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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36527	An answer according to truth that trembles not, nor quakes, nor quayleth : given to thirty six queries, propounded by James Parnell (commonly called the Young Quaker) to an ancient countrey-minister : with some counter-quæries returned by the same minister unto the said young Quack and his fellowes.	Drayton, Thomas, d. 1658?; W. P.	1655 (1655)	Wing D2147; ESTC R31978	31,256	40

to be holpen up again from the fall or to be saved from the hands of mine enemies or of all that hate me and so to be renewed through him that I may be enabled to serve him chearfully and without slavish fear in holinesse and righteousnesse before him all the dayes of my life Luke 1. 71 72 73 74 75 c. This faith worketh by love brings forth obedience purifies the heart makes us conformable to Jesus Christ So that I hope for no benefit by his death unlesse I dye with him to all known sins Rom. 6. 8. and it makes us patiently wait for the hope of righteousnesse But the faith of the hypocrite for so you mean though you write otherwise seeks alwayes something else by or through Christ then what it should seek to wit the putting off the old man and the putting on the new which is created after God in righteousnesse and holinesse of truth Ephes. 4. 21 22 23. And herein differs my faith from the hypocrites and perhaps from James Parnels also 24 Quaery Whether all that thou givest bread and wine unto which you call a Sacrament do discern the Lords Body Ans. I hope most of those to whom I give bread and wine have some understanding of the true body and blood of Christ whatsoever James Parnel or his Comerades have for I have often declared the mystery of both unto them more distinctly and evidently then any thing that I have yet read in their writings And as for calling these a Sacrament the word imports two things first an holy mystery which I think you will not here deny and secondly a military oath wherein the spiritual Souldier is obliged to love obey and follow his General in life and death which most lively sets forth our duty in remembring the example of Christs death and following him therein And therefore do not quarrel with the word or thing which you understand not clearly 25 Quaery Whether thou dost not give bread and wine to natural men and women Ans. First I can give nothing but the elements of bread and wine with the signification of the same Secondly those I give to natural men and women and to spiritual ones Thirdly I give the same not onely to those that are spiritual but to a mixt company as Christ himself did to all the twelve Disciples Luk. 22. 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22. whereof Judas was one and as the Apostle for a time gave the same to those that professed repentance faith and new obedience but fell away afterwards 1 Cor. 11. 18 19. 1 Joh. 2. 19. 26 Quaery Can any be set free from sin while they are upon earth And when must they be cleansed if not upon the earth Ans. There is an earth or earthly being which is sin it self Colos. 3. 5. Mortifie therefore your members which are upon earth In this earth there is not a man that sinneth not Eccles. 7. 20. yea there is not a man upon the outward earth which hath not often sinned Christ himself excepted But when I look upon one main end of Christs coming which is to redeem us from all iniquity Tit. 2. 14. Ephes. 5. 24 25 26. upon his power to do the work Matth. 28. 18. Heb. 7. 25. and upon the promises to that effect Amos 9. 8. Micha 7. 19. Luke 1. 70 71 72 73 74 c. 2 Pet. 1. 4. I cannot but acknowledge that all iniquit both may and ought to be subdued here Nor do I know any other place of purgation after we are out of the body And these things have been held forth by my self and others long before we heard any thing of the Quakers yet we shall own that or any other Truth that comes from them 27 Quaery What Scripture hast thou for thy Rule to give Davids conditions to the world to be sung in metre Answ. First all are not of the world whom you take to be of the world to wit who are no Quakers or counted and called such Secondly Israel in the general to whom David gave his Psalmes to be sung were for the greater part unregenerate and men of the world as ye call them Thirdly he gave them in metre or measures to be sung as the learned in the Hebrew tongue know well though perhaps none of your new Schooles understood so much Fourthly what condition was David in into which every man may not come in time Fifthly are not Davids Psalmes part of the holy Scriptures which are permitted to all men and are profitable for all men to read Sixthly the Jewes did read all the Old Testament in publick with a singing voice as the Learned know Seventhly Did not the Lord by his servant Moses teach all Israel a song of his own making to convince them of his goodnesse and their own wickednesse for the time to come even then when they should depart from the Lord corrupt themselves and become mere men of the world Deut. 31. 19 20 21 22 which Song is contained at large Deut. 32. 1 2 c. Now you will not deny but Davids Psalmes may have the same use and effect even upon the wicked when they find how far they are from his godly wayes spiritual frame and growth His prayers may teach them to pray his hymnes may reach them to laud the Lord His afflictions may order support and comfort them when they are in the like condition His prophecies and promises may be the strengthening of their faith Finally his zeal to God and his love to righteousnesse may provoke many So that scarce any book in the whole Bible or Volume of the Scriptures is more universally profitable to be read said or sung then this will prove for all sorts and estates of men So that here you and your friends who are of the same opinion with you discover your great ignorance and weaknesse 28 Quaery What is the Word and whether it is visible to the carnal eye or invisible and where the Scripture speaks of any other Word of God then one Answ. I must for true order sake speak to the last part of your quaery first wherein again you lay open your great ignorance For the Scripture speaks clearly of a manifold Word of God As first there is the eternal essential powerful and living Word by which all things were made Joh. 1. 1 2 3. and are upheld Heb. 1. 1 2 3. and in whom they subsist Col. 1. 15 16 17. Secondly there is the ingiven or inspoken Word which usually came to the Prophets and Messengers of God Jer. 2. 1. 4. 11 13. Thirdly there is the out-spoken Word Psal. 68. 11. And lastly there is the written Word of the Lord 2 Tim. 3. 16. To the former part I say that none of these save the last named Word is visible to the carnal eye and that in the letter onely All the other are invisible and not invisible as you learnedly write to that eye but in the Spirit the first is both