A Second Summons to the City Abel, 2 Sam. 20. To deliver up Sheba, the Son of Bichri, that Man of Belial; by way of Metaphor, Alluding to the Quakers and Geo. Whitehead. And may serve for a Reply to their Answer to my Printed Sheet, styled, The Quakers Yearly Meeting Impeached, etc.  
Geo. Whitehead,  
I Have perused your Printed Sheet, as I have Reason to Judge, although 'tis Signed by five of your Undergraduates; being either ashamed to appear yourself (as well you may) or else fearing that if your Name were to it, People would slight it, as not worth Reading, being the Fruit of an Old Contentious , etc.  
You say, pag. 2. That Wickliff, Suinderly, etc. Testified against the Popish Clergy, and Tithes, etc. By which you seem to make no difference between a Popish and Protestant Clergy, for which the Church of England will not thank you. But George, why do you thus fight with your own shadow, and thus trifle besides the business? I did not Impeach the Quakers for not paying Tithes, though that be Criminal enough; but your Yearly Meeting, for Imposing the nonpayment of Tithes upon your People, and that too as a grand Oppression, and Antichristian Yoke. And I say again, for you to Meet Annually, by way of Convocation, to make and promulgate such Antimagistratical Laws, not only against, but contrary to the Laws of the Land; Is both against the King's Prerogative, the Rights of Parliaments, and Property of the Subject; yea, and of dangerous Consequence. And I say again, that by these your Cannon Laws you do actually Absolve the King's Subjects (if the Quakers may be so called) from their Active Obedience to the Laws of the Land, which requires them to pay Tithes, Churchwardens Rates, take Lawful Oaths, carry Guns, etc.  
But say you, these are but Epistles, and consequently not contrived Constitutions: But G. W. this will not do; it's true, you call them Epistles, but you send them down to your Monthly and Quarterly Meetings as Laws: And as Magna-Charta was formerly wont to be read in the Churches once, or oftener, every year, so do you Order your Epistles to be Recorded and Read in your Quarterly Meetings (which is more than ever you did the Scripture.) See your Epistle, styled, Renewed Advice to the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, etc. in England and Wales, etc. And at the Conclusion you end thus: Record this Epistle in your Quarterly Book, and sometimes read it for Remembrance and Notice. Thus 'tis plain that your Epistles are Laws to your People, and as plain, that as the Power and Influence of your Yearly Meeting prevails, so must that of Westminster vail; since what is made Lawful at Westminster, at your Yearly Meeting is made unlawful; yea, a Grand Oppression, an Antichristian Yoke: And as such you charge and Command your People not to pay Tithes, etc. as in my former Sheet more at large.  
And this Consideration, together with your Indicting me for Printing without Licence 
* As your Indictment sets forth, for I took a Copy of it, which possibly you may see hereafter, with some Observations upon it. , although it be your own frequent Practice, put me upon delivering a Printed Sheet to the Parliament, styled, Something in Answer to the Allegations of the Quakers, etc. Dec. 1693.  
To which Sheet G. W. replied and proposed, saying, viz. I G. W. freely offer, and am willing to make it appear before any six, ten, or twelve competent Witnesses, who are moderate Men of Sense and common Reason, That Fr. Bugg has grossly abused and perverted Truth, and wronged the People called Quakers, both in Charge, Citation, and Observation, etc. Now in Answer to this seeming fair offer, I came up to London the February following, and then proffered to meet G. W. and to leave Matter of Fact to the decision of four Men, chosen by each of us, out of Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Independants, or Baptists; or out of any one of those four Christian Societies. But this G. W. refused; but I held him to his word any, and renewed my Acceptation of his Proposal, May 1695. but he still refused to stand to his word: Then I Impeached their Yearly Meeting. And now in this their Answer, G. W. complains, saying, p. 7. But now see how knowingly unfair Fr. Bugg is, after his railing against G. W. and the Quakers Books; as none so bad, none so gross, none so blasphemous, but G. W. the Quakers Bellarmine, will undertake to Vindicate them, who for these Forty Years and upwards hath been like Ishmael, his Hand against Episco— Pres— Indep. and Baptists, and theirs against him. Such than are Fr. Bugg's disinterested Persons, whose hand is against G. W. (as he confesseth) And yet would have him leave Matters of Fact in Controversy to their Judgement and Decision, etc.  
I grant that Episcopalians, etc. are great Enemies to the Errors of the Quakers, and that some of all those Societies have wrote against them, and that G. W's. hand, like Ishmael's hath been against them all. But this G. W. knew as well as I, before he made the proffer; his proffer was voluntary, and uncompelled to meet me before any eight, ten, or twelve moderate Men, etc. And what to do? Why, to make it appear that Fr. Bugg had wronged the Quakers in Charge, Citation, and Observation. Now this is Matter of Fact; what, cannot he find four moderate Men in those four Christian Societies, that will do him that Justice, to Judge aright, whether Fr. Bugg cited the right Book, quoted the same Page, observing from thence the true sense of the matter? Truly his pretence to a Charitable Distinction, in the Qua. Vind. p. 2. Col. 2. between the more moderate and the rigid, etc. amounts to very little, if he dare not trust their Judgement to decide whether Fr. Bugg rightly cited their Books, truly quoted their Pages, and from thence fairly observed the Sense thereof, or no: But still suppose they be such Partial Wretches, as that eight or ten cannot be found amongst them all; who is to be charged with unfairness? 'Tis not Fr. Bugg; he only taketh G. W. at his word, [and holds him to it.] See Quaker. Withering, etc. p. 2. to 12. where this 〈…〉.  
Object. But possibly some may say, You deal too severely with the Quakers, not only by exposing their Principles, but you render them Perjured, and deserve Pilloring, etc.  
Answ. I grant some may blame me, yea, and good Men too; who do not see so clearly into their deceitful Practices as I do, and through much Experience have done. Erasmus was a good Man, who was accounted the Light of that Age, yet he blamed Luther, Hist. of the Reformation, etc. p. 42. Luther (said he) hath excellently admonished the World in many things, I wish he had done it more civilly, he would have had more favourers and defenders, and have reaped for Christ a more plenful Harvest, etc. Thus you see that Zealous Luther was blamed by Worthy Erasmus: And if such a Man as Luther was thus blamed, why should I think it strange? As to the Pillory, the occasion of it was their falsifying their Word in the case of Evidence between G. W. and me: For they long before that, by their Books styled, The Case of the People called Quakers, in relation to Oaths, etc. p. 26. And in another Book, styled, A Treatise of Oaths, etc. p. 3. They pretended A willingness to suffer, as in the Case of Perjury, in case they broke and falsified their Word, etc. As at large recited in New Rome Arraigned, etc. Epist. to the Bereans, etc. And though I erected a Mock-Pillory, to show them, what in reality they did deserve, yet it had this Service, that it manifested their Persecuting Spirit, and what they would be at, had they Power put into their hands. O! how did they fly to the Powers of the Earth (which they formerly blamed others for) crying out to Secretary Trenchard for help against Fr. Bugg! Yea, they Indicted 
* If they do deny it, I have a Copy out of the Court, with G. W's. Name and the rest: And their Indictment is in the most aggravatious terms that ever I saw.  me at the Old Bailey, London, when I was absent Sixty Miles, and knew nothing of it. O! how did they solicit the Secretary of State against me! And did not W. Crouch give Five Pounds, and Promise a larger Sum, if he could have had their Revengeful Prosecution of me taken effect; and my Book, New Rome, etc. (which they had got seized) to be burnt. With many other signs of their Persecuting Spirit, which, had they Power, they would manifest more and more, as they did in Pensilvania to G. Keith and his Friends, where they both Fined and Imprisoned them, and took away R. B's. Goods for Conscience-sake: Yea, so Inhuman were they, that when they Committed W. Bradford and John M'comb, one of their Wives was newly brought to Bed, and lay very weak in a High Fever, and several thought she would not live; and though he requested them to let him go home, yet they would not grant him leave to see her. Oh, merciless Magistrates! I myself, when a Quaker, was Prisoner at once more than three Years, yet during that time I had leave divers times to go home to visit my Family, which I find I must not expect if ever I be Prisoner under the Quakers, who being Magistrates in Pensilvania; can both Fine, Imprison, and take away Goods, and fight with Carnal Weapons; both which, viz. Persecutioh for Conscience, and Fight with Carnal Weapons, they have pretended to be against. But now I see 'tis but till they get Power, and become Magistrates themselves. And truly, if as T. C. hath modestly computed, there be but 100000 Quakers in England, and 1000 of them Preachers, and 1000 Meetings, and W. Pen Influence (as he observes) but 80000 of them to Fight and Persecution, I know not what a little time may bring forth. For as T. C. well observes, They are but sowing their Seed now, but the full Crop may not appear in this Age; which puts me in mind of their former Declaration, Printed 1659. Signed by W. Crouch and fourteen more, saying, p. 12. We have chosen the Son of God to be our King, and he hath chosen us to be his People: And he might Command Thousands, and Ten Thousands of his Servants at this day, to fight in his Cause, and give them Victory over all their Enemies, and turn his hand upon their Persecutors. But yet his Kingdom is not of this World— Neither can we yet believe that he will make use of us in that way:— But for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Names-sake. From whence it's plain, that in 1659. they said, Neither can we yet believe: But by their Practice in Pensilvania in Anno 1692. they believe they may now Fight and Persecute too. That in 1659. the Quakers said, But for the present we are given up to bear and suffer all things for his Names-sake: But by their Practice in Pensilvania 1692. they say, they will not be affronted by any body: They will Fight with Guns and Swords, and Persecute (such as tell them they go from their Principles) with Fines and Imprisonment. Come, G. W. what is become of your Interpretation of the word as yet? What, is it tamen? I hope you see it to be Adhuc; as yet in exception to the time to come. I know you are good at Inuendo's, and at directing the Intention (Jesuit like.) See his Book, styled, The Light and Life of Christ within, etc. p. 58. Solomon Eccles (one of their False Prophets, which prophesied that John Story should die within a Year, who lived three or four Years after) who said, The Blood which was forced out of Christ's Body, when he was dead, was no more than the Blood of another Saint: Which Blasphemy G. W. excuses, saying, No more than the Blood of another Saint, his intent was, as to the Papists, etc. Which Blasphemy G. K. in his Book, styled, A true Copy of a Paper, etc. p. 17. to 31. hath effectually discovered. And G. W. is so good at Directing the Intention, that he knows what all his Friends mean; for in his Counterf. Conu. etc. p. 72. he says, I may see cause otherwise to word the matter, and yet our Intentions be the same: The English of which is, though Is. P. deny Jesus of Nazareth to be Christ, and make him but a Veil, a Garment, etc. And G.W. confess him to be the Christ, yet they mean all one thing, only a Garment. And (the Light) that was therein crucified is the Christ. And what was his Person to them more than another Person? Oh, but says his Young Pupil Pennington, The Discoverer Discovered, etc. p. 13. The Author of this Doctrine being nameless, I suppose he has forgot who it was: And truly I cannot blame him for forgetting what I believe (saith he) had never any other Foundation but mere Imagination, etc. Surely if his Infallible Spirit, with which they pretend to be endued, so as thereby to be furnished with Discerning and Judgement on all occasions, (Judas and the Jews, etc. p. 58.) could not tell him, yet G. W. might, for 'tis in The Christian Doctrine and Society, by G. W. p. 5. and W. Baily's Works, p. 300. 307. Come, G. W. since the Quakers are attained to that Perfection, as that they hold Courts of Judicature in the Name of the Honourable William Penn; And that you have Judges, Lawyers, Bailiffs, Constables, Goalors and Soldiers, Guns and Swords in Pensilvania, tell me the Intention of your great Apostle G. Fox, in his News coming up, etc. p. 20. Sing, all ye Saints, and rejoice, clap your hands, and be glad, for the Lord Jehovah will Reign 
* Viz. When we get Governors over Pensilvania and England, etc. , and the Government shall be taken from you pretended Rulers, Judges and Justices, Lawyers and Constables; all this Tree must be Cut down, etc. But I cannot enlarge at present on this Subject; but the more you strive to cover and cloak your Errors, the more do you give occasion to have them manifested; which puts me in mind of a Fable, recited by Luther, Malum irritatione auctum, A Sore groweth worse by chase. And truly since our Scuffle first began about women's Meetings, the Sect of the Foxonian Quakers (like the Man in the Fable) appears not only Lame, but Scabby, etc. And the more they give occasion, the more I rub and chafe this Corrupt Sore, until it will stink all the Nation over. If they again complain, that I put frightful Garments upon them, let them withal remember, 'tis a Web of their own Weaving.  
Now I shall show what Geo. Fox, the Founder of Quakerism, says of himself; next, what his Brethren, by way of Confirmation, say of him; and next, what the Quakers they say of the National Ministry, of the Scriptures, Sacraments, and of their own Writings, briefly and in Order.  

First, of G. Fox's Assuming Divine Attributes to himself.  
News coming up, etc. p. 1. Written from the Mouth of the Lord, from one who is naked, and stands naked before the Lord, clothed with Righteousness, whose Name is not known in the World; Risen up out of the North, which was prophesied of 
* Quere, by which Prophet? , but now it is fulfilled, etc. Several Petitions Answered, etc. p. 60. My Name is covered from the World, and the World knows not me, nor my Name, A Battledoor, etc. Introd. All Languages are to me no more than dust, who was before Languages were, etc. (Alike to James Parnel, in his Book, The Watcher, etc. p. 37. But to the end of all Disputes and Arguments I am come, for before they was, I am. I have Power to bind and to lose whom I please, from him whom the World calls George Fox, who is the Son of God. G. F. W. O. C.  
The Examination and Trial, etc. p. 21. The Thundering Voice answered [me Geo. Fox] I have glorified thee, and will glorify thee again. And I was so filled full of Glory, that my Head and Ears was filled full of it. A Journal, etc. p. 31. 60. 67. I was in the Paradise of God; and that it was Christ the Eternal Power of God, that spoke in me at that time unto them:— And that was the Word of the Lord, and of Christ through me to him: So that it was a dreadful thing unto them, when it was told them, the Man in Leathern Breeches is come. See also p. 45. And for his pretended Miracles wrought in his own Name only, p. 371. 374. Saul's Errand, etc. p. 8. And he that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ, is equal with God, which Spirit G. Fox pretended to have. The Great Mist. etc. p. 894. The Quakers have a Spirit given to them beyond all the forefathers (which we [said G. F.] do Witness), since the days of the Apostles in the Apostasy. And they can discern who are Saints, who are Devils, and who are Apostates, without speaking ever a word. The Great Mystery, etc. pag.  
Thus Reader, I have given you a few Instances of Blasphemy, which hang and depend one upon another, as a Chain linked together. And the next shall be what his Preachers said of him, by way of Corroboration. But first, hear what G. W. says, in order to convince the World that Geo. Fox owned Jesus of Nazareth; which indeed and in truth is no more nor less than he, G. F. said of himself: A notable Proof, well may he be afraid, or ashamed, or both, to meet me before moderate Men of sense. Well, hear G. W. for once; A Just Enquiry, etc. p. 23. And G. F. is more fully cleared from these Adversaries Reproach in this matter by his own Innocent Testimony. Great Mist. p. 254. That by Christ the Light, all things were made and created, and that he was glorified with the Father before the World began, etc. Well done, George. But now let us see if he do not say thus much of himself; and if so, what Paint hast thou in store next? The Teachers of the World unvailed, etc. p. 27. I am the Light of the World, him by whom the World was made: And doth enlighten every Man that cometh into the World 
* Meaning the Light in him.  Again, The Examination and Trial at Lancaster Assizes, etc. p. 21. And before I came at the Bar, I was moved to Pray, and the Thundering Voice answered, I have glorified thee, and will glorify thee again. I marvel that Whitehead should have the Face to appear in Print with no better Proof that Fox owned Jesus of Nazareth. Surely he may well be ashamed to appear before any Men of sense, to Justify these his Abominations. And so much briefly for what Fox says of himself, and what Whitehead brings to excuse him.   

The Quakers Adoring Geo. Fox, etc.  
Fifth Part of the Christian Quaker disting. etc. p. 77. That G. Fox is blessed with Honour above many Brethren, and that Thousands will stand by him in a Heavenly Record, That his Life Reigns, and is spotless, Innocent, and still retains his Integrity; whose Eternal Honour, and Blessed Renown shall remain; yea, his Presence, and the dropping of his tender words in the Lord's love was my Soul's Nourishment. The Quakers Challenge, etc. p. 6. Stand up, Muggleton— who callest thy Book, A Looking-Glass for Geo. Fox, whose Name thou art not worthy to take into thy mouth; who is a Prophet indeed, and hath been Faithful in the Lord's business from the beginning. It was said of Christ, that he was in the World, and the World knew him not 
* Here G. F. and Sol. Eccles agree; G. F. said, The world neither knew him, nor his Name; mark what Idolatry & Blasphemy is here. . So it may be said of this true Prophet, whom John said he was not. But thou shalt feel this Prophet [i. e. G. F.] one day as heavy as a Millstone upon thee; And although the World knows him not, yet he is known, etc.  
Josiah Cole's Letter, wrote from Barbadoes, 21 of the twelfth Month, 1658. to Geo. Fox, and vindicated by William Penn, in their Book Judas and the Jews, etc. p. 44. viz. Dear Geo. Fox, who art the Father of many Nations, whose Life hath reached through us thy Children, even to the Isles afar off, to the begetting many again to a lively hope, for which Generations to come shall call thee Blessed; whose Being and Habitation is in the Power of the Highest, in which thou Rules and Governs in Righteousness: And thy Kingdom is Established in Peace, and the Increase thereof is without end.  
John Audland's Letter out of the Well of England, (which was Printed before G. F. died) taken out of the Original (which we have) an Abstract thereof is as followeth, viz. Dear and Precious One, in whom my Life is bound up, my Strength in thee stand; by thy Breathe I am nourished, by thee my Strength is renewed, Life and Strength came from thee, Holy ONE: Daily do I find thy Presence with me, which doth exceedingly preserve me, for I cannot Reign but in thy Presence and Power. Pray for me, that I may stand in thy dread for evermore. I am thine, begotten and nourished by thee, and in thy Power am I preserved. Glory unto thee, Holy One, for ever. See this Blasphemous Letter more at large in The Discovery of the Accursed Thing, by T. C.  
I remember when I charged the Quakers in my Sheet to the Parliament, Dec. 1693. p. 4. with their Contempt of the Public Ministry, out of their Book, A Brief Discovery, etc. calling them (as false Ministers) Witches, Devils, etc. First, Geo. Whitehead, in The Quak. Vind. p. 2. Col. 2. denies that he knew the Book; and yet I find in his Just Enquiry, etc. p. 13. Printed ten Months before that, he could Answer it, tell the Title, Date, and number of Subscribers, namely, five; saying, But stay, soft a little, were these Characters given in general, or to all other Ministers that are not of us? No sure. In their Vindication, etc. delivered to the Parliament, pag. 2. Col. 2. though he denied to know the Book, yet he then could say, Yet his charging us with Contempt of the Public Ministry, is too general, and harsh; we Charitably distinguish between the more moderate sort and the rigged Persecutors, etc. Well, let us see whether G. Whitehead be sincere: He cries soft a little in one Book, and pretends Charitably to distinguish in the other Book: So that a stranger would think him very fair, at least tolerable. But to prove him deceitful, and that they give those Contemptuous Language to all Ministers, nor Quakers, I shall make appear, for the Title over the Names is, Of the False Ministers. And therefore the way to find out G. W. is to Examine, First, who they account False Ministers; and, Secondly, what Names they are pleased to bestow upon them.   

First, Who the Quakers Account False Ministers.  
1. G. Fox his primer, p. 84. Scholar. Who have been the Ministers and Instructors of the People, that they are erred so from Scripture-Example? Let me have some Marks and Signs, by which I may know the Deceivers and False Prophets, etc. Geo. Fox gives his Scholar Ten Instances against the Clergy, one is this, namely, They are such as sprinkle Infants, and tell People, it is an Ordinance of Christ.  
2. Smith's primer. etc. p. 8. Scholar How may I know when Christ is truly Preached? Answ. They that are False (Ministers) Preach Christ without, and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above; but they that are Christ's Ministers, Preach Christ within.  
3. Saul's Errand to Damascus, etc. p. 7. All that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead, to raise the Spirit out of the Letter, are Conjurers: And the Lord is against all such, and who are of God are against all such.  
4. The Quakers Challenge, etc. p. 2. Come, Protestants, Presbyterians, Independants, and Baptists, etc. the Quakers deny you all, p. 3. The Quakers are in the Truth, and none but they.  
5. The Guide Mistaken, etc. by W. Penn, p. 18. And whilst the Idle, Gormandizing Priests of England run away with above 1500000 l. a Year, under pretence of being God's Ministers; and that no sort of People have been so Universally through Ages the bane of Soul and Body of the Universe, as that abominable Tribe, for whom the Theatre of God's most Dreadful Vengeance is reserved to Act their Eternal Tragedy upon, etc.  
6. An Antidote, by Thomas Ellwood, p. 78. Truth allows of no Payment of Tithes at all under the New Covenant: They who Pay Tithes, uphold a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ, and thereby deny Christ to be come in the Flesh, which is a mark of Antichrist.  
I think I need not enlarge on this Point, for all that sprinkle Children with Water, all that Preach Christ without, as he is in Heaven above at the Right Hand of God, all that Preach out of the Scripture, all that are Ministers, and not Quakers, all that Pay Tithes, or receive Tithes, are of that abominable Tribe, for whom God's Dreadful Vengeance is reserved, etc. In fine, all, not Quakers, are False Ministers, by the Doctrine of the Quakers. And now it remains to show what the Quakers call them in their Book, A Brief Discovery of a Threefold Estate of Antichrist, etc. under the Tithes, as in p. 7, 8, 9, 10. Viz.   

Of the False Ministry.  
The Priests of the World are, I. Conjurers, raising dead Doctrine, dead Uses, dead Motives, dead Reasons out of the Letter, which is Death; raising Death out of Death, notable Conjurers. II. Thiefs and Robbers. III. Antichrists, the Priests of Baal, cannot show any Scripture for their Heathenish ways, and Bestial Worships. IU Witches, blind Guides. V Devils, the Serpent is Head in them. VI Liars, the Commission and Call of Baal's Priests, Come from Oxford and Cambridge, which they call the Wellhead of Divinity; corrupt Streams issue from thence I can witness [fetching the same Commodities] drinking a Cup of the same Poisonous Fountain; the Fountain is bitter, the Streams are no better. Even the Sir Symons of the Age run to Oxford and Cambridge: These are not Ministers of Christ, but Stewards of the Devil's Magazine, Dissemblers and Liars. VII. A Viperous and Serpentine Generation, going about to Murder and Strangle the Child Jesus, holding a Worm-eaten, Beastly Form. VIII. Blasphemers, yea, of the Devil, fearful Blasphemers. IX. Scarlet-coloured Beasts: A Harlot full of Abominations and Filthiness. X Babylon's Merchants, Selling Beastly Wares for a large Price; the Letter, which is Dust and Death: The day is coming when these Idol Merchants, these costly Sermon-makers, shall cry, etc. XI. Whited Walls, professing nothing but Poisonous stuff. XII. Ravenous Wolves. XIII. Greedy Dogs, really they are Bloodhounds, still hunting and gasping after their Prey, like the mouth of Hell; barking and raging like Sodomites. XIV. Eminent and Ambitious Pharisees of the Devil; woe, wo, wo, was the Portion of these Pharisees then, and woe, wo, wo, is their Portion now: And woe and misery is the Portion of the upholders (whether King or Parliament) of that Treacherous and Deceitful Generation, etc. Come, G. W. you say, Soft a little, we Charitably distinguish, etc. But now your Spirit, your Principles and Practice by your Books, are found out; and the Reason why you refuse to meet me, according to your Proposal, is now found out; for you know you must either Justify these your Antichristian and abominable Books, or Condemn them; Condemn them you will not, for that they are given forth by your great Apostle G. F. and his Disciples, and (as you say) by the Eternal, Infallible Spirit of God, for then down goes your Infallibility, and great will be the fall thereof. Justify them, you cannot; for if you tell them these say came from Heaven, they'll tell you they came from Hell; so that here is a Gulf between you and them: You may fret and fume, rage and rail, invert, pervert, gloss, and paint, but all to no purpose; I have hemmed you up, and cast a Trench about you, and taken you as in a Net, and resolve to hold you fast; for I will not leave the decision of our Controversy to Quakers, Ranters, Muggletonians, nor to your Grandsire the Pope. Come, G. W. I have not done with you yet; you say, The Quak. Vind. p. 2. As for Baptism and the Lord's Supper, Scripturally considered, we confess and own, etc. But, may some say, how is this possible, who have not baptised any with Water, nor received the Sacrament, under the Elements of Bread and Wine, these 40 years? Answ. Let me Interpret their meaning, which I take to be thus: They own them Scripturally, that is, as they own the Scriptures, they own the Sacraments; also upon the same Hypothesis, they may say, they own the Scriptures Sacramentally, viz. as they own the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, when alas, they own neither, no otherwise than Arius owned the Faith of one Substance; who, when at the demand of the Emperor, he signed the Nicene Creed, who beforehand wrote his own Opinion in a piece of Paper, and put it in his Bosom under his Coat; and coming to the Book, he takes his Oath, that he verily believed as he had written, meaning as he had written in the Paper under his Coat. In like manner the Quakers confess and own the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Scripturally; that is, as they have written in their own Books. And I pray, may some say, how is that? For Answer, you may see the same Juggle, read News coming up, etc. p. 14. So dust is the Serpent's meat, their Original is but dust, which is but the Letter, which is Death; and their Gospel is dust, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, which is the Letter. Thus than they own the Scriptures Sacramentally, viz. to be Dust, Death, and Serpent's meat. And I will show you how they own and confess the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper Scripturally, viz. as they own the Scriptures; for Proof thereof, see a Book of their own writing (only they are not so cunning as Arius, for he never Printed his Paper,) I say, see News coming up, etc. p. 34. A Voice to all you deceivers, who deceive the People; and Blasphemers, who utter forth your Blasphemies and Hypocrisies, that tell People of a Sacrament, and tell them it is the Ordinance 〈◊〉 God. Blush, Blush and Tremble you who live in the Witchery, and bewitch the People 〈◊〉 Thus Reader, I have showed how they own the Lord's Supper Scripturally, and the Scripture Sacramentally; which though they have Printed the same, yet they are as loath to show their Books of this kind to Authority, as Arius was his Paper, yet Arius could never pretend fairer to the Emperor, than G. Whitehead, in the Quak. Vind. etc. did to the Parliament: The like might be said about their owning the Fast commanded by Authority, p. 3. of their Vind. For the Intent, Substance, and End of a true Fast, this we are frequently mindful of, etc. Oh deceit! when 'tis generally known through the Nation, that on the days set apart by Authority for a Fast, they follow their outward Callings, open their Shops, and not so much as appoint a Meeting for that end, as others have done. I have not room to show the depth of Hypocrisy in this Whitehead; 'tis like his Pretence (of late Years) of owning the Scriptures, and preferring them before all the Books in the World, but he means Sacramentally. If he deny my Interpretation of their Reserves, then let him show me that any one Quaker in England of the Foxonian Tribe, in Print hath recommended the Reading of the Scripture in their Religious Meetings [if such I may call them,] As they frequently do their own Epistles; for instance, see Geo. Whitehead's Epistle for the Remnant of Friends, etc. where he concludes thus: Let this [Epistle] be Read distinctly 
* Here must not be a Syllable mistaken, for it came from Heaven in the Quakers: And yet I question it, for in pag. 12. he compares the Sufferings of the Quakers to the Sufferings of Christ, like his Brother Burroughs. E. B's. Works.  in the Life and Authority of God, from whence it came, amongst Friends in and about London, and elsewhere, as Friends are moved in the same Life, etc. To this Instance let me add Whitehead's Doctrine, in his Book, A Serious Apology, etc. p. 49. That what is spoken by the Spirit of Truth in any (meaning the Quakers) is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are, and greater. And for further Proof that they value their own Pamphlets above the Scripture, see New Rome Arraigned, etc. Introd. 10 Instances, etc. p. 40. to 47. And Quakerism withering, etc. p. 32. to 44. By which I have proved both from Matter of Fact and Practice, what I charge them with, beyond all their glozing.  
And now I am leaving G. W. I apply myself to the Hearers amongst the Quakers, and do Solemnly profess, that I never wrote one Book out of Malice, as he suggests; and as may appear in every Book, by the Proposals and Offers I therein make. But if you do not call out G. W. and cause him to stand to his Proposal, or else condemn and censure his Errors, and the Errors in your Friends Books, by him vindicated, under 12, or more of your hands, I do purpose, if the Lord permit, to proceed to a Brief History of the Rise, Growth, and Progress of Quakerism, from the Year 1650. to 1695. And the Projects of G. Fox, the Founder of Quakerism. And wherein their Principles are Antichristian, Antimagistratical, Irrational, Unreasonable, Tending to subvert the Christian Faith, to introduce Mahumetism, Atheism, etc. And to show that their Faith and Doctrine is contrary to that of the Primitive Christians, Saints, and Martyrs in all Ages. First, in denying Jesus of Nazareth, contemning the Scriptures, reviling the Magistrates, reproaching the Ministers of the Gospel, undervaluing the Death and Sufferings of Christ, and exalting their own [of which many are mere Cheats, particularly Sam Cater's 
* See New Rome un●●●●… 57 , who is recorded to have suffered 20 l. where he never lost a groat, but had 10 l. sent him from London; so that instead of losing 20 l. for Preaching, he got 10 l. clear; and many other things which may occur, which may be prevented by a sincere Retractation. And let not G. W's. Cunning, and smooth, and demure Carriage prevent you from Condemning what is Erroneous; for though he study no Events, nor fear no Effects, as he says, yet I would have you be wiser. For whatever you think (as some of his Friends have told him in Berkshire to his Face) 'tis he that hath been the chief disturber; 'tis he that hath poisoned the minds of many well-meaning People, 'tis his false glozing, and base perverting, that hath drawn the edge of my Pen against you; and if you will stand by him, and not, like the Wise Woman of Abel, bring him forth, nor condemn his Errors, etc. my Hand will be still heavier upon you, if God permit me length of days, and the assistance of his Holy Spirit. For I do tell you, his Impudence hath exceeded all that ever I read of, none exceed him in perverting and false glozing. And if this Answer had not come out, I was minded by a quarter of a Sheet to give you a second Summons, whether you hear or forbear. For I find G. W. will not come forth himself, he feareth the Fate of Hungate the Jesuit against Hall. See New Rome unmasked, etc. p. 33. to 49. Oh Friends! for so I can call many of you, I am grieved to see you willingly ignorant; and as I have already, so I could still take great pains to inform you of the subtle working of some of your Juggling Teachers, whose Books are of two sorts, and carry two faces, as I have often said; saying one while, that the Scriptures are Death, Dust, Serpent's Meat, Beastly Ware, etc. yea, so uncertain, that whether Moses or Hermes be the first Penman is doubtful: But your Bellarmine G.W. to serve a turn, told the Parliament in your Vind. etc. that the Quakers believed it to be given by Divine Inspiration. Now, Friends, one of these Books, which teach thus contrary to each other, must be wrong; then let it be condemned. Again, G. W. says, you prefer the Scriptures before all Books extant; and yet he himself teach by his Serious Apology, p. 49. That what is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any, is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are, and greater, etc. And now you shall see how by Practice he prefers his own Writings before the Scripture, for he never recommended a Chapter of the Bible to be read in their Meetings of Worship: But you shall see how he imposeth the Reading his own, and you, poor hearts, are obliged to hear it read, viz. An Epistle for the Remnant of Friends, by G. Whitehead, which concludes thus: Let this [Epistle] be read distinctly in the Life and Authority of God, from whence it came, amongst Friends in and about London, etc. Now I appeal to your Consciences, which does G. W. prefer think-ye? Again, G. Fox, in Answer to C. W. Great Mist. p. 246. said, The Scriptures are not the Word of God, as thou Blasphemously affirmed; when upon his own Epistle he set this Encomium, This is the Word of the Lord God to you, all. Again, Several Papers given forth by G. Fox, he there tells his Friends, This is the Word of the Lord: I charge you in the Presence of the Living God, to send this [Epistle] amongst all Friends and Brethren every where, to be read in all Metetings: To them all this is the Word of God, etc. Oh Friends! when did ever G. Fox say so of the Scriptures? No, he is so far from that, that he says, 'Tis Blasphemy to call the Scriptures the Word of God. Pray mark the irreconcilable Difference, and yet your Bellarmine, G. W. had the Face to tell the Parliament they prefer the Scriptures before all Books in the World. Oh horrible Impudence! Again, see your Book, Truth's Defence, etc. p. 2. 104. where they Teach, you may as well burn the Scriptures as their Writings; and their Convocation, or London Yearly Meeting, 1675. confirm them by Decree, saying, It is our Judgement in the Fear of God, and Authority of his Power, that no such slight Names, edicts or Cannons, be put upon Friends Papers, which we Testify have been given forth by the Spirit of God, etc. Now, when did they ever send out a Decree, that no such slight Names and Expressions, as Dust, Death, Serpent's Meat, Beastly Ware, Carnal Letter, Husk, etc. should be cast upon the Scriptures? No, no, they were so far from that, that the very Men that gave the Scriptures these contemptuous Names, sent out this Preservative for their own Books, Papers, and Queries. Oh, Friends! what do you think of G. W. Is he not made up of Impudence? The Difference is so great between the value they put upon their own Books, and that upon the Scriptures, that it can never be reconciled, nor Satisfaction made to them that tender the Glory of God, and the good of Souls with grateful Hearts for his Goodness in continuing the Bible to us through all Ages, but by Condemning the one sort of the Quakers Books to the Fire, as Oxford lately did a Book of the same Nature. Why then will you not bring forth Sheba, the Son of Bichri, that Man of Belial? G.W. Is there not a Wise Man amongst you? He tells you that I wrong the Quakers in Charge, Citation, and Observation. Bring him forth according to his Proposal, and you will see it proved that I have not. I have given you a few Instances, I might produce a hundred more, but time would fail. G. W. hath wrote to divers Clergymen to prevail with me to desist; they give me his Letters, and wish me good Success. Two of your Teachers have been with me within these two Months past, and used many Arguments with me; I tell them all is in vain, unless they bring forth Sheba. And so I say still, or else come forth yourselves, and condemn what is Erroneous, and defend what is Sound and Orthodox. And so I conclude, and subscribe myself your Friend in what I am able to do,   
Milden-Hall, Aug. 20. 1695. Francis Bugg, Senior.   

LONDON: Printed for the Author, and are to be Sold by John Gwillam, Bookseller in Bishopsgate-street. 1695.