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A29395	Some reasons why Robert Bridgman, and his wife, and some others in Hvntington-shire, have left the society of the people called Quakers, and have join'd in communion with the Church of England and some passages contained in a letter of George Whitehead to R.J., and R. Bridgman's reply to the same / by Robert Bridgman.	Bridgman, Robert.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1700 (1700)	Wing B4494; ESTC R18987	9,724	25

Heavens and he being now in Heaven in his Body out of the reach of our Bodily Senses One end of the Supper is to Receive and Establish the Faith of his Existence and assurance of his coming in his Body to Judge us and those Arguments of Dr. Cranmer and Ridley which George Whitehead recites were at that time advanced to oppose the Erroneous Conceit of Transubstantiation See the Book of Martyrs page 74. Where t is said that to believe the Wafer and Wine to be Transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ Argument the second it varieth from the Articles of Faith He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father from whence and not from any other place saith St. Augustin he shall come to judge both the quick and the dead Thirdly It destroyeth and taketh away the Institution of the Lord's Supper which was commanded only to be used and continued until the Lord Himself should come if therefore He be now really present in the Body of his Flesh then must the Supper cease For a Remembrance is not of a thing present but of a thing past and absent and there is a difference between Remembrance and Presence and as one of the Fathers saith a Figure is in vain where the thing figured is present Here you see the Fathers and Martyrs intended one thing and George Whitehead wou'd make them to intend another the Supper is a Figure and Sign not only of the Inward and Spiritual Grace received by the Faithful in their partaking of it but also of the Body of Christ now absent in Heaven the Faith of which being lost among the Quakers and so much denyed and opposed by their obstinate pervertion the reason of the Institution appears the more necessary and the frequent and due practice of it appears the more seasonable and 't is to be hoped that these poor Elements as they are pleased to call them with the Blessing of God at the Administration and Reception of them will prove two such Pillars and Supports of the Christian Faith and Experience that the Combination of Hell shall not prevail tho her Gates many ways are set open to furnish the Army of Abaddon 'T is a specious pretence the Quakers have made to the Virtue and Efficacy of the Inward Principle as having therein an Art of Extraction by which they perform as by one single Still all that can be proposed from the variety in a Laboratory This very Comparison and Illustration I heard from William Penn in a publick Meeting at Grace-Church-Street and as much he delivers in his Primitive Christianity where he Rants at a very unreasonable rate and as much disparages the Reputation of their Principle by the extravagancy of his Notion as George Whitehead has done by the Irregularity of his practice I am sure no Principle of Truth ever taught William Penn to advance such a Notion of the Composition of Man as he delivers in p. 71. of his Primitive Christianity Man says he as I said just now is a Composition of both Worlds his Body is of this his Soul of the other World by the Body the Soul looks into and beholds this World and by the World it beholds God the World that is without End So that the World without End and God are with him Terms Synonimous and of this endless World is with him a part of Man's Composition his Soul is of its Essence and beholds its being a kin to God not only by a Relation but in Substance And in his Book called Judas and the Jews p. 130. he hath the following Words The new despised flock of God shall rest with him in that World which never had beginning and is without end thus he gives us a Description of God and of the Soul of Man its being a part of him And thus after all the Shuffling and Cutting about the Soul and Soul of the Soul 't is easie to see how naturally William Penn jumps in with George Fox in his Notion of the Soul so fully exposed and explained by George Keith in his fourth Narrative p. 61 62 63 64 65 66 67. And as in this his Book entituled Primitive Christianity he defines the Soul to be part of God so in his Book entituled The Invalidit● of John Faldo p. 365. he defines the Nature of the Body and opposes the conclusion of his Opponent who speaking of the Resurrection of the Body says it shall have the same Matter tho' not the same Grossness it shall have the same Essential Form tho not the same Accidents William Penn's Answer will not allow that he ever read in Scripture any thing favourably towards such a Conclusion His words are I never read yet of a Body having the same Matter and not the same Grossness the same Substance and Essence and not the same Accidents by which account we must believe that either William Penn never read the Scripture or that he believes the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Bodies of those that arose after his Resurrection were changed in Substance For according to him if they had the same Substance they must also retain the same Grossness and Accidents and consequently that the Body of our Lord Jesus now in Heaven is a gross and mortal Body if they believe he has the same Body now which he had upon the Earth And yet notwithstanding this sort of Reasoning the Quakers Objections and constant Clamour against all sorts of Christians has been to insinuate the Carnality of their Notions And thus do they raise such a dust of Confusion by their Doctrines and Distinctions that many poor People are led entangled in a Mist of thick Darkness I could give a large and particular Relation of sundry Conferences I have had with several of Note among them appointed to hear and examine my Reasons for declining their Meetings from whom I cou'd never yet obtain any plain and positive Answer to this necessary and seasonable Question Whether our Lord Jesus Christ is now in Heaven above or without us in the true and intire Nature of Man glorified the same for Substance which he had on Earth and forever to come united with the Godhead But finding this Doctrine so fully and so safely expressed in the Articles of the Church of England as also those other necessary and essential Principles of the Christian Religion inclined me to make a farther Search into the Matter and Manner of her Publick Worship which appearing to me so sound and instructive I could not in Conscience delay my adventuring to make some Approaches towards her Communion And through a merciful Providence it has pleased Almighty God so to influence and to bless due means of Instruction that my dear Wife with several of our Neighbours who were also in Communion with the People called Quakers are become religiously affected with the Publick Worship and I hope the Lord will preserve us in the Sincerity of our Intentions

Epithets they bestow upon him And in their Word to the Well-inclin'd represent him the Epitome and very Common-place of all the Malice of their preceding Adversaries And these fine Characters they industriously spread throughout the Nation to defame and reproach him having a method effectually to do it by spreading their Pamphlets according to an agreement of their Yearly Meeting which is their supreme Authority in this and in other Kingdoms and Countries where they have any settled Interest The Agreement and Order of their Yearly Meeting held in London the first second third and fourth Days of June 1691 and directed to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings in England and Wales and elsewhere was and is That each Monthly Meeting of which they had at that time about 150 in England and Wales and since no doubt the number is greatly increased was to take off two Books of a sort when both do not exceed the price of a Shilling and to be sent by the several Correspondents in London or their Order to the Correspondents of each County who are to send up the Money out of their Meeting Stock which sufficiently encourages both the Author and Printer And this Agreement and Order was expresly made for the spreading their Books as is more at large declared in their Yearly Meeting Paper printed in the Year 1691. And thus they are encouraged to be continually scribling and judge it to be as they say in their Word to the well-inclin'd the fairer more substantial and edifying method But the misery that attends their numerous Proselytes is the impressions they are under in partiality and prejudice what is published by their Party passes for Truth and that not only in Doctrine and Fact but they conceive a peculiar presence of God is a continual Blessing that accompanies them The same conceit they have in all they say and do and are generally so affected with a Relish and Savour of it that puffs them up with intolerable Pride even whilst it appears to themselves under a Disguise of Humility But true Humility is another thing it submits to Truth where-ever whenever and in whomsoever it appears inlarging the Heart with Catholick Love which like the attracting and bountiful Heaven scatters its Dew on every Soyl and maintains its correspondence with an impartial influence The Lord in Mercy increase this Vertue and inable the sincere in all persuasions to let go the shackles of their several singularities looking up unto Jesus the universal Head and Captain of their Salvation who by his blessed and Holy Spirit is sprinkling the Nations through the Faith of his Gospel and that without respect of persons And therefore let me beseech such of my Friends as profess their Faith in a Crucified Jesus and in humility submit to the means he has appointed as the Seals of his Covenant and Symbols of his Presence to be very careful in all manner of Conversation that so the Adversary who seeks many ways to undermine and lay waste the Foundation and Pillars of the Christian Religion may be stop'd every way in which he appears The greatest reproach that at this time attends the Christian Church is a loose Conversation in too many not season'd with Grace and the fear of God and this is the Ground and Plea of all Schismaticks as well as it is the Air that infests the Atheist who secretly concludes because of such Liberty there is not a God of such Purity and Power as the Christians profess in their verbal Confession But this I can say from a good and comfortable experience That there are many pious and heavenly-minded Souls in several places both Ministers and People that are as Lights and as Salt in their several Stations though once I could hardly believe it so much Filth and Dirt having been cast upon them by an ignorant proud and obstinate Generation of Men whose feigned Simplicity and Humility under a pretence of Subjection to a Power above the Magistrate is very delusive in the Appearance of it but when duly examined proves chiefly the Fruit of Education and Humour Being taught and persuaded that Reasoning is dangerous in things of Religion they stop their Ears and close their Eyes until by degrees they grow hardy in Imagination and Fancy in the strength of which they have been suffered to proceed until their own Folly hath corrected them Whoever comes to a sober mind and attentively reads over the History given by George Fox and his Delegates in the Entrance of his Journal may readily find that an ignorant Education and Melancholly Temper impressed and blown up by a Spirit of Enthusiasm gave birth to his Faction in those Hurricane Times whilst the Church lay despoyled of her Power and Privileges and since that inundation of Heresie and Schism the Breach has remaiued too much unobserved And to my Understanding no better Expedient can readily be proposed to heal up this Breach and recover the Wasts than a laborious and diligent instruction of Youth and detecting of Errour by open and free Conferences judiciously managed in divers parts of the Nation T is a lamentable thing that in a Christian Nation the publick Seals and Badges of its Communion should be so slighted neglected opposed and rejected by a sort and number of men that will not be accountable in Matter of Fact for their Mistakes and Abuses 'T is a most lame and scandalous Insinuation against the Institution and Practice of Outward Baptism which George Whitehead advances in his Rector Examined p. 27. saying When this Rector meaning Mr. Merriton can demonstrate a Probatum est of such Virtue in that poor Element as he calls it of Water-baptism as to cure polluted and distemper'd Souls as if the Issue or Effect of a means that is prescribed must determine the right or lawfulness of its Institution and Practice without any Exception he may at the same rate question the Authority of our Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles in their Teaching and Preaching because many that heard them were not effectually Cleansed And in the Commission that was given Math. 28. 19. there is no more mention made of outward teaching than of outward Baptism and the Quakers may as well reject Teaching with Words as Baptizing with Water But to manifest how liable they are to pervert the True Sense of the Matter see what George Whitehead says concerning the Supper Page 35. of his Rector Examined where he produces some Testimonies out of the Book of Martyrs to favour his Cause which duly considered are directly against it The Bread and Wine in the Supper are Figurative and Symbolical and as the Eating and Drinking by the faithful Receiver Intitles him to the Graces and Blessings of the Spirit of Christ so the breaking the Bread and pouring out the Wine were Instituted as a means to preserve the Faith and Remembrance of his Body and Blood that was Broken and Slied for the Remission of Sin and which is now Exalted and Glorified in the