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Primitive Christianity CONTINUED IN THE Faith and Practice Of the PEOPLE called QUAKERS BEING IN ANSVVER To a Pamphlet Entituled Primitive Heresie c. And which may serve as an Appendix to a Book Entituled An Antidote against the Venom of the Snake in the Grass by George Whitehead Joseph Wyeth Prov. 24. 8. He that Deviseth to do Evil shall be called a Mischievous Person Psal 140. 3. They have sharpened their Tongues like a Serpent Adders Poison is under their Lips Selah London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle next Door to the Meeting-House in White-Hart-Court in Gracieus-street and at the Bible in Leaden-hall-street near the Market 1698. THE PREFACE Friendly Reader THE Ensuing Leaves which contain our Vindication against the Black Attempts of a Necessitous and Malicious Priest in a Piece of his Emtituled Primitive Heresie c. are Commended to thy Perusal wherein thou wilt see the Consonancy and Constancy of our Principles to the Holy Scriptures Asserted in Opposition to the Charges of Heresie and New Representation by him Falsly but not first laid For it hath often been the Practice of our Adversaries when we have brought forth our True Testimonies to say our Representation was New But as this Man seems to Love Controversie in Opposition to Peace and Quiet because he may find his Bread or Base Ends supplied by the Contest and to make use of False Glosses to Colour the Pretended Occasion So I Esteem it a Duty to wipe off the Dirt he hath flung at us herein for which though I have none of his mean Profits yet I can assure thee Reader I have Satisfaction in so doing The Method I have herein taken is this I have from the Year 55. or there about brought in a Succession divers Testimonies against the Particular Charges which do at once shew that what we now Profess is no other than what we did The Quotations all speak the Minds of the Persons whose Names they bear I say this because those Quotations of our Friends which this Man brings does not nor can after the Barbarity he hath used toward them of which I have herein given divers Instances I need Preface no further than to Acquaint thee that as the Author Stiles himself from the Snake in the Grass I also have frequently Stiled him so not being willing to Abridge him a Title of his own choosing which fitly Expresses the Workings of that Deceit which was first began by the great Enemy of Man the Devil from whose Temptations and all Deceit howsoever working The Spirit of Truth which comes by Jesus Christ can only be thy Safe Guide To this thou art in all Sincerity Commended THE CONTENTS I. THE Incarnation of Christ that is the Vnion of the Divine and Humane Natures in his being made Flesh Asserted and Believed p. 12 II. The Truth and Reality of his Death and Sufferings Asserted and Believed p. 19 III. The Resurrection and Future Judgment Believed and Testified to p. 25 IV. Baptism and the Supper spoken to p. 32. Marriage owned and Fornication Preached down and denied p. 39 V. Magistracy and Government owned p. 46 No Stiffness in not taking off Hats Civility acknowledged to all p. 48 The Conclusion p. 49 Misrepresentation fixed p. 51 Our Ancient Belief no Modern Representation p. 53 Expostulation with W. Penn Considered ibid. Primitive Christianity CONTINUED c. SECT I. LOVE to Truth not Controversie hath drawn this from me for from a well-grounded Satisfaction Knowledge and Belief according to my measure in the Manifested Principles of True Religion I could with more ease have been pleased to Injoy that quiet which results from the Practice of them and which it hath Pleased the Government to allow to Persons quictly tho' differently Opining To the Disturbance of the Quiet thus allowed there hath of late appeared an Expulsed Clergy-man boasting himself to be some great one and indeed in all the Qualities of Venom Slander and Abuse he is so his first for what I know Libel against us The Snake in the Grass shews this and this he makes the Epoch of his Scandalous Practice in his succeeding Scurrilous Pamphlets which his Sculking Leisure and Malice Furnishes him with Opportunity to multiply for from being an Expulsed Priest he makes it a Trade for Bread and in part to repair those Losses which he charges the present Establishment to have brought upon him What he says of himself is That he Fights for his Soul the Joy and Vnion of Christendom the Honour of Religion and Pri. Her p. 20. the Glory of God But upon better Information this appears to be False and that he seeks nothing less than those good things he speaks of but to varnish ill Attempts with Specious Titles and the Confusion of a Church and Nation with a Prayer Dis Shewing who they are that are now qualified c. p. 33. for a Removal of High Places is no new thing But to come more parcularly to his Out-rage against us He is pleased to Charge us with Follies Crimes Errors and Heresies of very many sorts and herein hath gone so far that I think there are few that know and impartially consider us but know that it is False though Attested Verbo sacerdotis in the disguise of a Snake c. It is true it is no new thing for particular Persons or Communities of Men to be Charged with Blackest Crimes Greatest Errors Schisms and Heresies An Instance of this kind and which comes to our present purpose is seen in the Apology of the Church of England for her separation from Rome in the Fifth Article there is numbred up some of the Crimes which were Charged upon her the Article it self follows Clamant hodie passim nos omnes esse haereticos disccssisse à side novis persuasionibus atque impiis dogmatis Ecclesiae causam dissipavisse nos veteres jam Doctrina Politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae c. p. 3. Ar. 5. olim Damnatas Haereses ab inferis redivivas restituere novas sectas inauditos furores disseminare jam etiam in contrarias factiones sententias distractos esse nec ullo pacto potuisse unquam inter nos ipsos convenire esse homines gigantum more Deo ipse bellum facere prorsus sine omninuminis cura cultuque vivere nos omnia rectefacta despicere non virtutis disciplina uti ulla non legibus non moribus non jus non aequum non rectum colere ad omnia flagitia laxare fraenoe populum ad omni genus licentiae atque libidinis provocare nos id agere querere ut monarchiae regnorum status evertantur omnia ad popularem temeritatem imperitae multitudinis dominationem ridigantur nos ab Ecclesiae Catholicae tumultuose defecisse nefario Schismate orbem terrarum concussisse pacem communem atque otium Ecclesiae publicum conturbasse utque olim Dathan Abiram Arone Mose Num. 16. ita
nos hodie à Romano Pontifice sine ulla satis justa causa secessionem fecisse priscorum Patrum veterum conciliorum anctoritatem pronihilo putare Caeremonias antiquas à patribus proavis nostris multis jam Seculis bonis moribus melioribus temporis approbatus temerè insolenter abrogasse nostra tantum privata anctoritate injussu sacri Ocumenici consilii novos in Ecclesiam ritus invexisse atque ista nos omnia non Religionis causa sed contention is tantùm studio fecisse Se autem nihil prorsus immutasse omnia vero ut ab Apostolis tradita ab antiquissimis Patribus approbata fuerint ad hunc usque diem per tot secula retinuisse They cry every where this day We are all Hereticks departed from the Faith have rent the Vnity of the Church with now and ungodly Tents that we have Revived and Restored the old Damned Heresies have sown new and unheard of Sects and Madnesses and are already broke into Factions and Divisions nor by any agreement can never be united among our selves Impious Men of monstrous Manners making War against God and living without all Worship and Fear of the Godhead That we despised every right Way and used no Virtuous Discipline nor loved either Laws Manners Religion Right or Equity but let loose the Rein to all manner of Wickedness and Provoked the People to every kind of Licentiousness and Lust and sought and did this that the State of Kingdoms and Monarchies might be over-turned and reduced under the Rule of the Rash and Vnskilful Multitude That we have Tumultuously Separated from the Catholick Church and have shook the Earth with a Nefarious Schism and have troubled the common Peace and Quiet of the Church and as Dathan and Abiram from Aaron and Num. 16. Moses so we this day from the High Priest have made separation without any cause sufficiently just That we account for nothing the Authority of the Ancient Fathers and Old Counsels that we have rashly and insolently Abrogated the Ancient Ceremonies and Good Manners which by or Fathers and Fore-fathers for many Ages were Approved and only by our private Authority have brought new Rites into the Church no Holy and Ocumenick Counsel Commanding and that we have done all these things not for the cause of Religion but only in a Study of Contention But that she is not all changed but that all things as delivered by the Apostles and as they have been Approved by the Ancient Fathers do through so many Ages remain to this very day This with much more in the Apology is said to have been the Charge of Rome and yet I do not doubt but this Man will readily discharge Her from these these alledged Crimes Hence we may have at least this Consolation That we are not therefore Villanously Criminal because Villanously Charged and to shew that we are not so there hath been already Published an Answer to that Venomous Piece of Villanny The Snake in the Grass wherein is also ome notice taken and answer made to some noted Passages in two other Scandalous Pamphlets one Entituled Satan Disrob'd c. and the other A Discourse for Water-Baptism c. which Answer is Entituled An Antidote against the Venom of the Snake c. by George Whitehead in which Answer is a Discovery of the Falsity and Envy of this Loose Charger But as to what is here advanced being what he says he Promised upon this Subject in hopes that the Quakers seeing the Prim. Her P1 .. original of their Errors may bethink themselves and return from whence they have fallen I do tell him that whatsoever his Promise was his Performance is very bad because what he assigns for Original Errors are but his Coppied Fasitiâ—s upon us having been Charged by our Enemies many Years past and therefore we are very far from returning to Communion with one whose Fellowship is with the Father of Lies As to the Oral Traditive Faith by which he would Confirm Baptism tho' said to be learned within 150 Years after Christ it is what will not do it for the same Antiquity and pretended Authority may be brought for Mistakes more noted But besides Faith is the Gift of God to whom we must look for it and not to the Mouths of Men Indeed if he can absolutely determine the question by the Scriptures the Work is done and then there is no need of any doubtful help but if not it will not avail tho' he bring many Clouds of such Witnesses in the latter Ages and the Reason is plain because Scripture is what he calls his Rule not to be tried by them but they by it and if found contradictory thereto our Dissent cannot be Criminal And notwithstanding he calls this A Cavil we learned from Elder Dissenters we are not afraid to stand by it and therefore pay little Reverence to those nor any thing not purely Apostolical Here he says The late Representations of Quakerism hath given it quite another Turn and Face than it ever had before if he had added Ibid. p. 2. that he knew of it had shewn some Modesty but since he has shewn none I will tell him he is Dogmatically False for our Principles are now no other than what they were when we were first a People for Truth changes not and this I hope will appear beyond Contradiction from the many Quotations I shall have occasion to bring in out of many of our former and latter Books so that the Ground of what he calls our Schism and which I say is our just Dissent will consequently appear as large as before He says He hopes our Conversion is nigh or if already Converted our full Reconciliation to the Church He should have told us what Church he meanes for if he means into Communion with himself that is Scandalous to say no worse at present if he means to the Church of England I cannot think she would send a Rebellious Son to call us And here I will take opportunity to Confute a Lying Boast I have heard and which is favoured by what himself hath said above viz. He hath brought over a great many from Us I know not nor cannot hear and I have inquired of one Silly Quaker who is yet so Ignorant as to go from our Allowed Meetings to his Unallowed One And therefore when this his pretended Service is urged as an Argument for his Attonement and Reconciliation I can assure them the Argument is False and there is great Reason it should for God advances not Truth by Piè fraudes much less Impié fraudes He changes Stile and now Fawns calling W. Penn The Valuable Mr. Penn. At the end of his Book he changes again and would there Insinuate This his now Valuable Mr. Penn to be there very weak of which in its place I shall here a little interrupt the Thread of my Discourse upon this Pamphlet of Primitive Heresie c. and bestow a few Words
1655. By G. Whitehead c. sent of him for the Punishment of Transgressors and for the Encouragement of them that do well These we own and are subject to them for Conscience-sake knowing that such are not a Terror to Good Works but to Evil for such execute the Law in Righteousness upon them who are guilty of the Transgression of it for because of Transgression the Law is added and there the Law is executed in its place and in Righteousness and those that execute the Law in its place they are for the Establishment of Righteousness and Peace and contrary to the Law of Justice and Equity dare not Act in their own Wills nor for their own Ends And herein they seek not themselves nor their own Glory nor Honour but the Glory and Honour of God who is Honoured and Glorified among them who Act in Truth and Righteousness and love the Lord and to them our Souls are subject P. 23. And as for this present Authority and Government now in A Visitation of Love 1661. By Edw. Burroughs Being under the Name of King Charles the Second we do believe and acknowledge That according to the Purpose and Will of God and of his bringing to pass this present Government and Authority is set up and into its present being established P 6. 7. The Honour that is due unto Magistrates consists in True Magistracy Described 1660. By Henry Clark these two Particulars 1. Love 2dly Obedience First He that is in the Well-doing himself loves the Rulers that be set up of God who are Just and Rule in the Fear of God and is a Terror to the Evil-doers for When the Righteous are in Authority the Children of Wisdom rejoyce desiring of God that long they may Live and Prosper in the Work of the Lord and Love thinketh no Evil nor behaveth not it self unseemly toward the Rulers neither speaketh any Evil against him neither doth it revile the Judges Secondly Honour due to the Magistrate consisteth in Obedience either Actively in Doing or Passively by a Willing Patient and Meek Suffering under them for the Lord's sake And because Christ's Headship Kingship and Supremacy alone Sam. Fisher p. 34. of his Works we together with the True Church which is in God the Father and in Jesus Christ the Light can own in the Court of Conscience and in Matters purely Spiritual and of meer Religious and Soul Concernment and not any meer Mans much less the Pope's or any Priests in such Sacred Secrets therefore are we mistaken and misranked among such as are utter Enemies to the present King's Supremacy in these Dominions Whereby we do according to what the Spirit requires of us in all Civil Causes and Cases between Man and Man submit our selves to every Ordinance of Man himself I say in such cases even for the Lord's sake whether unto the King as Supream or to such as are sent of him to be a Terror to Evil-doers and a Praise to them that do well And if those who have the Sword in hand shall turn it against us for well doing and so act against the good Will of God or impose by God's Permission upon us contrary to our Consciences even there where we cannot obey actively we are willing to bear Patiently without Violent Resistance what God will leave us to Suffer from the Hands of such as should Protect us not Reviling nor Threatning nor Cursing but committing our Case in Quietness to him that Judgeth Righteously and our Souls to him in Well-doing And that Passive Deportment must be and is Judged by all to be Equivolent to that Active Obedience which others yield for Fear to what Laws soever is made among Men. Page 20. Our Principle is to bring all into a Peaceable Life To the King and both Houses of Parliament a Representation c. 1666. By John Whitehead Alex. Parker and Leonard Fell. out of those things that are Evil that the Law of God and every Law of Man that is grounded upon Reason and Equity takes hold upon and therein we are one with Justice Therefore distinguish between those whose Principles lead to Violence or other Evils that the Law of God and of Man which is equal takes hold upon and us who are one with Justice and lead from those things into a Peaceable Life as much as in us lyes with all Men which is according to the Practice of the Primitive Christians Page 101. And those Rulers Governours or Magistrates who The Life of God c. 1677. By William Gibson are a Terror to Evil Doers and a Praise to those that do well are worthy of Honour yea of double Honour and all such are duly honoured by us with the Honour which belongs unto them and we really and with Pleasure Honour and Obey all such not for fear of the Wrath but for good Conscience sake as the Apostles and Primitive Fathers did Page 481. It is our Principle and Testimony to deny and renounce G. Fox's Journal given the Parliament 1680. all Plots and Plotters against the King or any of his Subjects for we have the Spirit of Christ by which we have the Mind of Christ who came to Save Mens Lives and not to Destroy them and we would have the Kind and all his Subjects to be safe Wherefore we do Declare That we will Endeavour to our Power to Save and Defend him and them by Discovering all Plots and Plotters which shall come to our Knowledge that would Destroy the King or his Subjects These Quotations are I hope sufficient for the purpose Intended which is To Testifie our Constant Peaceable Principle and Practice in Obedience to Government and Magistracy yet as a close to all the foregoing Quotations from our Friends Books I will give one Quotation which Relates to near all the foregoing Charges and which is taken from a Paper lately given to the Parliament Occasioned by E. Bugg's Calumnies it 's Entituled The Quakers Vindication and was PRESENTED to the Members of Parliament in December 1693. We whose Names are Under-written being in Christian Society with the People called Quakers do in good Conscience Declare and Certifie all Persons Concerned 1. That we sincerely Believe and Confess That Jesus of Nazareth who was Born of the Virgin Mary is the True Messiah the very Christ the Son of the Living God to whom all the Prophets gave Witness And we do Highly Value his Death Sufferings Works Offices and Merits for the Redemption and Salvation of Mankind together with his Laws Doctrine and Ministry 2. That this very Christ of God was and is the Lamb of God that takes away the Sins of the World who was Slain was Dead and is Alive and Lives for Evermore in his Divine Eternal Glory Dominion and Power with the Father 3. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are of Divine Authority as being given by Inspiration of God 4. And that Magistracy or Civil Government is God's Ordinance