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A54196	Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers written, in testimony to the present dispensation of God, through them, to the world, that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-enclined encouraged, and the truth and its innocent Friends, rightly represented / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1342; ESTC R15209	43,826	145

to be according to Godliness and therefore we have long exhorted all that their Moderation may be known unto all Men for that the Lord was at hand to enter into Judgment with us for every Intemperance or Excess and herein we hope we have been no ill Examples or Scandal unto any that have a due Consideration of things § 8. We cannot in Conscience to God observe Holy days so called the Publick Fasts and Feasts because of their Human Institution and Ordination and that they have not a Divine Warrant but are appointed in the Will of Man § 9. Lastly We have been lead by this Good Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ of which I have treated in this Discourse according to Primitive Practice to have a due Care over one another for the Preservation of the whole Society in a Conversation suitable to their Holy Profession First In respect to a strict Walking both towards those that are Without and those that are Within that their Conversation in the World and Walking in and towards the Church may be blameless That as they may be Strict in the one so they may be Faithful in the other Secondly That Collections be made to supply the Wants of the Poor and that care be taken of Widows and Orphans and such as are helpless as well in Council as about Subsistance Thirdly That all such as are intended to Marry if they have Parents or are under the Direction of Guardians or Trustees are obliged First to declare to them their Intention and have their Consent before they propose it to one another and the Meeting they relate to who are also careful to examine their Clearness and being satisfied with it They are by them allowed to Solemnize their Marriage in a Publick Select Meeting for that Purpose Appointed and not otherwise Whereby all Clandestine and Indirect Marriages are prevented among us Fourthly And to the end that this Good Order may be observed for the Comfort and Edification of the whole Society in the Ways of Truth and Soberness Select Meetings of Care and Business are fix'd in all Parts where we Inhabit which are held Monthly and which Resolve into Quarterly Meetings and those into one Yearly Meeting for our better Communication one with another in those things that maintain Piety and Charity that God who by his Grace has called us to be a People to his Praise may have it from us through his Beloved Son and our Ever-blessed and Only Redeemer Jesus Christ for He is Worthy Worthy Now and Ever Amen Thus Reader thou hast the Character of the People called Quakers in their Doctrine Worship Ministry Practice and Discipline Compare it with Scripture and Primitive Example and we hope thou wilt find that this short Discourse hath in good measure Answered the Title of it viz. Primitive Christianity Revived in the Principles and Practice of the People called Quakers FINIS BOOKS Printed and Sold by T. Sowle next to the Meeting-House in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street And at the Bible in Leaden-Hall-Street near the Market 1697. SAmuel Fisher's Works in Folio The Works of the Long Mournful and Sorrowful Distressed Isaac Penington's Folio William Bayly 's Works Quarto The Works of that Memorable aud Ancient Servant of Christ Stephen Crisp containing also a Journal of his Life giving an Account of his Convincement Travels Labours and Sufferings in and for the Truth Price Bound 5 s. A Collection of the several Writings and Faithful Testimonies of that suffering Servant of God and patient Follower of the Lamb Humphry Smith Price Bound 2 s. 6 d. A Collection of certain Epistles and Testimonies of Divine Consolation Experience and Doctrine Written by that Faithful Patient and Long-suffering Servant of Christ William Bennit Price Bound 1 s. 8 d. The Memory of the Righteous Revived being a brief Collection of the Books and Written Epistles of John Camm and John Audland Together with several Testimonies relating to those two Faithful Labourers Price Bound 2 s. Truth Vindicated by the Faithful Testimony and Writings of the Innocent Servant and Handmaid of the Lord Elizabeth Bathurst Deceased Price Bound 1 s. Baptism and the Lord's Supper Snbstantially Asserted being an Apology in behalf of the People called Quakers concerning those Two Heads By Robert Barclay Price Bound 1 s. A Catechism and Confessiion of Faith By R. Barclay Price Bound 9 d. No Cross No Crown A Discourse shewing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ By W. Penn. In Two Parts The Fifth Edition Price 3 s. An Address to Protestants of all Perswasions more especially the Magistracy and Clergy for the Promotion of Virtue and Charity In Two Parts By W. Penn a Protestant The Second Edition Corrected and Enlarged Price Bound 1 s. 6 d. An Account of W. Penn's Travails in Holland and Germany for the Service of the Gospel of Christ by way of Journal Containing also divers Letters and Epistles writ to several Great and Eminent Persons whilst there The Second Impression Corrected by the Author 's own Copy with some Answers not before Printed Price Bound 2 s. A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in which their Fundamental Principle Doctrines Worship Ministry and Discipline are plainly Declared to prevent the Mistakes and Perversions that Ignorance and Prejudice may make to abuse the Credulous With a Summary Relation of the former Dispensations of God in the World by way of Introduction By W. Penn. Price Bound 1 s. A Call to Christendom By W. Penn. Price Stitch'd 3 d. Tender Counsel and Advice c. By W. Penn. Price Stitch'd 3 d. The Harmony of Divine and Heavenly Doctrines Demonstrated in sundry Declarations on Variety of Subjects Preached at the Quakers Meetings in London by Mr. W. Penn Mr. G. Whitehead Mr. S. Waldenfield Mr. B. Coole Taken in Short-hand as it was delivered by them aud now Faithfully Transcribed and Published for the Information of those who by reason of Ignorance may have received a Prejudice against them By a Lover of that People Price 1 s. 6 d. Primitive Christianity Revived in the Faith and Practice of the People called Quakers Written in Testimony to the present Dispensation of God through them to the World That Prejudices may be Removed the Simple Informed the Well-enclined Encouraged and the Truth and its Innocent Friends Rightly Represented By W. Penn. Price 1 s. Rabshakeh Rebuked and his Railing Accusations Refuted containing I. Some Reflections upon a late Sheet Entituled An Essay towards the allaying of George Fox his Spirit by way of Introduction II. A Reply to a later Book Entituled A Discovery of the Accursed Thing c. Enlarged both written by Thomas Crispe III. A Display of some amongst many of his Self-contradictions and Tautologies by way of Conclusion By E. P. Price Stitch'd 6 d. A Diurnal Speculum containing I. A plain and easie Method to find out those things that are most useful to be known Yearly And may serve as an

it is that Conformity that gives Communion and there is no fellowship with God no Light of his Countenance to be enjoyed no Peace and Assurance to be had further than there is Obedience to his Will and a Faithfulness to his Word according to the Manifestation of the Light thereof in the Heart I say this is the truest and highest State of Worship for Set Days and Places with all the Solemnity of them were most in Request in the weakest Dispensation Altars Ark and Temples Sabbaths and Festivals c. are not to be found in the Writings of the New Testament There every Day 's alike and every Place is alike but if there were a Dedication let it be to the Lord. Thus the Apostle but he plainly shews a State beyond it for to Live with him was Christ and to Dye was Gain for the Life he Lived was by the Faith of the Son of God and therefore it was not he that Lived but Christ that Lived in him that is that Ruled Conducted and bore Sway in him which is the true Christian Life the Supersensual Life the Life of Conversion and Regeneration to which all the Dispensations of God and Ministry of his Servants have ever tended as the Consummation of God's Work for Man's Happiness Here every Man 's a Temple and every Family a Church and every Place is a Meeting-Place and every Visit a Meeting And yet a little while and it shall be so yet more and more and a People the Lord is now Preparing to enter into this Sabbath or Degree of Rest Not that we would be thought to undervalue Publick and Solemn Meetings We have them all over the Nations where the Lord has called us Yea tho' but Two or Three of us be in a Corner of a County we meet as the Apostle Exhorted the Saints of his time and Reproved such as Neglected to Assemble themselves But yet shew we unto thee O Reader a more excellent Way of Worship For many may come to those Meetings and go away Carnal Dead and Dry but the Worshippers in Spirit and in Truth whose Hearts Bow whose Minds Adore the Eternal God that is a Spirit in and by his Spirit such as conform to his Will and walk with him in a Spiritual Life they are the True Constant Living and Acceptable Worshippers whether it be in Meetings or out of Meetings And as with such all outward Assemblies are greatly Comfortable so also do we meet for a Publick Testimony of Religion and Worship and for the Edification and Encouragement of those that are yet Young in the Truth and to Call and Gather others to the knowledge of it who are yet going astray and Blessed be God it is not in vain since many are thereby added to the Church that we hope and believe shall be Saved CHAP. XI Sect. 1. Against Tythes Sect. 2. Against all Swearing Sect. 3. Against War among Christians Sect. 4. Against Salutation of the Times Sect. 5. And for Plainness of Speech Sect. 6. Against mixt Marriages Sect. 7. And for plainness in Apparel c. no Sports and Pastimes after the manner of this World Sect. 8. Of Observing Days Sect. 9. Of Care of Poor Peace and Conversation § 1. AND as God has been pleased to call us from an Human Ministry so we cannot for Conscience-sake Support and Maintain it and upon that Score and not out of Humour or Covetousness we refuse to pay Tithes or such-like pretended Dues concerning which many Books have been writ in our Defence We cannot Support what we cannot Approve but have a Testimony against for thereby we should be found Inconsistent with our selves § 2. We dare not Swear because Christ forbids it Mat. 5. 34 37. and James his true follower It is Needless as well as Evil for the reason of Swearing being Vntruth that Men's Yea was not Yea Swearing was used to awe Men to Truth Speaking and to give others Satisfaction that what was Sworn was true But the true Christians Yea being Yea the end of an Oath is answered and therefore the use of it is Needless Superfluous and cometh of Evil. The Apostle James Taught the same Doctrine and the Primitive Christians Practised it as may be seen in the Book of Martyrs as also the earliest and best of the Reformers § 3. We also believe that War ought to cease among the followers of the Lamb Christ Jesus who taught his Disciples to forgive and love their Enemies and not to War against them and kill them and that therefore the Weapons of his true Followers are not Carnal but Spiritual yet mighty through God to cut down Sin and Wickedness and Dethrone him that is the Author thereof And as this is the most Christian so the most Rational Way Love and Perswasion having more Force than Weapons of War Nor would the worst of Men easily be brought to hurt those that they really think love them 'T is that Love and Patience must in the end have the Victory § 4. We dare not give worldly Honour or use the Frequent and Modish Salutations of the Times seeing plainly that Vanity Pride and Ostentation belong to them Christ also forbid them in his Day and made the Love of them a Mark of Declension from the Simplicity of purer times and his Disciples and their Followers were observed to have obeyed their Masters Precept It is not to Distinguish our selves a Party or out of Pride Ill-breeding or Humour but in Obedience to the Sight and Sence we have received from the Spirit of Christ of the evil Rise and Tendency thereof § 5. For the same Reason we have returned to the first Plainness of Speech viz. Thou and Thee to a single Person which tho' Men give no other to God they will hardly endure it from us It has been a great Test upon Pride and shewn the Blind and weak Insides of many This also is out of pure Conscience whatever People may think or say of us for it We may be Despised and have been so often yea very evilly Entreated but we are now better known and People better Informed In short 't is also both Scripture and Grammar and we have Propriety of Speech for it as well as Peace in it § 6. We cannot allow of mix'd Marriages that is to joyn with such as are not of our Society but Oppose and Disown them if at any time any of our Profession so grosly err from the Rule of their Communion yet Restore them upon sincere Repentance but not disjoyn them The Book I writ of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers is more full and express herein § 7. Plainness in Apparel and Furniture is another Testimony peculiar to us in the degree we have bore it to the World As also few Words and being at a Word Likewise Temperance in Food and Abstinence from the Recreations and Pastimes of the World All which we have been taught by the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ

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cannot subsist without it Which made David break forth in his Expostulations with God Whither shall I go from thy Spirit or whither shall I flee from thy Presence Psalm 139. 7 8 9 10. Implying it was every where though not every where nor at every time alike If I go to Heaven to Hell or beyond the Seas even there shall thy Hand lead me and thy Right Hand shall hold me That is there will this Divine Word this Light of Men this Spirit of God find me lead me help me and comfort me For it is with me where ever I am and where ever I go in one respect or other Prov. 6. 22. When thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee And I can no more get rid of it if I would then of my self or my own Nature so present it is with me and so close it sticks unto me Isa 43. 2. When thou passest through the Waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the Fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the Flame kindle upon thee David knew it and therefore had a great value for it In thy Light shall we see Light or we shall be enlightned by thy Light Thou wilt Light my Candle the Lord my God will lighten my Darkness Again The Lord is my Light whom shall I fear It was his Armour against all Danger It took Fear away from him and he was undaunted because he was safe in the way of it Of the same blessed Word he says elsewhere It is a Lamp unto my Feet and a Lanthorn to my Paths In short a Light to him in his way to Blessedness § 3. Obj. But if the Jews had this Light it does not follow that the Gentiles had it also but by your Doctrine all have it Answ Yes and it is the Glory of this Doctrine which we profess that Gods Love is therein held forth to All. And besides the Texts cited in general and that are as Full and Positive as can be exprest the Apostle is very Particular in the second Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans That the Gentiles having not the Law did by Nature the things contained in the Law and were a Law unto themselves That is they had not an outward Law circumstanced as the Jews had but they had the Works of the Law written in their Hearts and therefore might well be a Law to themselves that had the Law in themselves And so had the Jews too but then they had greater outward helps to quicken their Obedience to it such as God afforded not unto any other Nation And therefore the Obedience of the Gentiles or Vncircumcision is said to be by Nature or Naturally because it was without those Additional External and extraordinary Ministries and Helps which the Jews had to provoke them to their Duty Which is so far from lessening the obedient Gentiles that it exalts them in the Apostles Judgment because though they had less Advantages then the Jews yet the Work of the Law written in their Hearts was made so much the more evident by the good Life they lived in the World He adds their Consciences bearing Witness or as it may be rendred witnessing with them and their Thoughts mean while accusing or else excusing one another in the Day when God shall judge the secrets of all Hearts by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel Which presents us with four things to our Point and worth our serious Reflection First That the Gentiles had the Law written in their Hearts Secondly That their Conscience was an allowed Witness or Evidence about Duty Thirdly That the Judgment made thereby shall be confirmed by the Apostles Gospel at the great Day and therefore Valid and Irreversible Fourthly That this could not be if the Light of this Conscience were not a Divine and Sufficient Light For Conscience truly speaking is no other then the Sence a Man hath or Judgement he maketh of his Duty to God according to the Vnderstanding God gives him of his Will And that no ill but a true and scriptural Use may be made of this Word Conscience I limit it to Duty and that to a Virtuous and Holy Life as the Apostle evidently doth about which we cannot miss or dispute read verse 7 8 and 9. It was to that therefore the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ desired to be made manifest for they dared to stand the Judgment of Conscience in reference to the Doctrine they preach'd and prest upon Men. The Beloved Disciple also makes it a Judge of Man's present and future State under the Term Heart For if our Heart condemn us God is greater then our Heart and knoweth all things Beloved if our Heart condemn us not then have we Confidence towards God Plain and strong Words And what were they about but whether we Love God in Deed and in Truth And how must that appear VVhy in keeping his Commandments which is living up to what we know And if any desire to satisfie themselves farther of the Divinity of the Gentiles let them read Plato Seneca Plutarch Epictetus Marcus Aurelius Antoninus and the like Gentile VVriters They will also find many of their sayings collected in the first Part of a Book called the Christian Quaker and compared with the Testimonies of Scripture not for their Authority but agreeableness In them they may discern many Excellent Truths and taste great Love and Devotion to Virtue A fruit that grows upon no Tree but that of Life in no Age or Nation Some of the most Eminent VVriters of the first Ages such as Justin Martyr Origen Clemens Alexandrinus c. bore them great Respect and thought it no lessening to the Reputation of Christianity that it was defended in many Gentile Authors as well as that they used and urged them to engage their Followers to the Faith as Paul did the Athenians with their own Poets CHAP. VII Sect. 1. An Objection Answer'd about the various Dispensations of God The Principle the same Sect. 2. God's Work of a Piece and Truth the same under divers Shapes Sect. 3. The Reason of the prevalency of Idolatry Sect. 4. The Quakers Testimony the best Antidote against it viz. walking by a Divine Principle in Man Sect. 5. It was God's End in all his Manifestations that Man might be God's Image and Delight § 1. Obj. BUt it may be said If it were one Principle why so many Modes and Shapes of Religion since the World began For the Patriarchal Mosaical and Christian have their great differences to say nothing of what has befallen the Christian since the Publication of it to the World Answ I know not properly they may be called divers Religions that assert the true God for the Object of Worship the Lord Jesus Christ for the only Saviour and the Light or Spirit of Christ for the