A brief reply to two papers given into the House of Lords since my book was given in the one call'd The Christian faith, &c. signed by G. Whitehead and 17 more, the other stil'd The Ancient testimony, &c. not signed at all : in the first to the Lords the Quakers declare. That they believe in and confess to Jesus Christ ... Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724? 1696 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A77767 Wing B5368A ESTC R173211 45789186 ocm 45789186 172500 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. 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Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2008-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-08 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A BRIEF REPLY To Two Papers given into the House of Lords , since my Book was given in : The one call'd The Christian Faith , &c. Signed by G. Whitehead and 17 more , the other stil'd The Ancient Testimony , &c. not Signed at all In the First to the Lords the QUAKERS declare . That they believe in and confess to Jesus Christ , both as he is true God and perfect Man. 2ly . That they own the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration , &c. Next followeth their contempt of Christ and the Scriptures , which shews the fallaciousness of their now pretending to own them . A Quest . to Professors , &c. p. 33. Now the Scriptures do expresly distinguish between CHRIST and the GARMENT which he wore between HIM , that came , and the BODY in which HE came ; between the SUBSTANCE which was VAILED , and the Vail which vailed it : There was plainly HE ( say the Quakers ) and the BODY in which HE came ; there was the OUTWARD VESSEL and the INWARD LIFE , this WE CERTAINLY know , and can never call the BODILY Garment Christ : But that which appeared and dwelt IN the Body , p. 27. is not the Substance the Life , the Anointing called Christ where-ever it is found : And doth not the Name ( Christ ) belong to the whole Body ; and every Member in the Body ; as well as to the Head , &c. The Sword of the Lord drawn , &c. pag. 5. Your imagined God beyond the Stars ; and your carnal Christ is utterly denied , and testified against by the light ; To say that Christ is God and Man in one Person , it is a Lye ; for more of this , see The Quak. set , &c. p. 43. to the end : News coming up , &c. p. 14. Your word is carnal the Letter ; so dust is the Serpents meat ; their Original is but dust , which is but the Letter , which is Death ; so the Serpent feeds upon dust : And their Gospel is dust , Matthew , Mark , Luke and John , which is but the Letter , &c. as more at large in the Quak. set . &c. p. 46. If any object on their behalf , and say ; possibly these Passages might be wrot in their mistaken Zeal ; but if they 'll now retract and condemn the same ; and steadfastly own their New Confession ; might not their former errors be buried in Oblivion . Answ . That 's granted , for who is it that hath not erred : But if they shall prove pertenacious , and stand to maintain & defend those errors , as wrot by the Eternal Spirit and Infallible dictates thereof ; then 't is the duty of every Christian to reject their counterfeit confessions ; which they make use of to serve a turn only . As to the second Paper not signed , it seems fallacious from top to bottom ; for what credit can be given to a Paper not signed , only said to be given out at a Meeting in London . The King's Proclamations are said to be given out at his Court at Whitehall , but not without his Name W. Rex . But it seems the Quakers conceive themselves of that Credit , that they need not Sign their Papers ; that 's below them : Or else it must be to leave room for an excuse , when time serve : I grant they say they pray for the King , but what King they do not tell ; No ? that 's a secret ; they also say , they cannot Sign the Association , and thereby declare the King their Rightful and Lawful King for Conscience sake : And yet they tell you that their not Signing , is not in opposition to his being declared the Rightful and Lawful King ; who says so ? no body ; for there is no Name to it , nor from what Meeting it was given out ; whether Yearly , or Quarterly , the Six Week Meeting , Monthly , or second day Meeting ; or whether from 2 or 3 Quakers under the Hedge . Again , You cannot Sign the Association , in regard you cannot take revenge for your selves nor others : That 's strange , was there not lately a Quaker murthered on the Road , between Kingstand and Shoreditch ; and did you not proffer 50 l. Reward for the Discovery of the Person , which did it ; was he not found and tryed at the Old Bayly , and hang'd in Chains near Stone-Bridge ; and all this Prosecution by Quakers : And can you revenge your selves of the Blood of a private Person ; and can you not Sign the Association to avenge the Blood of your Prince , for Conscience sake : Are your Consciences so nice that you can neither say nor do ; any thing for the Publick Good , what can you receive benefit and protection from the Government ; and can you not defend it for Conscience sake : You may remember how frequent it was with you to Address the Late King James : And also you know , you never made an Address to His Present Majesty , see New Rome Unmask'd , &c. p. 27. No , your Conscience will not allow you , neither to Address , Sign the Sociation , nor Sign your Paper , wherein you pretend to pay some kind of Respect for the Liberty you enjoy : You could tell Richard Cromwell , that if he chose the Lord to be his Counsellor , he should prosper ; and that you would be a strength to him , and stand by him in the day of trouble , and DEFEND him in his just Government , &c. for more of this , see Burrough's Works p. 252. 273. 274. But you cannot Sign the Association , and thereby stand by and Defend King William , for Conscience sake ; what Conscience is yours , that thus differ from the Lords and Commons , and all other Dutiful Subjects of our Sovereign Lord the King 5 or has no Body any Conscience but you , Signed in Concurrence with the Loyal Association by me FRA. BUGG . Senior . Dated March 27. 1696. IN answer to the Quakers Printed Case concerning Swearing , &c. And to shew that the Heads and Chief Ring-leaders of them can Swear for their own Interest , I shall give one Instance , amongst many others , which may be produced in the Courts of Equity . George Whitehead the great promoter of this Act , had a Bill exhibited against him in the Lord Majors Court of Equity , by Tho. Daniel and Eliz. his Wise the 9th . day of April 1695. to which he gave his Answer upon Oath , as Followeth , GEORGE WHITEHEAD'S OATH . You do Swear that so much of this your Answer as you set forth , to be of your own knowledge , is certain and true . And so much thereof as you set forth to be by relation of others you do believe to be true . So help you God. This Oath , in open Court , was read to him , the Book being put to his Mouth , he submitted to it without gain-saying , and it was accepted and remains upon Record . By which it appears that they have no cause of complaint .