Envy and folly detected by way of a reply to a scandalous pamphlet, lately published by Robert Bridgeman (a grocer in London) intituled, Folly and envy detected, &c. : being a vindication of the true Christian Quakers : also something to a paper signed by J. Vaughton, J. Field, Ch. Marshall, W. Bingly, and others, being in number 24, and pretended Quakers, lately published in the City mercury, &c. : to which is added, nineteen queries to R.B. and his 24 brethren, &c. / by G.C. and E.N., lovers of all men.

POSTSCRIPT.

WE Refer our Reader (to a Treatise) Titled, The Christian Faith of the People of God, call'd Quakers in Rode Island, (in which may be seen what the true Christian Quakers Faith is, and that they are not ashamed to Confess it to the whole World.

Also 19. Queries by way of a further Reply, to a Paper published by J. Vaughton, J. Feilde, Ch. Marshal, Will. Bingly, and others; being in number Twenty four, and also to their Brother R. B. which make their number to be Twenty five. Seeing thou R. B. and thy Twenty four Brethren have taken upon you the Guilt of those Errors, and horrid Blasphemies of your Brethren char∣ged on them by F. Bugg. we have here added these following Queries, desiring you to answer them, or abandon the Name of Christian Quaker, that you would seem to take on you, which cannot be allowed you by any rational Man, while you cover and cloak such vile Errors, &c.

Q. 1. How dared you espouse those gross Er∣rors of Tho Fitzwater, R. Young, and T. Lloyd, viz. O God that died in us, and laid down thy Life in us, and took it up again; and that when Christ ascen∣ded he was separated from his Body, that Faith in Christ without us, as he died for our sins, and rose again, was not necessary to our Salvation.

Q. 2. Had it not been better for you, ra∣ther to have given out a Christian Testimony against them, for their said Blasphemous Expres∣sions, and against S. Jennings and others Persecu∣tions of G. Keith, T. Budd, &c.

Q. 3. Why do you not answer F. Buggs first Charge, who saith the Quakers denied him, Who was born of the Virgin Mary, who suffered Death upon the Cross at Jerusalem, who rose a∣gain the Third day, and ascended into Heaven, in the sight of the Galileans to be Christ the Saviour of the World. Seeing D. S. clears the true Chri∣stian Quakers of this gross Charge, it lyeth at your Door to clear your selves thereof if you are able.

Q. 4. Why do you not answer his second Charge, who say, They deny the Scriptures, by speaking contemptuously of them, &c. D. S. have also cleared the Christian Quakers thereof, therefore it lyeth at your Door, to clear your selves and others of your Brethren if you can.

Q. 5. Why do you not answer F. B's third Charge, who says, Their Teachers are Deceivers of the People, Favourers of Blasphemy, and of differing Faith from the Apostles, Primitive Chri∣stians, and Blessed Martyrs and Excusers of Idola∣try, and that their Doctrine tends to overthrow the Christian Faith. D. S. have cleared his Christi∣an Friends of this gross Charge, therefore you are left to answer for your Selves and Bre∣thren.

Q. 6. Why do not you answer F. Buggs Charge against you, who accuseth the Quakers for teaching, That the Name of Jesus Christ, do not properly belong to the Body that suffered upon the Cross at Jerusalem, &c, D. S. condemns this Error on behalf of the Christian Quakers, but you having taken it upon your selves, by blam∣ing D. S. for so doing it lyeth now at your Door.

Q. 7. Why do not you answer the ten Que∣ries, published by R. Hannay: your Champion T. Elwood, having not done it.

Q. 8. Whether thou R. Bridgman, and thy Twenty four Brethren doth intend to follow the Footsteps of your Apostate Brethren in Pensilvania, the Twenty eight false Judges, in condemning and denying of G. Keith, and his Christian Friends; for, or because of their Christian Doctrine and Principles.

Q. 9. Seeing some of you Twenty four Sub∣scribers have confessed, that you had not read the Little Book signed by D. S. how dared you to Sign a Paper against it barely on Trust, is not this believing as the Church believes Rome, like, &c.

Q. 10. Is it not greater Presumption in you to publish a Paper in order to make the Body of the Christian Quakers equally Guilty of those grand Errors with your selves; than for D. S. to clear the Body, and only blame the Guilty.

Q. 11. Whether you do approve (and in∣tend to follow that Anti-Christian Practice) of your Brethrens denying The Christian Quakers, their Right of burying their Dead, as we hear was lately done in Southwark, by some of your Apostate Brethren, James Braithwait and o∣thers, &c.

Q. 12. Wherefore did you Twenty four Apostate Quakers, be so bold as to call the Sheet signed by D. S. a Libel, and yet doth not un∣dertake to prove one Paragraph to be such, doubtless some of you have Confidence enough to make Truth seem to be a Lye, and Dark∣ness Light, if your Master the D—l had but furnished you his Craft so to do.—

Q. 13. Seeing thou R. B. have confessed in private, that thou hast quibled, (in thy Scan∣dalous Pamphlet) had it not been rather more like a Christian, for thee, and also for thy Twenty four Brethren, to have confest your own and Brethrens Errors, endeavouring to forsake the same; desiring God's Forgiveness for Christ's sake, than to continue to cover and cloak such damnable Errors, as no Protestant Society will tollerate.

Q. 14. Is not R. B. guilty of Envy, and Out-rage against D. S. For confessing and dis∣owning those gross Errors, again R. B. in his Twelve and thirteenth Pages would insinuate, that he is very Charitable to D. S. in that he, viz. D. S. do give cause to charge him, as que∣stioning

a future Existance, or Being from D. S's. charitable saying of Is. Pennington, if that worthy Man were in being, &c. now its evident D. S. could not mean any other Being but in this Life, unless this R. B. S. Divinity allow of Retraction, or Recantation in the Life immortal, which is erroneous, for although there be a future Being, yet no Being for Re∣traction, &c. R. B. says, That he may positively charge D. S. that he denies a future Existance, is not this positively Unchristian in R. B. and may not we by the same rule Charge him to hold a Purga∣tory, &c.

Q. 15. Art not thou R. Bridgman Guilty of Envy, for falsly charging (in thy Fifeteenth page) D. S. as wanting Christianity, because he confest G. Whitehead was a contentious Scribler, and Guilty of giving base and scurrilous Lan∣guage, on no other Evidence says R. B. but that of F. B. but to prove this Envy and Folly of R. B's, let the Reader see for himself, the filthy Language of (R. B's. Elder) G. Whitehead given in his Book Judgment fixed, also see the Billings-gate Rhethorick, in a Book called The Accuser of of the Brethren, &c. allow R. B. his Conces∣sion (viz. G. Whitehead to be an Elder) ought he not therefore to be reproved, warned and admonished, for persisting in Evil, or covering of Error and false Doctrine? was not the Judges of Susannah Elders? read the History and see what Elders those was.

Q. 16. Art not thou R. B. Guilty of Envy

and Folly, as well as Lying and Prevertion, for affirming that Blasphemy against Jesus of Nazareth, is a Sin that's not to be forgiven; pray let's know in thy next, the Chapter and Verse in thy Scripture, where Sin against the Son of man is not to be forgiven, &c. we know there is a Text that saith, The Sin against the Holy Ghost is not to be forgiven, Ergo R. B. mendax est.

Q. 17. R. B. Art not thou Guilty of Envy and Madness, to cover and cloak those Divine Attributes, or Blasphemous Titles given to G. F. (by J. C. and J. A.) to satisfie the unprejudiced Reader we shall cite the Attributes given to G. F. (by J. C. and J. A) that he may see for him∣self what the Apostate Quaker is for covering and excusing, and what the true Christian Qua∣ker is for denying, viz. all Blasphemy, and Er∣ror, be it of what kind soever?

Dear George Fox, whose Being and Habita∣tion 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, &c.

Dear and precious one, in whom my Life is bound up, my Strength is in thee, by thy Breathings I am nourished, by thee my Strength is renewed, Blessed art thou for e∣vermore,—Blessed are all that injoy,—Life and Strength come from thee, Holy one,—reach unto me, that I may be strengthned to stand in the mighty Power, and dread of the Lord,—daily do I find thy Presence,—I can∣not reign, but in thy dread for evermore,—

reach through all in thy mighty Power to him,—pray for us all, that in thy Power we may abide for evermore,—I am thine, be∣gotten, and nourished by thee,—and in thy Power am I preserved,—Glory unto thee, Holy one, for ever.—

Now behold what Confidence this R. B. hath to cover and excuse his great Scholar, G. F. whom he saith, had some knowledge of the Hebrew tongue, which is here granted; but however, he had not understanding of the La∣tine, therefore he could not understand tu nos and vos, but by Tradition, and some body paid enough for his understanding in the Hebrew, (Witness the Eighty pounds, and Dozen Bottles of Wine, as mentioned in the former part hereof) we presume this cannot be an Argument of any good Breeding in R. B. to cover such vile and gross Wickedness; as he doth both in his great Scholar, G. F. and J. C. and J. A. who were manifest to be but weak and ignorant Dis∣ciples, in giving the aforesaid Adorations.

Q. 18. R. Bridgman, is it not great Folly and Ignorance in thee, to quarrel with D. S. in thy Thirteenth page, (i. e. D. S's.) Exhorting every Believer in Christ, and follower of him to bear his Image, &c. may not this quarrelsome Spirit of R. B. be as well offended with holy David, for exhorting the Saints to praise the Lord, &c. may not we according to his Sophistical way of argu∣ing, say to him, as if any were Saints, and did not praise the Lord, &c. and are not the Preachers

as Guilty of a slip with their Tongues, as thou would represent D. S. to be with his Pen, for bidding People fear the Lord, as if they could be∣lieve in the Lord, and did not fear him? is not this sort of arguing against R. B. as good as his is against D. S? away with such Nonsense and Ignorance as R B. hath published, which tends only to his shame and disgrace.

Q. 18. Is not R. B. and his Twenty four Brethren guilty of Envy and Folly, for finding fault that no Name is to the Answer of F. Bugg, but the two Letters D. S. why may not any Man set two Letters to any thing he writes, seeing some of your Brethren have given so many Presidents for it, Witness G. F. W. P. J. P. and many others; and was it any greater Evil for D. S. to be set to that Christian Testimony, and Confession, than it was for G. P. to be set to a late silly Pamphlet, Titled, Just Measures in an Epistle of Love and Peace, &c. which is sup∣posed should have been W. P. and its like it might have been so, had not the Author then lain absconded, &c. R. B. the Light which thee, and thy Twenty four Brethren, makes a for∣mal Profession of discovers your Deeds, to be Deeds of Darkness, by your covering and cloak∣ing those Errors, that are naked and bare to the World, &c.

Observe Reader the reason why the preten∣ded Quaker persecutes and reviles the true Chri∣stian Quaker is, because they disown the aforesaid Errors with all the rest, &c. so thinking it not

worth while to contend with a contentious Fa∣ction, seeing they have a great many poor in∣nocent Souls to work to help to maintain their Chest, it being easie for them to publish Lying Pamphlets to defame others, having a national stock to maintain their Wickedness, in so doing, and if they please to put an end to the present Controversie, in which T. Elood, R. Bridgman, and their 24 Brethren with others, have invol∣ved themselves therein, let them come forth to a publick Meeting, according to the request of G. White in his Reply, and G. Keith in his Epistle to Friends, and joyned to his Answer to Tho. El∣wood's scandalous Book, &c. and for Conclusion let them give a Months notice in the London Gazette, and let it be fairly disputed out; so from all Lying and Slandering, with Blasphemy and Error, together with all manner of Abo∣minations,

Libera nos Domine.

G. C.

E. N.