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A Testimony for the man, Christ Jesus repelling the poyson & fallacy of William Haworth's pretended antidote against the Quakers / from the people of [sic] Quakers at Hertford.
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1676
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Wing T811; ESTC R9910
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Losss of this so as not to have this inward or spiritual Obedience to the Righteous Law of God in his Heart whereas Paul saith expresly The Law of the spirit of Life in Christ Iesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and Death Rom. 8 2. This Man cau set up Justification and Imputation at an easie rate he can cast the Law of the Spirit within behind his Back and yet plead he is justified by the Imputation of Christ's Personal Righteousness O gross Hypocrisie whereas Christ came to condemn sin in the Flesh that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the Flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8. 4. Yet this Preacher W. H. confesseth That that of Regeneration is the making one meet for the Inheritance of the Kingdom and calls inherent Righteousness the Righteousness of the Law and saith That ALL the Righteousnesss that the BEST of the Saints have WITHIN them or without them is no more but the Righteousnesss of the Law by which we are not justified pag. 19. having before told us that Isaiah's Observance of Moses ' s Law in the spirit he calls it filthy Rags and Paul's Observance thereof but his own Righteousnesss which he counted Loss and Dung for Christ and now that ALL the Righteousness that the Best of Saints have within them is no more but the Righteousness of the Law that is all that God and Christ has wrought in them as their Regeneration Sanctification Renewing in the Inner Man after the Image of God and are but all a man 's own Righteousness Loss and Dung and did ye ever read such monstrous distracted Doctrine as this But to wheel about again and to overturn all this at one heave he confesseth That it is the Actions of the Deity that perfects all Good for us and IN US p. 7 8. And in his Epistle Dedicatory prayes for his much honoured Friend thus The Lord by his spirit establish settle strengthen you in this and every Truth and preserve you and your Elect Lady to his Heavenly Kingdom Here he seems to esteem highly of the Holy Spirit and its inward Work how sleight soever he hath made of it in other places But for his distracted and incongruous Works he hath provided this Salve in his Epistle viz. Pray Sr. candidly bear with what may not be so congruously worded in so sublame a Mystery as also that he is the least and most unfit of his Brethren Now if this man were really as humble as here he pretends he would study to be quiet among his Neighbours and not to concern himself in these Controversies which he is so incongruous and distempered in and so unfit for the Mannagement of And you that are his chief Hearers would be his Friends if you did perswade him to Quietness and not to trouble his weak Head with these Controversies last he fall into such manifest Distraction as may tend to his and your great Reproach for he appears in some Danger and do not give him Money for endeavouring to keep you and Christ at a Distance Reviling the Quakers and Undervaluing the Light Within and inward Vertues and Operations of the Spirit of God And as to his Boast That to this day his whole Book is at our Door Unanswered We say this is not strictly True for an Answer hath been writ to it a long time but the Publication deferred partly for the same Reason he gives for C. Taylor 's Paper viz. Counsel hath been given to sletght it by Silence as not being worthy an Answer or particular Animadversion But if by his too much Boasting and Clamour he occasions its Publication it may not redound to his Credit but he himself may have need of a better Antidote then yet he hath found out Hertford the 24th of the 5th Moneth 1676. THE END