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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47751	Primitive heresie revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers wherein is shewn in seven particulars that the principal and most characteristick errors of the Quakers were broached and condemned in the days of the Apostles and the first 150 years after Christ : to which is added a friendly expostulation with William Penn upon account of his Primitive Christianity lately published / by the author of The snake in the grass.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1698 (1698)	Wing L1140; ESTC R26153	27,838	41

being the Preachers of Death rather than of Truth They abstain from the Eucharist that is The Sacrament of the Lord 's Supper and from the Prayers of the Church because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ which suffered for our sins and which the Father in his Goodness Raised up But these speaking against this Gift of God die in their Inquiries 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And vain and Death must those Inquiries be which leaving the Gifts of God the Sacraments of his own Institution and to which His Promises are Annex'd seek for Salvation in ways and means of their own Devising But it was unavoidable that they who had left the Body of Christ as a forsaken veil or garment to Rot for ever in the Grave or are careless what is come of it as a thing now of no Vertue or Consequence to us should Reject the Sacrament of it which is a continual Exhibition of its vertues and efficacy to us Or that they who hope for no Resurrection of their Bodies out of the Dust should continue the use of those Sacraments which were ordained as signs and pledges of it But if it please God that they ever Return to the Faith it is to be hoped that they will then Re-assume these Guards and Confirmations which are the outward vehicles and assurance of it III. The Third point is their Denyal of the Resurrection and Future Judgment For the Proof of this upon the Quakers I Refer to The Snake in the Grass Sect. xii p. 152. and to Satan Dis-Rob'd Sect. iii. and iv beginning at p. 26. and p. 21. of the Gleanings Now we find full Proof that this Heresie was Broached in in the Days of the Apostles and by them Condemn'd as is plain from 1 Cor. xv 12. c. and 2 Tim. 2.18 in which last Text the very Quaker-salvo is expresly set down by which they have Betray'd themselves into this Fatal Heresie viz. Saying that the Resurrection is Past already that is Perform●d Inwardly to those who follow the Light see Satan Dis-Rob'd p. 21. of the Gleanings and Mr. Penn understands that Full and Elegant Description of the Resurrection 1 Cor. xv all of this Inward and Allegorical Resurrection for in his Book Intituled The Invalidity of John Faldo 's Vindication c. Printed 1673. repeating ver 44. of this Chapt. viz. It is sown a Natural Body it is Raised a Spiritual Body he says p. 369. I do utterly deny that this Text is concern'd in the Resurrection of Man's carnal Body at all And p. 370. I say this doth not concern the Resurrection of carnal Bodys but the two states of Men under the first and second Adam And though as he objects the 47 and 49 verses seem to imply a Bodily Resurrection But says he let the whole verse be considered and we shall find no such thing To the Arguments of the Apostles against this Heresie let me add some Testimonys of others their Co-temporary Fathers or rather explain the Texts of the Apostles by their Comments who learned this Article of the Faith from their mouths The Texts above Quoted were wrote by St. Paul who Phil. iv 3. mentions Clement as his Fellow Labourer and whose Name is in the book of Life And he was as likely to know St. Paul's meaning as Mr. Penn whom I desire to read his 2d Epist to the Corinthians where N. ix he will find these words Let none of you say that this same flesh is not judged nor shall rise again Vnderstand in what have ye been saved was it not while ye were in this flesh therefore it behoveth us to keep our flesh as the temple of God For as ye have been called in the flesh so shall ye come in the flesh Jesus Christ the Lord who saveth us was first a Spirit and then made flesh and so he called us So shall we Receive our Reward in this very flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. Polycarp Bishop and Martyr who flourished about the Year of Christ 70. and was Disciple to St. John the Evangelist in his Epistle to the Philippians n. 7. says that Whoever does not confess the Martyrdom or suffering of Christ upon the Cross is of the Devil And he that will wrest the Oracles of Christ to his own Lusts and say that there is no Resurrection nor Judgment to come he is the First-Born of Satan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Hegesippus who lived near to the Days of the Apostles in his Fifth Book as Quoted by Eusebius Hist Eccl. l. 2. c. 23. speaking of these Ancient Hereticks says that they did not believe either the Resurrection or the coming of Christ to render to every one according to his Works 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IV. The Fourth Point is their abstaining from the Sacraments and Prayers of the Church And for this I have before quoted Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans where he tells of those who Abstained from the Prayers of the Church and the Lord 's Supper because they did not believe it to be the Flesh of Christ which Suffered for our sins and was Raised up c. For how could they who as the Quakers made no more of the flesh of Christ than a Garment or a Vail but no part of his Person and consequently could never call the Bodily Garment Christ And thought their own Flesh and Blood to be the Flesh and Blood of Christ as well as the Flesh and Blood of that Man Jesus in whom they say that Christ or the Light dwelt as in themselves see Satan Dis-Rob'd Sect. ii n. 2. and 3. p. 2. and 3. of the Gleanings and plac'd the Meritorious Cause of our Redemption and Justification not in the Blood of Christ outwardly shed but in the Allegorical or Inward Blood of their Light within Inwardly and Invisibly shed c. I say How could these endure a Sacrament so contrary to their Belief For the Bread cannot be called the Flesh of their Light within but it was of His Outward Flesh that Christ spake when he said This is my Body and His Outward Blood was said to be shed for The Remission of Sins And the Eucharist was such a visible Representation of this as could not but shock these Enthusiast Hereticks And where the Sacraments are Practised such mad Enthusiasm cannot take place And we see by woful Experience that where these Guards of the Truth and Importance of Christ's Outward Sufferings are taken away Men fall from the True Faith in them But the Quakers have not only thrown off the Use and Practise of the Sacraments and left them as things Indifferent or Lawful to be Practised by such as may be conscientiously concern'd for them but Damn them as Carnal and Doctrines of Devils G. Fox in his News out of the North Printed 1655. p. 14. makes them the like Witch-craft as turn'd the Galatians to Circumcision And their Sacrament