages other things, &c From which pafTage three thin'gs are obfervable : iftjhat Trofejfing Generation, meaning the Presbyterians, hdependants, and Baptijts, for they do account them ProfeJJors of Chrift, but not ToJJejJ'ors or Enjoytrs of what they profefs, only empty TrcfeJJors, meer Notionijts, airy Talkers, &c. 2. But the Epifcopalians they account-the Pro- phane, the Publicans, the Vulgar or Com- mon People, but both of the World ;*and their Teachers falfe, their Scriptures Death, their Gofpel Duft and Serpents-meat, their Ordinances an Inltitution of the Whore, and rejected by themfelves. 3. But themfelves the only ToJJejJ'ors and Enjoyers of the Light, Spirit, and Subftance, together with a few pious Gentiles, as G. W: calls them in his Book, The Chriftian DoBrine^ &c. p. 9. And W. Venn beftows about 40 Pages in folio upon Gentile Divinity .in his Chrift. Quah&c. Yea, Ellwood, Richardfon, and the mod Learned amongft them, as they have ihewed all the Contempt they can to Jefus of Nazareth, ("calling him a Veil,, a Garment, which they can never call Chrift ) to the Script ures, to the Ordinances and Mmifiers of Jefus of Naz,. with great Incharity : So on the other hand they have taken ail the care they can to raife the Fame of the Gentiles, Heathens, Jewiffi Ido- laters, but Chrifiiamty Reviving. $ y laters, as poffibly afterwards may be made appear. Well, but this is a Digreffion, let us come to Sam. Qaters Sufferings. Firft, 'tis true he did preach, was fined, was diftrained, as recorded, but all his Goods was returned, and for this Noble Ad he had 10 /. lent him out of the Treafury from Lon- don, by John Peacock, late of St. foes, as a Re- compence ; but his poor Neighbors R. Crabb, T. Paine, and others, was fined and diftrained for meeting Juney. 1670. and neither had their Goods again, nor a Reward out of Lon- don Cheft, that I ever beard. A notable way to encourage fuch Praters to banter all other Diffenters (who are not fo vainglorious as themlelves, nor lb cunning and ciofe as the Quakers, who may compare with Jefuit and Jew) as G. W. in his Chrift. Quak. and Dfv. did, who charged them to hold Erroneous and Blafphemous Principles, carnal Polity, tiniercus, creeping, occult, cowardly, baje, &c. And as I faid, that I may make them afkamed of their deceitful Practices; who thus banter and do- mineer overall other People, I may recite part of an Edict, (only I muft remember not to give their Laws fuch contemptible Names as Edi&sJ which enjoined the Hearers to meet constantly, and fuffer greatly, info- much as that in the loft of i^^.o /. their Preachers never loft 5-0 /. And the Rsafbns thereof are more particularly handled in my Book, The fainted Harlot both firipp'd c.*:d whipfd, &C. An t$ Quaker ifm Withering, An Abftrad of their Antimagiftratical Edift is as followeth, viz,. London, 27. of the 3d Month, 1 67$. IT is our Advice and ^Judgment, That all Friends keep up thofe fublick Tefiimonies^ and wither decline, forfake, nor remove their publick AjJcmblieSy hecauj'e of Ttmes of Sufferings, as otwldly, fearful, and politick Vrofefjors have done, 8cc. Signed by G. W. W. P. and divers others. Yet notwithftanditjghowdid G.Whitehtad creep up and down, here and there, with all the caution and timeroafnefs poffible? to evince which, lee a Letter he order'd to be writ to me, to appoint a Meeting for him, &c DEar Friend F. B. G. W. // now here, and dotk-Purpofe to be at your Meeting the 27th Inftant, and therefore defireth that Friends may be together by the nth hour at furtheft. Thou need not mention his Name to any particularly, but rnaiji- acquaint them of a Friend's Intent fn to be 'with them the time aforefaid. So with G. W\j dear Love to thee and thy Wife, I reft thy dear Friend, *£ Stoake i*th of rhc H^, Hubbard . iun. nthMon. 1675-. * 7 Thus wary was G. W. and cautious in his Travels, which had been well enough, had he but Chrijiiamty Keviving. i- p he left the People free : But for him to make a Law againft the National Law, that they muft conftantly meet, and neither forfake,re- move, nor decline, &c. like worldly, politick and fearful Profeffors, yea, antifcriptural too; For i faid Chrift, if they perfecute you in one city, flee or remove to the next. And his infpired Difciples oftentimes met privately for fear of the Jews, &c. yet how did G. W. like Ahab go difguifed ? he muft not be known, his Name muft not be mentioned. Well, I knew him and his Name too, and had his Company and dear Love too, and called Dear Friend, yea, all dear to me at that time, though now I have fo difturbed this fubtile Fox, and fo manifeftcd his deceit- ful Practices in many things, that he cannot afford me my proper Name, only Bugg ; Bugg fay fo ? Bugg quote,e^fi#ggsTeftimony;yea 34 times he calls me only Bugg in one Sheet | and fince I came to London, in a private Let- ter, in one fide of half a Iheet, he calls me eleven times only Bugg, fuch is his proud, diftlainful, and infolent Behaviour, befides fcurrilous Names and reproachful Terms, far- contrary to their pretence in the beginning. See, An Account of the Children of Light, &c. p. 16. c Alfo it hath been laid upon us by the * Lord, to call Men and Women by their c Names, which their Fathers have given 1 them to be known amongft Men by, & c . But; 60 Quahgrifm Withering, But G. W. is grown fo great fince he came firft amongft the Quakers, Anno 165-2. (a poor Boy about 1^ or 16 years old, .travel- ling on foot J and hath fo gathered up his Crumbs, though chiefly at other Mens Ta- bles, that he fcorns to call him that hath fed him and his Friends at his Table by his pro- per Name : Oh, Infblent and Imperious George ! I have been the longer on this Head, be- caufe 'tis the moft glorious Jewel in their Crown, how counterfeit foever it be with- in : For, when there was no Perfecution, they cut themfelves out Work, by diftur- bing of Churches, for which they fome- times fuffer'd the Juftice due to fuch Offen- ders, and then they cried put of Perfecti- on, and relblved to go on againft all Law, Government, and Rule, and all that oppo- sed them : herein was Nebuchadnezzar, Da- rias, &c and themfelves Daniel, Sbadrack,&c. and in a little time came to collect their Suf- ferings, whether it was 6d. 8 d. or 1 s. in it went ; and having by 1657. in England and Wales y mufter'd up if68/. 14*. 8 d. they printed, and taught, Jha.t their Sufferings was greater and moremnjufi than the Suffe- rings of Chrift, his Apoftles, and Martyrs, and more unjufi in that they fuffered by a Law, and that Law duly executed. I do not doubt, but if G. F 's Works be printed, there will be fuch a difcovery of Quakerifm as the World never faw 7 but I do declare my Be- httt Cbrijlianity Reviving. 6 1 Belief is, they will never print them, left they be laid by Sol Eccles Fiddles : Pofllbly they may print fome PafTages of his Travels, to make Fools admire , and Wife Men laugh. VI Charges againfl G* W* I- A IPuWtCfe Defames See his Book £\ Judgment fixed, &c. p. 263. cc Fran- cc cis Bugg is turned Informer : To let pals all his other Names, as Cankered Apoftate, Vile Apofiate, Self-condemn d Apofate, Judas Runa- gate, Beajl, Dog, Wolf Child of the Devil,- Ene- my of all Right eoufnefs, &c. That very Name Informer, the time 1682. confider'd, is Effi- cient to term and prove him a publick Defa- mer, and a malicious Incendiary; for he knew me to be no fuch manner of Perfbn, but one of the greateft Sufferers by Informers in the whole County. But however T. Bird, J. Mafon, J. Ellington, W. Belflam, and above Twenty more Quakers, gave me a Certifi- cate, to certirie the contrary ; and did very nobly teftifie againft fuch Antichrifrian Treatment. But it is by fuch Arts they have raifed their Structure, witnels their Book en* tituled, A Battkdoor, &c. laying />, 3. Come ye Doclors, Scholar S; Teachers , and Magiftrates^ &c. m 62 Quahgrifnt Withering, in which, befide the Engltjh, and lbme other foreign Languages, there was the Latin, Ita- lian, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Sjriack 5 and before each of thefe Six Languages, in each Page, at the beginning of each Language, they ere&ed the form and figure %f a Child's Penny horning Battledoor, f ubfcribed on the Handle thereof Geo. Fox ; and all was about Thee and Thou,fingular and plural, as if they had been fiich Ignoramuses as did not under - ftand tu and The r*nJ. &c f. 3. Fra. Bugg affirms in his Book de Chr. Lib. far. 2. p. 83 primed 1682. tbit Confor- mity is a Moftftei , C '. — —and about two years after he himfilf conform d,e£v. In an- lwer,I am not the Author of one word of that Page, but the whole Paflage is a Query of John Awjloes, propounded to S. Cater and others, beginning />. 81. ending f. 87. with his Name to it, and by me quoted as hisfence touching that Conformity they requifd of him, about taking his Wife in fubje&ion to their Law of W omens Meetings, and to whom neither J. Ainjloe nor my lelf ever conformed : And as it was jf. A\ and by me quoted, to fhew his fence, and to manifeft Quakers again ft: Quakers, 16 it's an abfoiute piece of Forgery to fry, he affirms he himfdf conformed, hisownTeftimony : When all this while it was none of F. B. but J. H 's writing, and both his Name and Date, with a black line drawn todiftinguiftiitfrom mine. Who then can give credit to this Infincere, pretended ferious G. W. this grand Forger. III. 3 ?[21HfUl ILpat* The Content. Afo- ftate, &c. p. 3. c E Bugg and his Company c being got to the Meeting before G. W. and € into the Gallery where our Miniirring c Friends tiled to be, &c. In fhort. 'tis faile, and that to G. Whitehead s Knowledge too ; i F for 66 Qnakerifm Wither ing^ for there was not a Man of my Company in the Gallery with me, but 5. Cater ; and this he wilfully and malicioufly fent abroad, to render me a turbulent Dilturber ; which is fully proved in New Romeunm. &c. p.^o^i. IV. 3 @?Of53 !S)CCl3ei:ter. The Quakers Fwd.&c.p.^. ' Note, that the Inftances Bugg c has to prove the Quaker's Contempt of Go- f vernors, being between the years 1654.. and c 165-9.' when 'tis clear (thereby J that c the Magiftrates and Minifters inftanced * were thole very Perfecuters andUfurpersin c O. Cronrwels days, whereby F. B. has at once c juftifled thofe Magiftrates or Governors in 6 thoie days, as Chrift's Magiftrates, andcon- c fequentiy the Ufurpation of that Govern- € ment teitirled againft by E. B. and others. Reader, the main thing intended by this Per- verter 'G. W. is to make the World believe that they were fuch Enemies to Oliver and his Ufurpation, as that E. Burr, and the Qua- kers only reprehended thole Governours and Magiftrates as fuch, when 'tis no fuch mat- ter ; for tho* I grant they were wrote in O.C's time, yet they were reprinted in .1672. and by the Quakers common confent and appro- bation, and for which they are relponfible until they condemn them. Well, but did G. Fox, E.Burrcugh fo fererely reprehend that Ufurpation ? I go think, who ever read Tbt Quakers unmatlt d,&c. will be of another mind. P. 21. To all you who are called Delinquents and Csvahers : c Thus faith the Lord, My Con- i troverfie *but Chriftianity Reviving. 6j € troverfie is againft you, even my Hand of * Judgment is upon you already, and you are r become curled in all your hatchings. — And 'though your Kings, and Princes, and Nobles * have been cut off in Wrath, — yet you re- c pent not ,• nor will you fee how you are gi- 1 ven up to be a Curie, and a Defblationjand < a Prey in Houfes, and Lands, and Perfons to e them whom I railed up ( /. e. O. Cromwel ) c againft you, and gave Power over you. — — ' And you and your Kings and Lordly Power c /hall be enflave*d by the Devil in the pit of c Darknefs, in everlafting Bondage, where he c /hall reign your Lord and King for ever- c more, &c. Given under my Hand and fea- 1 led by the Spirit of the Eternal G(#, through e Edw. Burrougb. Taken at firft out of the Trumpet of the Lord founded, />. 9. but left out of E. B's Works in the reprint, which ar- gues, that G. TV. &c. did not believe E. Burr. was fo moved, nor that his Meffage was fb fealed by the Eternal God, as E. B. pretended, for if they did, they dealt very unfaithfully to leave out fuch a notable Prophecy. Thus you lee E. Burrougb was lb far from reprehending Oliver or his Ufurpatioa, that he tells what the Delinquents was, and how God's Hand was upon the Royal Party, their Kings, Princes, Nobles, Lands, Houfes, &e. in Judgment; and that Oliver was railed of God, &c. Well, let us hear whatG. R. ano- ther of their Prophets lays, viz,. F 2 \(>9% in which, amongft other things, you p. 3. order. 1. That your Books be Ipread up and down the Nation as well as in parts beyond the Seas, which being unlicens'd, and tending to defame both the Clergy and Gentry, is a Ufurpation I am againft. 2. That none mould pay Tythes, but re- fute payment .thereof, as an Antichriftian Yoke of Bondage ; which ftiew that >ou at Devonfmre-houfe interfere with thofe at Weft- m'mjier. 3. That none fhould pay to the Steeple- houfe Rates or Leys, which put the Country to great trouble, and yoarProfelytes,whofub- mit their Necks to your Usurpation to great Sufferings, tending to Sedition and very evil Effect. 4. That none jhould carry Guns in their Ships. This (hews that you are not content with your own Eafe, but as far as your Ufurpati- on prevail,you weaken the Government, and are not willing to leave your People [ your People, did I fay ? yes, your People ; for if you fay once what they mall or mail not do, 5 tisa Law like that of the Meads >&c7\ to their Freedom in this and many other Inftances, 1 .Whether to publifh their Intentions to mar- ry before Womens Meetings or not. 2. To meet but Chrijii'anitj Reviving, yi meet precifely at the time, day, and place,whe- ther the Law command the contrary or not, 3. To pay Tythes, or not. 4. To pay to the Church Rates or not. y. To carry Guns, and ferve their King and Country, or not. 6. To buy of your Books, as they are perfwaded, concerning theTruthof them or not. I fay, Did you leave your People free, and at liber- ty in thefe and other thi.ogs, } ou would do well : Then if any particular perfbn could not for Confcience fake acquiefce in any of thele things, wherein the Law requires their a&ive Obedience ; then let liich pray the Magiftrates and Government to hold them excus'd,and when fo done, let them acknow- ledge the Favour from the Government, who only ought to be Judges in that Cafe. But your taking upon you this Uflirped Domini- on x the more you prevail upon the People,the lSCifie Kingdom is, and confequently the m,ore you encreaie, the more dangerous. And this Ufurpation I teftified againir in my Book de Chr. Ubertate, Anno 1682. and in Painted Harlot, &c. 16 8 3. and in feveral other Books ; and now you fee I am of the fame Judgment ftill touching Ufurpation, e^-c. V. 3 JFalfe $IOflCt. The QuaVtod.&cc.p 2. F. B. accufes fomebody with ob jetting ag at nfi pay- ing Tytbes under the new Covenant, becauje abro- gated by Chrijt y 'ob[er i ving from thence^ that the Quakers condemn the Martyrs, &C. Obferve this Falfe Gloffer : I did not fay they condemn either Martyr or others, who did refufe pay- ment of Tythes - } I neither laid fb, nor will my . • 7 2 OuJkerifm Withering, my won' 1 1 -.any fuch intendment, but by that Do trine iaid down by Tho. Ellwood, iri his An. Jote,&c. p. 78. c Truth allows no pay- c ment of Tythes at all under the new Cove- nant ; they who pay Tythes uphold a legal c Ceremony abrogated by Chrift.and thereby f deny Chrift come in the Flefli, which is a . c Mark of Antichrift, & c . I fay, by this Do- • #rine they do conclude, That all that pay Tythes, whether voluntary or by force, ^nd all fjch as receive Tythes,and make Laws that Tythes (hall be paid, are Antichriftians ; nay, not only the prefent Generation of Men, but all former and future Generations that have been, or ihall be, fmce the days of Chrift be- ing perfonaliy on Earth to the Worlds end : And 'tis this your Incharity that Ioppofe, and think it great preemption in you to feek Fa- vour at the hands of fuch as you condemn as Antichriftians, &c. vi. a 'DtzziUt of tlje ISteopfe, $*&* tttnffix*d* Intro d. &c. If the Lord did not Lay a Ntteffit'y upon me,l(bould chufe to be mute ; — but the Lord-has' laid the Necejjity upon me. — I neither confult Events nor few Effe&Si &c. If what I have herein (aid be true,and which I offer co prove before 10 or 12 impartial Men, then he is a great Deceiver of the People ; nay, were it needful, where I hare mentioned one Prefident,( which in order to prove my Charge I was obliged to do; I could have men- tion^ ten, both Lyes, Pervertions, Forgeries, Falfe Glof- fes,andfcandaIousDefamations,both of my felt and others. But this may ferve for both Caution and Warning to fucrj as, like the noble Bereans of old, are willing to try all things : Which that they may,is the hearty Defire of him thar was once led away by their DifiimuUtton. Fra. Bugg. FINIS. W*'** 'A