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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng 2004-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2004-12 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-01 Jonathan Blaney Sampled and proofread 2005-01 Jonathan Blaney Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-04 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Brief Answer to F. Bugg's Brief Reply to the Considerations Humbly Offered by the People call'd Quakers , Relating to the Bill for Restraining the Licentiousness of the Press . IT has been the known Practice of the said F. B. of late Years , not only to Buisy himself to Interrupt our Applications to the Parliament , by his Abusive Pamphlets , but now strives to have us debarred of the Liberty of the Press , that he may more easily Misrepresent our Christian Profession , and Calumniate us without Detection , as appears in his said pretended Reply ; and therefore the more Necessity that we ( the said People ) should not be debarred of the Press for our Just Defence , according to Holy Scripture , that we may not be Defamed ( in our Christian Reputation ) as Seditious or Blasphemous . According to his usual Method , he begins with a perverted Quotation upon our Considerations , thus , viz. [ Yet , say they , to Limit the Press , we conceive Vnsafe . ] Instead of [ to Limit Religious Books to a License , &c. ] Thus he stumbles at the Threshold , and Imposes on the Reader . And as false it is , That the Quakers are Guilty of Printing and Publishing Seditious and Scandalous Pamphlets ; and as unjustly Inferred , that therefore a Restraint on them they think Vnsafe . 1. Of Kingly Government , about Earthly Kings , &c. he gives Curtailed and Broken Quotations , but not the Dates of the several Papers , he mentions , which ( however Perverted ) we take the General Import thereof to mean , That our Lord Jesus Christ is King over true Christians Consciences , and his own Spiritual Kingdom ( which is not of this World ) and not Earthly or Persecuting Kings , as are mention'd . 2. Of Parliaments ; We find not F. Howgill fairly Quoted , but grossly Abused , by leaving out what he saith for the good Intention of Parliaments . And is it reasonable we should Answer for the Opinion of the Council of Officers ( against the House of Lords ) in the Common-wealths days , or what any one told them thereof ? * Or is it a good Argument , that because the Corruption and Bad Lives of Earthly Kings and Governments , as also their Ends , are upon Record both in History and Sacred Writ , that therefore all such History and Writings ( or Citations out of them ) are Seditious ? Or because some have Writ against the Oppression of former Persecuting Kings and Parliaments , were it a good Inference that therefore the Quakers ought not to have Liberty of the Press to Defend their Religious Perswasion , Christian Profession or Innocency ? when they have not the least Design of Sedition or Scandal against the Civil Government , or Constitution of Parliaments ; tho' to tell of Respect of Persons , and not Equality in Chosing Members , be Quoted as Seditious , yet it is no new thing ; Undue and Partial Elections not unknown to Parliaments , who have Endeavoured to Reform the same . 3. Of the Holy Trinity ; Thereby being meant , that , in the Deity , there are Three Bearing Witness in Heaven , the Father , the Word , and the Spirit , i. e. the Father , the Son , and the Holy Ghost , which are One God Blessed for ever , the Scripture Terms thereof are not Questioned , but owned by the People called Quakers , * what Disputes or Reflections soever have been ( about Vnscriptural Terms and Distinctions ) they were never by any of us applied or intended against the Blessed Deity or Divinity of Father , Son , or Holy Ghost . 4. Of Christ our Blessed Lord , the Eternal Son , or Word of God , his Body that Dyed , is called in Scripture the Body of Jesus ; and 't is said he Suffered and was put to Death in the Flesh , 1 Pet. 3. 18. Not in his Divine Nature , for that never Dyed . This was W. P's . Sense , * That the True Ministers do not Preach Christ without Only , as he is in Heaven ( and Glory ) above , but also as he is in Men's Hearts , is an Undeniable Christian Doctrine . The Word Only being omitted ( in one Edition of William Smith's Primmar ) is made an Accusation against us ( as if we denied Jesus to be Christ ) tho' the same Word Only be inserted in his Works in the same place . Thus unfair is this Adversary . 5. Concerning the Holy Scriptures . We Hope our preferring Christ the Word , and his Spirit to the Letter of the Scripture , and yet owning the Holy Scriptures to be given by Divine Inspiration , and preferring them before all other Books , may not be Offensive , or render us Uncapable of the Liberty of the Press , or of our Consciences . If one should Argue thus against us , Some of your Antient Friends Writings are Perverted and Misconstrued , ( and thereby made Offensive ) therefore you must Write no more : Or , some of you have spoken something amiss , or that Offends Vs , therefore you must never speak more . Would this be fairly Argued ? Yet we don't see our Adversary make better Work on 't against Us. Under the Title of the Holy Scriptures , F. B. sets , the Letter is Death - Beastly Wares , &c. as if the Quakers so Term the Holy Scriptures Beastly Wares ( Oh! Horrible ) ; this has been often Charged upon him , and Refuted as a gross Slander and Forgery , and not found applied to the Scriptures in his own Quotation ; tho' he persists repeating the same , and in such foul Aspersions , as , that the Quakers Vilify the Scripture , Blaspheme the Blessed Trinity , Reproach Christ's Ministers . ( But , F. B. didst thou so , when a Quaker 25 years ? ) Boldly in Print tell the World , that such as turn from them , and Imbrace the Christian Faith , are the worst of Apostates , worse than Francis Spira and Julian the Apostate . Quoting John Whiting's Book , [ Judas and the Chief Priests , ] Preface and p. 5 , 6. wherein F. B. Notoriously Wrongs both the People called Quakers , and J. W. also , who never told the World so . And to his Charging the said J. W. with false Stories of G. Keith ; J. W. saith , he has several Certificates to prove the Truth of what he related concerning G. K. in his Preface , under the Hands of such as were Witnesses of the same , ready to Produce as Occasion may offer . His Story by the Fire side against Edward Dikes , Junior , of Bury St. Edmonds , and his Constructions on the Words We and You , are so Ridiculous that it is not worth insisting on . He again Clamours out their Blasphemies ( against the Quakers ) upon a Passage Aledged against our Deceased Friend Edward Burroughs , terming him as Horrible an Impostor as Mahomet , about the Sufferings of the People of God ; which yet ( he saith ) he could never find any of them so Defend ; tho' the same be fully Answered and Explain'd in Vind. Verit. p. 206. F. B's . Story of G. F. hiring Two Jews for 80 l. we reject as his own Forgery . But no better Treatment , or Manner of Answering , do we expect from a Mercinary Scribbler , than Reiterated Perversion , Forgery , Curtalizing and Confounding Quotations , whereby the Best of People and Books have been grosly Misrepresented . Therefore the more Need of the Liberty of the Press for Just Vindication . Passing by several other Abuses and Falshoods , for Brevity sake , we Refer the Reader to our following Answers to F. B's . Books , &c. viz. 1. Judgment Fixed . Printed 1682. 2. The Quakers Answer to a Scandalous Libel . 1690. 3. Innocence against Envy . 1681. 4. The Contentious Apostate , and his Blow Refelled . 1691. 5. The Contentious Apostate Recharged . 6. A Charitable Essay , in order to allay the Outrage of a Contentious Apostate . 1693. 7. The Quakers Vindication against Francis Bugg's Calumnies , 1693. 8. Innocency Triumphant over Insolency and Outrage , 1693. 9. A Just Enquiry into the Libellers Abuse , 1693. 10. The Counterfeit Convert , a Scandal to Christianity , 1694. 11. An Answer to Fra. Bugg's Presumptious Impeachment , 1695. 12. A Sober Expostulation with some of the Clergy , against their Pretended Convert Francis Bugg his repeated gross Abuse of the People called Quakers , 1697. 13. A Rambling Pilgrim , or Prophane Apostate Exposed . [ Wherein he is Detected of gross Calumny , Forgery and Propaneness . ] 14. A Just Censure of Francis Bugg's Address to the Parliament , against the Quakers . For the said Books Enquire of T. Sowle , Bookseller , in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street , London . By G. Whitehead , And others Concerned . A Brief ANSWER to Francis Bugg's Reply , to the Quaker's Considerations Humbly Offered . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A65841-e10 * See Truth and Innocency , pag. 64. * See Rambling Pilgrim , p. 45 , 46. * See Truth and Innocency , p. 71 , 72. And D. P ' s. Vindic. Verit. p. 89 , to 110.