George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows, Title page – Dedication
George Fox Digg'd out of his Burrovves, Or an Offer of DISPUTATION On fourteen Proposalls made this last Summer 1672 (so call'd) unto G. Fox then present on Rode-Island in New-England, by R. W.
As also how (G. Fox slily departing) the Disputation went on being managed three dayes at Newport on Rode-Island, and one day at Providence, between Iohn Stubs, Iohn Burnet, and William Edmondson on the one part, and R. W. on the other.
In which many Quotations out of G. Fox & Ed. Burrowes Book in Folio are alleadged.
WITH AN APENDIX Of some scores of G. F. his simple lame Answers to his Opposites in that Book, quoted and replyed to By R. W. of Providence in N. E.
BOSTON Printed by Iohn Foster, 1676.
TO The KINGS MAIESTY Charles the IId: &c. Whom the King of Heaven long and eternally Preserve.
Royal Sir,
THE Most High hath adorned you with an High Birth, with a gallant Temper, and Endowments of Nature, with Princely Education, and rare Experiences &c. The Crown of all, the Sanctifier of all must be L'esprit de Djeu, or else all that is under the Sun in fumum abeunt.
Touching this most holy Spirit, and other heavenly Points in difference between the Protestants and the Quakers, I present your royal eye with a Lantskip of a Battle fought this last Summer in your Majestyes New-England, between some of the eminentest of the Quakers and my self, three dayes at Newport on Rode-Island, and one at Providence on the Main in the same Colony.
I am humbly bold to present it to your Royal Hand,
1. That your own precious Soul (infinitely more precious then thousands of Brittains or Worlds may see the Grounds and Roots of these Protestant Disquisitions.
2. That your Majesty may see what your New-English Subjects are doing under the gracious Wing of your wonderfull Favour to us &c
3. Because your Majestyes Name is often mentioned and concerned in these Concertations.
4. Because it was affirmed by some of my Opposites in publick, that there were scarce any of their Books came forth, but the King had one: I thought it some obligation on me, to present the Protestant Truth (thus publickly and solemnly asserted) more justly then my Popish and Arminian Opposites to offend your Royal eyes with Smoak out of the Deep Pit.
Gracious Sir, I know your precious Spirits and Minutes are exhausted in managing your Warrs abroad, and in preserving your Dominions in Peace at home; I cannot therefore hope for one glance of your eye upon any more then this poor Epistle.
Charles the Great was one of the greatest Princes of that name in the world. And Charles the fifth (both Emperours) had his wonderfull Trick at Helm also; but both (and all) turn into the Cabbin & Pit of Rottenness. Charles the 5th. in his 58th. year, Charles the Great in his 72d. year: But were every drop of water between your Old-England and New, a million of years, yet Mors ultima linea, and tis but Momentum unde pendet Eternitas.
By Gods most wise and righteous Permission, the Pope and Quakers pretend their Enthusiasmes and Infallibilityes: I know and have detected much of both of their Impostures, and I beseech him who is the eternal Pater Luminum, to preserve your Royal Spirit from both their Cheatings, that is from the Oracles of Hell in their mouths.
And I humbly importune your Majestyes continued Grace and Patience to this poor New-England, which (though a miserable, cold, howling Wilderness, yet L'eternel hath made it his Glory, your Majestyes Glory, and a Glory to the English and Protestant Name: and if the most High please, Old and New-England may flourish when the Pope and Mahomet, Rome and Constantinople are in their Ashes.
Providence in N-England, March 10th. 1672/3. (ut Vulgò,) Your Majestyes most loyal and affectionate Orator at the Throne of Grace. Roger Williams.