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A47751 Primitive heresie revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers wherein is shewn in seven particulars that the principal and most characteristick errors of the Quakers were broached and condemned in the days of the Apostles and the first 150 years after Christ : to which is added a friendly expostulation with William Penn upon account of his Primitive Christianity lately published / by the author of The snake in the grass. Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722. 1698 (1698) Wing L1140; ESTC R26153 27,838 41

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VIRTUTE ET OPERA The Right honble My Lord Bracco Primitive Heresie REVIVED IN The Faith and Practice Of the PEOPLE Called QUAKERS Wherein is shewn in Seven Particulars That the Principal and most Characteristick Errors of the Quakers were Broached and Condemned in the Days of the Apostles and the first 150 Years after Christ To which is Added A Friendly Expostulation with William Penn upon Account of his Primitive Christianity lately Published By the Author of The Snake in the Grass LONDON Printed for C. Brome at the Gun at the West-End of St. Paul's W. Keblewhite at the Swan in St. Paul's Church-Yard And H. Hindmarsh at the Golden-Ball over-against the Royal Exchange 1698. THE CONTENTS The Seven Errors wherein the Quakers are Compar'd with the Ancient Hereticks I. THeir Denyal of the Incarnation of Christ that is of the Hypostatical or PersonalVnion of the Divine and Humane Natures in His being made Flesh page 2. II. Their Denyal of the Truth and Reality of His Death and Sufferings p. 3. III. Their Denyal of the Resurrection Future Judgment p. 7. IV. Their Abstaining from the Sacraments and Prayers of the Church p. 9. V. Their forbidding to Marry preaching up of Fornication p. 12. VI. Their Contempt of Magistracy and Government p. 14. VII Their Stiffness in not taking off their Hats or giving Men their Civil Titles p. 17. The Conclusion Wherein 1. The Quakers are Invited to view their Errors in those Primitive Heresies p. 18. 2. Their Complaint of being Mis-represented 3. Their Modern Representation of their Principles leaves not Difference enough betwixt us to Justifie their Separation Whence an Invitation to them to Return The Friendly Expostulation Concerning 1. Mr. Penn's Notion of the Light within p. 20. 2. This not sufficient to Justifie his Separation p. 28. 3. For he owns that we are of one Religion p. 29. 4. His Exposition of Justification in his Primitive Christianity most Orthodox and agreeing exactly with us And his whole ix Chapt. of the Inward or Spiritual Appearance of Christ in the Soul Some Objections of his solv'd so far as not to be any Justifiable Causes of a Separation as Concerning 1. Forms of Prayer p. 30. 2. The Spirituality of the Ministry 3. Their being Witnesses of Christ p. 31. 4. Their Receiving Hire as he calls it for their Preaching 5. Tythes 6. Swearing 7. War 8. Holy-Days p. 32. Errata PAge 11. l. 29. f. one r. only P. 17. l. 21. r. Discriminating P. 21. l. 11. dele Primitive Heresie Reviv'd c. IN my Discourse of Baptism I promis'd something upon this Subject in hopes that the Quakers seeing the Original of their Errors may bethink themselves and Return from whence they have Fallen And particularly as to Baptism that I might confirm my Expositions of the H. Scriptures with the Concurrent Testimony of the H. Fathers who were Co-temporarys with the Apostles and learn'd the Faith from their mouths and those who immediately followed them to 150 Years after Christ Though we have very little Remaining of the Writings of the Fathers in that early Age. Yet I would descend no lower where I might have had Clouds of Witnesses to avoid a Groundless Cavil which the Quakers have learn'd from our Elder Dissenters to Run down the Primitive Church by whole-sale because it was so Full of Bishops and in all the Pretences of their Schism went so Directly contrary to them But the Fathers of the First Age that next to the Apostles and of which the Apostles were a Part tho' as much Bishops and as much against them as those following yet for Decency sake they Pretend to Reverence lest in allowing them off they should seem to throw off the Apostles with them from whom they could not be parted And because even in this first Un-controverted Age we have Proofs sufficient I would avoid Needless Disputes and Argue from Topicks that are allowed on all hands The Greatest Part of the following Discourse was wrote at the time with the Discourse of Baptism and Intended to have been Annex'd to it but being Prevented at that time it has since been neglected Till I was stirr'd up afresh by a Book lately Published though said to be Printed in 1696. Intituled Primitive Christianity Reviv'd in the Faith and Practice of the People called Quakers This came Directly to my Subject therefore I have Examin'd it thorowly and leave the Reader to Judge whether the Primitive Christianity or Heresie does belong most to them At least whether it did before the late Representations of Quakerism which have given it quite another Turn and Face than it ever had before Such a Turn as has left nothing on their side whereby to justifie their Schism And therefore we hope that their Conversion is nigh or if already Converted their Full Reconciliation to the Church That the Present Quakers chiefly the Valuable Mr. Penn may have the Honour and the Happiness to Heal up that Breach which now for 48 Years has so Miserably Torn and Divided this once most Christian and Renowned Church of England In this following Discourse I will not take up the Reader 's time to Prove the several Positions which I name upon the Quakers only Briefly Recite them and Refer to the Places in The Snake in the Grass and Satan Dis-Rob'd where they are prov'd at large And to Repeat them Here would swell this to an unreasonable Bulk And this being intended in the Nature of a Supplement to these it would be Needless The proper Business of this is to Compare the Quaker-Heresies with those of the first 150 Years of Christianity Where I Quote The Snake the Reader is desired to take notice that it is the Second Edition And now to our Task The Seven Particulars wherein the Quakers have if not copy'd after at least Jump'd with the Condemn'd Hereticks before mention'd I. The First is as to their Denyal of the Incarnation of Christ They confess that Christ or The Word took Flesh that is That He Assum'd or Dwelt in an Human Body i. e. the Body of that Man Jesus who was therefore called Christ because that Christ or the Word Dwelt in Him And for the same Reason they take the Name of Christ to themselves and say that it belongs to every one of the Members as well as unto the Head i. e. as well as to that Man Jesus who was Principally and Chiefly called The Christ because that Christ Dwelt in Him or did Inspire Him in a Greater Measure than other Men. But they Vtterly Deny that the Man Jesus was Properly the Son of God In a large Sense every Christian may be call'd a Son of God and so and no otherwise they allow Jesus to be the Son of God But that He was Properly the Son of God we utterly Deny says their serious Apology p. 146. which was Printed 1671. See this Proved at large in The Snake in the Grass Sect. x. Now I Proceed to shew That this Heresie was Broach'd