Man was But these Quak 〈…〉 they say of our Lord His Person was mean and contemptible Therefore thâ— Spirit cannot be the same with the Apostles but a contrary one therefore Anâ—â—christ For as G. K. well observed our Lord said The Spirit he would send should Glorifie him But theirs Contemn him as farther appears says W. Baily p. 29. When he had the Body prepared which he took up and laid down and took up without the Gates of Jerusalem This I grant says W. B. was a Personal coming or the Godhead dwelt in that Person bodily And pag. 30. says W. B. He taught them to Pray our Father and not to look at his Person and pray to his Person without them c. And whereas the Apostle saith the Godhead dwelleth as present they say dwelt as past And the Scripture saith They shall look on him whom they pierced And he did shew them his hands and side and bid them feel and handle him saying A Spirit hath not flesh and bones as I have And St. Peter first Epistle 1. Chap. 8 ver Preach'd the same Christ without them whom they did not nor had not seen Although these Quakers say He did not bid them Pray or look at his Person without them but they do not prove where he ever forbid them and unless they can prove there was or is such a Body or Person Jesus of Nazareth without or distinct from the Divine Nature their Distinctions are vain at best But it 's too much the scope of their Books to contemn his Person under pretence of advancing his Divine Nature For farther saith W. B. of our Lord Jesus which in process of time was born of a Virgin had a Body prepared to do the will of his Father as it is at this day says W. B. p. 20. And again says he p. 21. That which may be known of God and Christ which is one saith he is manifest in People there he is and is only to be found Here you see they agree to degrade and contemn his Person from being the Saviour and ascribe it to something in themselves A Holy thing in People there he is only to be found say they in their or our prepared bodies Allegorizing his Conception and Birth and Person as but Figures and Facile Representations of something within or to be acted in the Saints Bodies But I do not find this Birth and Body W. B. mentions prophesied of in the Scripture as our Lord was nor such Joy in Heaven as was at the Birth of our Lord whom the Angels and Shepherds Elizabeth and Simeon and all the Prophets from Samuel prophesied of and the Apostles Preach'd And as a Man is not a Man without Soul Spirit and Body no more was our Lord Jesus of Nazareth ever without his Divine Nature And for farther Proof of their Contempt of him see G. K's Book A True Copy of a Paper c. from pag. 17. to the end where S. Eagles one of their Blasphemous Brother Preachers saying The blood shed out of him Christ after he was dead was no more than the blood of another Saint Is this all the preference you can afford his Blood and Himself to be one or a Saint with your selves And this doth G. Whitehead excuse which is Proof enough of their Contempt of his Person Sufferings and Blood as also their now excusing their Blasphemy The Jews never saw the World's Saviour as in their Book The Discoverer Discovered c. p. 7. If there was no other Proof of their Contempt of his Person and Blood but this it 's enough For as the Mystery of Godliness was great so is there a great Mystery of Iniquity or Antichrist described first Epist St. John 2d Chap. He that denieth that Jesus is the Christ is Antichrist This Spirit hath shewn it self through many of the Chief Priests among these Foxonian Quakers as he did in their Fore-fathers the Jews especially in W. Bingley whose Enmity was such against Preaching the Faith in our Lord Jesus of Nazareth That he in a Publick Meeting hindered G. K. from Preaching and as the Jews did by Stephen so they gnash their Teeth on G. K. W. Bingley by interrupting him and when himself had done speaking went out of the Meeting bidding the People pass away as the Jews served our Lord who said He is mad why hear ye him And W Pen hath done worse by him at Ratcliff since whereby they have proved their Spirit not to be the same that Paul's was who although some preach'd Christ out of Envy to him yet because Christ was preached he rejoyced But Antichrist in these G. K's Persecutors is so far from Preaching our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as the Saviour that they are so bold as to Preach That the Jews never saw the World's Saviour As is testified in a Book entituled A Call c. By E. Burlin from Pensilvania p. 17 18. And now also by them excused in their Book entituled The Discoverer Discovered p. 7. saying Though they saw the Man Jesus yet the Eyes of their minds were blinded c. As if because they saw him not to be the Saviour therefore he was not so But you say He was both God and Man but yet the Jews did not see him to be so therefore by your Argument because they did not see him God and Man he was not so For they no more saw him to be God and Man than they saw him to be the Saviour and by your Doctrine either he was not the Saviour or the Jews did not see him For the difference is not about what the Jews saw him to be but what he really was and if this your Doctrine had been only to prove the blindness of the Jews your excusing it might have been born with But being in Contempt of his Person and contrary to the Scriptures ought to be denyed For our Lord said to the Woman of Samaria and to the Man whom he cured 9 John 36. Thou hast both seen him and it is he that talketh with thee And the 4 John 26. I that talk with thee am he But these Quakers in Print say in their Book entituled The Sword of the Lord drawn p. 5. To say that this Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lye These are so contemptible of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as being Christ and the Saviour as the Scriptures declare him that none that love him would utter or excuse them as these Quakers do For it 's no less than denying him to be the Saviour and therein they deny the Lord that bought them and trample his precious and inestimable Blood under foot For the Jews did both see him and handle him and that with wicked hands too Therefore according to our Lord's Command go not after them for although his Name be in their Mouths yet he is not in their Hearts That is they do not mean him our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as will further appear but something that
24. This was he whom the Disciples trusted in to Redeem Israel whom you contemn But whereas G. F. c. does here afore make the Light in every Man to be whole Christ as by their ascribing all the Offices and Names of our Lord Jesus to it making that the only Principle and admits of no other But yet contrary thereto says G. W. in his Book The Life of Christ c. p. 13. As to Christ's being in every Man that 's not our Affirmation nor Words But that there is a Light of Christ in every Man This I take to be sound Doctrine and if G. W. be sincere herein he opposes G. F. and they are not all of one mind as they falsly boast although they are generally guilty of that great Evil the Wise Man complains of even to advance the Servant and degrade the Master For in their treating on the Belief of what our Lord did and suffered without us also of the belief of the Light within they state the Case unequally and therein are unjust to the undervaluing of the true Faith in our Lord Jesus and give preference to the Light within in the Book entituled Truth 's Principles p. 11. my great Respect to that good Man whose Name is to it and the Truths therein caused me to omit the Book and Name in my former Discovery and I question whether this Passage be of his wording There may be say they a Belief of what Christ did and suffered without c. mind these words and the work of Regeneration not known c. But it may be the same also with a Belief of the Light within And I appeal to your own Consciences whether you do not believe it 's so now with many among you Therefore this Argument of yours is of as much force against the Light within as against the Faith in our Lord Jesus without us But now observe farther when they come to speak of the Light within in what advantageous terms to that they express themselves above what they do the Belief of our Lord Jesus without For say they in the same Book and Page It cannot be so the Work of Regeneration not known c. where the Light within is believed on and obeyed so as to have its perfect work in the Heart to Regenerate and make all things new Now I appeal to their Consciences whether or no if our Lord Jesus is so believed on and obeyed so as to have his perfect work in the heart to regenerate and make all things new whether this can be and the Work of Regeneration not known In the variation of their terms they have undervalued our Lord Jesus and the true Belief in him For they say a belief of Christ but of the Light they say believed on Now there is great difference between believed of and believing on but it 's not a bare belief of but true Faith in Jesus Christ that G. K. contends for and their Injustice and Partiality even in the Case betwixt our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and the Light within shews that they are not his Ministers nor is it his Gospel they Preach Do but compare St. Paul's Gospel of Salvation 1 Cor. 15. it's worth reading and theirs and you will find theirs is another and therefore as in 1 Gal. 8. is accursed and ought to be put out of the Christian Camp And although they say Christ and his Light are not divided yet here to serve their turn they can divide them for if they be not divided then they who Preach or believe in one do the same in the other also There is a silly Argument G. F. much makes use of to undervalue and contemn the Worth and Authority of the Scriptures viz. saith he p. 137. For the Pharisees crucified Christ had that which testified of Christ the Scriptures c. Now this Argument is of no more force against the Scriptures than it is against the Light in every Man which G. F. says is Christ for the Pharisees and wicked Men have that Light as well as the Scriptures and more universally for you say every Man in the World have that but few have the Scriptures in comparison But can you produce any since our Lord's Ascension who have come to Faith in him as Preach'd in the New Testament by the Power or Influence of that Light without some special Revelation or outward Instructions by Words or Writings We can find some that have been deprived of these outward means have lost that knowledge they had as the Ten Tribes Now having shewn their Contempt of our Lord Jesus Scriptures Governours and Laws and all Christendom besides themselves as in 2 Phil. This Man of 〈…〉 n their Spirit exalts it self above all that is called God See how Blasphemoussy a Preacher of theirs Deified Geo. Fox Says he Deare and presious one in whome my Life is bound up and my strenth in thee stands by thy breathings I am nurished and refreshed and by thee my strenth is renewed blessed art thou for evermore and blessed are all they that enjoy thee Life and strenth comes from thee holy One and thou art the blessed of the Lord for evermore deare deare reach unto me that I may be strenthened to stand in the mighty power and dread of the Lord for the Servise is very great my travel and burthen was never so as now since I saw thee But daily doe I find thy Presence with me which doth exceedingly preserve me for I cannot â—eane but in thy Presence and Power Pray for me that I may stand in thy dread for evermore Deare my deare Brother John Cam hath beene exceeding sicke and he is very weak I can say little of his recovering as yet his Wife is with him she is deare and preciously keepte their deare love is to thee oh reach through all in thy mighty power to him this bearer can declare to thee of the worke this way Jo Wilkinson and Jo Storey is here their love is dearly to thee deare harte there is one thinge that lies upon mee I shall lay it before thee as tuching thy comeing into Wilteshire I was there at Justice Stocks House and the Famaley is all prety loveing and convinced and he is a sober wise Man and there is honesty in him which will stand and there is a prety People that way it hath laid exceedingly upon me these 3 dayes of thy beeing at that place I know not such another place in all the Counterey for thee deare I was much wounded to know that thou was in such a rude place and sufers soe amongst them and this was I moved to lay before thee and great is my disere that it may be soe The place is about 20 mille from Bristoll in Wiltshire one mille from Chipenam a Market-Town Justice Stocks House Jo Cam tould me that the Justice he was with was very loveing and a prety man this bearer was there he can declare to thee more but oh that thou
The Discovery of the ACCURSED THING in the Foxonian Quakers Camp Englarged THIS Discovery being before Printed The Foxonian Quakers Accuse me for false quoting G. Foxes words Therefore to clear my self I think fit to Re-print it more at large and leave it to the Judgment of the Impartial Reader whether or no these Quotations do not prove what I produce them for I use the terms Jesus of Nazareth because I find our Lord mostly Preach'd by that Name by the Apostle Peter to whom our Lord after his Resurrection said three times repeated Feed my Sheep and my Lambs And I believe St. Peter knew best how to Preach him and this was the Food he fed them with even Salvation by our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as in the Acts. And he did not Preach him as a Christ in him our Lord Jesus of Nazareth or a Light in every Man But directed to him even the Person of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth in Heaven 1 Pet. 1. 8. Even him Whom the Heavens must receive till the restitution of all things 3 Acts 21. And in the 1 Heb. 6. 't is said When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world let all the Angels worship him Now if this refer not to the Birth of our Lord Jesus who was made of a Woman made under the Law the Son of Mary but to a Light in every Man Then this Prophecy was not fulfilled at his Birth but always was and is a fulfilling to the World's end And indeed their Printed Expressions imply as much viz. That the Light in every Man is the Saviour For one J. S. who doth own that Christ as God is in every Man a spark of his Godhead-Light is in every Man But saith he there is not that Redemption-Light which leads to the Father as a Father reconciling sinners to himself in Christ as Mediator p. 52. R. Hubberthorn in Answer to this Man saith It 's Confusion and a Lye and Blasphemy saying That he hath no less than denyed the Lord that bought him because he terms their Light within the perverse Principle of their self-adoring Light R. H. p. And they do confound the Godhead being into one with the Spark or Ray of Light from him in every Man by applying all the Attributes of the Almighty to that Light in every Man saying As God is so is his Light R. Hubberthorn's Works p. 112. And it is not because they say Christ is the Light which enlighteneth every Man or That the Light in every Man is from Christ that others do generally oppose G. F. c. for But for their over-valuing it and giving our Lord's Titles thereto and thereby they do degrade his Person and in order thereto do they pervert the Scripture For I think there is no Book in the Bible that does more sully prove the Worth and Dignity of that Man or Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth than the Epistle to the Hebrews doth And yet these Quakers do pervert some Expressions therein to Contemn his Person as the 10 Heb. 5. The Apostle cites a Passage out of the salms A Body hast thou prepared me from hence they take Advantage to term our Lord's Person The a it or that prepared Body so dividing him our Lord Jesus of Nazareth from Christ as J. Cole p. 329. denies him to be Saviour as he was Man in Opposition to J. N. who affirmed That he was not Jesus or a Saviour as he was God but as he was Man Now I think J. N. should have said Only as God But I take J. N's words to be more sound than J. C's For although our Lord Jesus was God before or without his being Man yet he never was Man without the Divine Nature or being God also and J. C. seems to exclude his Manhood and therewith his Sufferings and Blood But J. N's Terms as Man does not exclude his Divine Nature because he never was Man without the Godhead or Divine Nature but he was God before or without being Man and if as such he was the Saviour The Dispute is not about his Power or Ability but about in what Capacity or Condition the Saviour of the World was a Saviour Now as God only he was not the promised Seed of the Woman nor made of a Woman under the Law nor had a Body to offer or Blood to shed nor laid wicked hands on nor betrayed nor murthered hanged on a Tree laid in the Sepulchre But all these were prophesied of and acted by and to our Lord Jesus And he ought to suffer those things and without Blood there was no Remission Therefore to me it seems more proper to say He was Saviour as he was Man than to deny it as J. C. doth But I find they all agree to degrade and contemn his Person And as any Injury done to the Person of a Man affects the whole Man Soul and Spirit as well as Body so doth their Contempts of our Lord's Person affect him wholly as both God and Man inseparable And therefore was the wiping his Feet and anointing his Body so much by him taken notice of And as J. C. hath so doth W. Baily by his distinctions in his Book Deep to Deep c. p. 25. He saith Saith Christ a Body hast thou prepared me mark the distinction says W. B. Thou me and a Body This me that spake in the Body was the Christ which had a Body prepared to do his will that prepared it Now says W. B. was it the Body or an invisible Power that said A Body hast thou prepared me Now by his Term Body he excludes the Person or Man our Lord Jesus of Nazareth from being Christ the Saviour and makes him as Is P. doth but a Garment a Vessel or Body that Christ suffered in But this him or me W. B. mentions which as he says spoke in the Body and was the Christ the Jews could not lay wicked hands on and hang on a Tree and lay in a Sepulchre all which was done to our Lord Jesus of Nazareth whom the Scriptures Preach as Christ the Saviour But these Quakers Doctrines imply them Scripture-Testimonies to and of him to be false Also because the Apostle says 10 Heb. 20. Through the Vail that is to say his Flesh they take advantage to term him Vail and these terms a Vessel a Garment they can coin to degrade him although not in Scripture And for that afore expression a Body c. in the Margent it 's said Thou hast pierced mine Ears through And for that term of a Vail it 's to shew how that by that one Offering of himself he purchased for us admission to God through himself as Mediator between God and Man as he was the Man Christ Jesus And neither of those terms A Body or the Vail were used or intended by the Apostle to degrade his Person but contrariwise to set forth his Dignity and Excellency And the same Apostle speaking but of Melchisedeck saith Consider how great this
They that eat it have it in them p. 222. But where was it before they eat it Or how came they by it to eat By all these it is evident They G. F. c. reject the Person of our Lord Jesus of Nazareth as the only Christ and Saviour his Flesh Blood and Body which was laid hands on and slain and laid in the Sepulchre whom the Apostle bore witness to Acts 13. As the Word of Salvation and the Saviour and not only the Godhead in him but him that Person our Lord Jesus Nay such was their Reverence towards his Holy Person and Body that the Apostle treats of him as the Meritorious Cause of Justification But he is by these Quakers contemned and the Light within every Man dignified with his Titles and Offices and to be his Flesh and his Blood contrary to the Scriptures for in the 13 Heb. it 's said That he might sanctifie the People with his own Blood he suffered without the Gate 10 Heb. By the which will we are sanctified by the offering of the Body of Jesus once for all Now judge ye which is safest to take that Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Body and Blood for the Object of our Faith and Hope of Salvation through the Satisfaction he made to the Father in his own Person and being thereby justified in the sight of God according to the Scriptures or the Light in every Man which these Quakers make to be Christ his Flesh and Blood Justification Sanctification c. nay the very Root of God but I think this their Doctrine is the Root of Blasphemous Rantism I could give many more Instances of the perverseness and erroneousness of their Spirit but these and a few more that follow are enough and too many to testifie against them and manifest that this Spirit they blasphemously term Christ his Infallible Spirit and Power is that mentioned 2 Thess 2. The man of sin that exalteth himself above all that is called God But according as is prophesied he is in measure revealed Therefore all who love the Lord Jesus beware Again one says The Seed to whom the Promise of Salvation is made is or hath been sinners G. F. Answers The Promise is to the Seed which Seed is the hope Christ that purifieth even as God is pure and here is the Creature come to know his Liberty among the Sons of God and the Seed Christ never sinneth p. 324. From G. F's Answer I observed that he did imply as if Christ whom he terms the Seed had need of Salvation and I leave it to the Reader to Judge considering the Affirmation and his Answer thereto and notwithstanding they Quarrel with me yet they seem to allow as much For in their Discoverer Discovered p. 21 22. say they For G. F's asserting that the Seed to whom the Promises were made was Christ read Gal. 3. 16. Pray observe their deceit here for the difference between T. T. and G. F. was not whether or no there were not Promises to Christ as the Seed But saith T. T. The Seed to whom the Promises of Salvation are made And although Christ be in Scripture termed the Seed and the Seed said to be Christ yet in a Scripture-sense Men also are termed the Seed as all the Posterity of a Man are his Seed And in the 3 Gal. 29. If ye be Christ's then are ye Abraham 's Seed These were Persons and had been sinners as T. T. affirms and G. F. opposes him therein Also in pag. 325. T. T. says The Seed of Israel are Men and not only something in Man Now by his words not only it is evident he doth allow that something in Man may in a sense be also called the Seed but G. F. by opposing him herein doth imply as if the Promise of Salvation was to Christ as if he had need of Salvation And besides the unsoundness of G. F's Juggling long two-faced Answers he hath shewed himself void of Charity and therefore his Spirit cannot be the Spirit of Christ And by the Fruits they bring forth it 's easie to Judge into what Root G. F. c. are grafted and grown out of And they are as Scandalous and Offensive in some Expressions above Civil Government They say Are not all those Elders Christians that will dote so much on an Earthly King Traytors against Christ Neither do you read that there were any Earthly Kings since the days of the Apostles but among the Apostate Christians Herod the King was mad at the Child Jesus and sought to slay all the Children in Bethlehem There is the Fruit of Earthly Kings and such a King would our false Christians have c. G. F. To the Presbyterians c. Also observe how they treated the Peers of the Realm Say they What a Sincerity was there once in the Nation What a dirty nasty thing would it have been to have heard talk of a House of Lords among them In a Book To the Council and Officers of the Army p. 7. Again say they Let all those Fines that belong to Lords of Mannors be given to the Poor People for the Lords have enough G. F's Counsel to the Parliament c. p. 8. Also concerning Episcopacy they say in their Book entituled An Alarm c. by T. E. p. 6. Did not you make a Solemn Covenant with God that you would utterly extirpate Episcopacy that dead loathsome Form Did not you spew it up and will you turn again and lick up your own Vomit Oh do not so do not run wilfully into Destruction Also G. F. in his Great Mystery c. pag. 90. saith M. B. saith If an Hypocrite Reign his Power is of God and Saints are to yield to the Power and it must have Honour and Obedience from the Saints This is sound Christian Doctrine but G. F. he opposes it and says to this M. B. in Answer Such as are turned into Corruption and are Hypocrites they are gone from the Higher Power and so for the Lord's sake the Saints cannot be subject to that Power Again says G. F. The Saints cannot now bow to that which the Pope Kings and Queens set up although they call it a Supream Power that commands the things For the Beast's Power hath set up your Tithes Temples and Colledges This is against M. B. who does not plead for Obedience to things contrary to the Will of God And this of G. F's is unchristian because it represents all those who be of one mind or the same mind and Judgment with him not profitable Subjects to the Government Notwithstanding they thus contemptuously Print of others whose Degree and Station is far more considerable than theirs in respect of their Interest in the Government Yet in a Book called Certain Certificates c. by J. P. I find they are greatly offended and resent it very highly and of ill consequence that one of their Preachers being a Justice in Pensilvania was by one termed Prick-louse Taylor although he
which we do not if we keep not his Commands turn from them and deny them and their Practice and Doctrine being indeed another Gospel And although they will what they can hinder People from Reading this or any thing that discovers them Yet you who love our Lord Jesus who be of other Perswasions who have Relations or Acquaintance that are deceived by their good words and perceive not the depths of Satan among them if you judge this Discovery Serviceable use your endeavour to possess them with the danger of their Errors for surely they are the grievous Wolves foretold of although they have the Sheeps Cloathing of Good Words It 's not my intent hereby to make void or undervalue the Light of Christ or Spirit of God within and Obedience thereto for it 's our Duty to walk in the Light within but not to build thereon only the Foundation our Lord Jesus of Nazareth being already laid according to the Purpose and Promise of God But yet that Faith that brings not forth Fruits of Holiness is not the Holy Saving Faith And the Apostle doth not mention the Word or Faith within as the Foundation or Object for them to trust in only but as the Evidence or Proof of their Faith nor doth not ascribe Salvation to that only and give all our Lord's Titles and Offices to the Light within as G. F. doth He says Now the Seed of the Woman is come in which Seed Christ all Nations are blest G. F. to all Friends every where c. p. 2. By these his words now is come he implies a Principle within but the Apostles Testimony was to him even our Lord Jesus of Nazareth who was before come Heb. 1. God hath spoken unto us by his Son mind these words it 's not doth speak but hath spoke and saith further How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed by those that heard him These refer to the words of our Lord Jesus outwardly spoken as often in the Epistles the Saints are put in mind of the Words and Commandments of our Lord Jesus as words without And I Appeal to all true Christians if it be not the chief scope of the Gospel especially Peter and Paul who have in their Preaching Jesus used for substance mostly the same words and testified to the same Jesus of Nazareth slain taken from the Tree and laid in the Sepulchre But if those wise Greeks the Foxonians had been in the Apostles time might not they have opposed with their own Reason and said What a Man that was killed and buried laid in a Sepulchre can he a Finite Being a Garment a Vessel satisfie Infinite Justice Yea such a Man as he was can But that within say these Quakers is the only Principle and admits not of another W. S ' s. Gatechism p. 57. What not out Lord Jesus Also say they That the same Spirit and Life may be enjoyed within themselves wherein only their Eternal well-being consisteth Deep to Deep p. 30. What Part or Office have these Men left for our Lord Jesus of Nazareth's Sufferings in our Eternal well-being But in this as well as many other of their Doctrines they have degraded and robbed our Lord Jesus dividing him from Christ for says J. Cole The Body of the true Christ in which he suffered c. And in their Book entituled The Christian Society and Doctrine c. They say The same Christ that was therein crucified ascended pag. 5. Hereby they imply a Christ in Jesus of Nazareth besides him whom they term Vessel or Garment mean contemptible it that and a Christ in him or therein crucified But in your next let us know who scourged pierced and laid hands on and took down and put into the Sepulchre this your Christ But if you say it is the Son or Word that was with the Father in the beginning But as such without not only coming into Man or Flesh but becoming Flesh or Man could he or was it possible for those things to be accomplished on him as such Your Notion makes the Prophets false as well as the New Testament and his Blood and Death ineffectual for it was not him Jesus of Nazareth but one in him as your Notion makes to be the Saviour and so the same in Men. But the Apostles Testimonies are to him whom you call the Flesh and the Body he took up but he took it into himself and both Natures are but one individual Jesus Christ neither had he any other Flesh and Blood to be the Attonement but that of the Man Jesus of Nazareth And if there was no Remission without Blood it behoved him to become Man made of a Woman made under the Law and not as you would have it he only came into that Man Jesus to suffer those things which as the Word in the beginning only he could not for it was his Death gave force to and made the Promises Effectual to us as himself said to the two Disciples Ought not Christ to suffer those things Luke 24. And who is this Christ Even Jesus of Nazareth whom the Jews crucified it was him the Disciples trusted in as the Redeemer whom you say You can never call Christ but something that dwelt in that Body Is P. Again you say Is not the Life called Christ where ever it is found doth not the Name belong to every Member in the Body as well as to the Head For shame no The Name of Jesus of Nazareth the Saviour belongs to none but to him the Head for your Notion implies a Monstrous Body all Head Again you say Such as be false Ministers preach Christ without and bid believe in him as he is in Heaven above W. S's Primmer p. 8. Then St. Peter was a false Minister in Acts 3. 21. 1 Pet. 1. 8. Again you say That of God within us is the only Foundation it 's Christ and being Christ it must needs be only and principle admits not of another is greatest in being And thus we know Christ in us to be the only Principle W. S's Catechism p. 57. They have not only hereby laid another Foundation than our Lord Jesus of Nazareth but have rejected him for say they Your imagined God beyond the Stars and your Carnal Christ is denyed To say this Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lye The Sword of the Lord drawn p. 5. Again say they The Name is not given to the Vessel but that of him in Vessel Is P. But was him whom you contemptuously term Vessel ever distinct from or without that which you say was in the Vessel And him you call Vessel the Scripture says is the Saviour and Justifier and the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the World Although you say Nothing that was Mortal was called Christ Quakers Refuge p. 38. Was not Jesus Mortal when taken from thee and laid in the Sepulchre 30 Acts. And see Luke
of the Great Whore as themselves entitle their Book not only by their Reproaches and Slanders but by their Flatteries p. 45. He that hateth dissembles with his lips when he speaks fair believe him not but his hatred being covered with deceit his wickedness shall be shewed 26 Proverbs And although they endeavour to excuse their Errors by some sound Expressions in their Books but there are few if any Hereticks or their Books but speak some Truths but they must not excuse the Errors for it 's them which be objected against and not the Truths but them Truths are but as the Golden Cup in the Hand of the Great Whore to allure People to drink of her deadly Poyson and do as the dead-Fly cause the Oyntment to send forth a stinking savour And that People may not be thereby deceived I am concerned to discover the wicked Mystery of this Great Whore G. F's Spirit which as they say excels all therefore I expect they will allow me to give it the preference and not be angry I do not attend their Lot but if I should take their Example and Print against them what I have by Credible Information as it 's said much filthiness would appear to be under their Skirts And this Spirit of theirs cannot be the Spirit of Truth for that was to lead into Truth but theirs have lead them into Untruth and Error therefore is Antichrist although they call it Light And there was a Generation who called Darkness Light but if that Light in you be Darkness how great is that Darkness And for your Charge p. 22. that I incense the Magistrates against you because I cite some of G. F's Errors about Civil Government that is also false and your own Printed Doctrine and Practises sufficiently warrant me therein See your wicked Pamphlets Truth 's Character c. p. 15. Say you Must not Jealousie be stirred up in the Powers of the Earth against them as they have against others and say you As they have sought to make others ridiculous even so shall they become contemptible I can give you an whole Book of these your wickedness and not out of the Quaker unmask'd neither as you falsely insinuate although I refer to that because much of your Wickedness is there collected together out of some others I wish you had minded what I before said to you in Animadversions c. p. 11. Lay your hands on your mouths if you have any shame left But I shall not now trouble my self to take notice of all your Slanders and Untruths because it 's not for my own Vindication that I contend but for the true Faith in our Lord Jesus as it was delivered to us by the Holy Evangelists and Apostles therefore I no more mind this Servant of the High-Priest's Edward Pennington's smiting me than was taken of his Predecessor in 23d of the Acts but I rather observe the Advice in 26 Proverbs 4 5 Verses For such evil men must grow worse and worse foaming out their own shame but their Folly must be made manifest unto all Men. And I fear not but the same Lord Jesus of Nazareth who hath delivered me from the Paw of J. Field and from the Mouth of G. Whitehead Foxonian Chief Priests will also deliver me from this uncircumcised Philistine the High-Priest's Servant Ed. Pennington And for their Rage because I discover G. Fox's Errors now he is dead but these Errors are living and they have done much worse by J. Perrat since his Death slandering him in Print near Twenty Years after his Death although no such occasion given as hath been by G. F. also agravated by you in endeavouring to preserve that which is for Destruction 10 Proverbs 7. And it s not intended to prejudice any as you falsly surmise nor can any harm be to you but good If you be Christians you must deny those gross Errors in Print for either G. Fox W. Pen c. had them from the mouth of the Lord or they were Conjurers Diviners and False Prophets you must own or condemn them and such their mouths must be stopped much more their Books being much worse than Verbal Errors especially as you magnifie the Authors for the Devil may no more speak in your Books than by word of mouth See your Discoverers c. p. 5. And whereas these Foxonian Priests charge me for abusing G. F. because I say he claimed to be Equal with God I have now the Book which G. F. pretends to Answer in Great Mystery p. 67. from whence I took that Sentence and although there G. F. only says Thou makest a great pudder that any should witness he is equal with God but he G. F. is there positively charged in the Book entituled A Brief Relation of the Irreligion c. p. 2. The words be thus G. F. hath avowed himself over and over to be equal with God and being asked in presence of many Persons there named whether he was equal with God as he had before been heard to affirm He answered I am equal with God And saith the Book this hath been attested on Oath before the Justices of the Sessions and also the Judge at Lancaster Assizes 1652. Now to all this and more G. F. Answers as above Thou makest a great pudder c. as if he had not so affirmed of himself But if he did not so say why did not he deny it But that he durst not because of so many Witnesses But he G. F. takes no notice of the Man's charging him as avowing it but would by his Juggling Answer blind the Readers that they might not know he had so affirmed of himself but that he were only a Witness But the Charge was not for saying the Holy Ghost was equal with God but that he G. F. was so and he answered in the Affirmative Also in pag. 3. he is charged to have said he was the Christ the Eternal Judge of the World he passes it by and does not deny it but answers to other impertinent things and spends almost a Page to prove the false Prophets were come in the Apostles time thereby to blind People that he may not be suspected as one as if because there were such then therefore he could not be one but although there had been many before him yet he might be one also But I observe it was his way to make People believe him to be in the Truth by manifesting others Errors and thereby prevailed on People to believe him without due Tryal And notwithstanding it 's so plainly charged in Print that G. F. did say he was equal with God and he does not deny it but by shifts and Quibbles vindicates it as from the Assemblies Catechism allowing the Holy Ghost equal with God which is besides the Question which was whether he G. F. was so and not whether the Holy Ghost was equal with God and G. F. answered he was Yet these Foxonian Priests to blind People charge me with abusing him
because I do not cite his long side-long Quibbles And I have now another Book entituled The Perfect Pharisee c. and in pag. 1. where it 's said it was proposed to G. F. Whether he was equal with God In Answer thereto he G. F. positively affirmed I am equal with God Also in the same Page it 's said J. N. was asked Whether he believed any could be as Holy as God himself And he J. N. answered He did witness that he himself was as Holy as God Several other Errors are there charged on them which G. F. does not deny but over-looks them although they be in the beginning of the Book unto the 19th Page where he begins to take notice of some Impertinencies and so all along the Book being 51 Pages Also I have another Book entituled The Scornful Quaker c. where G. F. practises his old Trade of false Citing and Perverting as I shall shew in time but this is now to prove the Pride and Self-exaltedness of his Spirit One M. B. says of our Lord Jesus he knew our thoughts all our ways and who should betray him never the least Error-nor deceived c. Much more he says in three or four Pages how far our Lord Jesus excelled all Saints and they inferiour to him in Knowledge and Infallibility But he M. B. does allow the Saints do partake of the Nature and Fulness of God p. 92. But saith he They are not the Father nor the Godhead in fulness nor in part Yet G. F. is so wicked in his 89 Page to say in Answer to this Thou sayest they Saints have no part of the fulness of God quite contrary to what the Man says Here is an Untruth and a false Accusation and Perversion and false Quotation in these few words and yet this Spirit that is thus grossly wicked in him the Foxonian High-Priest W. Penn says he excels them all and nothing less than being equal with God and as he is in this World will satisfie this Self-exalted Spirit but as I have said before so I say again this Spirit could not be the Spirit of Truth our Lord promised the Disciples he would send because it 's so wicked and untrue therefore is Antichrist But to return to this good humble Christian M. B. After he had shewed how our Lord surpassed any Saint yet he allows that they partake of his fulness in measure c. But this would not serve G. F. because he M. B. says Our knowledge of others is by Observation or by Fruits or by special Revelation c. We know not the way of God in their Spirits until it be written on their foreheads and so says he are not as Christ in that respect And again says M. B. But the Quaker is bolder than all his fore-fathers he knows a Man as soon as ever he sees him or whether he be a Saint or a Devil though the Man discover not himself by word or action yet the Quaker knows him and all that he may be as Christ is Much of this G. F. quotes although not truly in his 89 Page and in Answer says to this M. B. Here thou hast shewn that the Quakers have a Spirit given to them beyond all the fore-fathers which we do witness since the days of the Apostles in the Apostacy and they Quakers can discern who be Saints and who are Devils without speaking ever a word And in pag. 31. says G. F. Are upon the Throne And then farther says G. F. As Christ is so are we in this present World and these words are not put in a different Character for Scripture And then farther on says G. F. Thou art an ignorant Man not knowing the condition they People be in unless they tell thee Observe G. F. cites this M. B's words as an Error because he M. B. said We are not as Christ is in this respect and does banter this good humble Christian M. B. for so saying and in opposition to M. B. says As he is so are we c. All this plainly proves G. F. did claim himself and wicked Spirit to be Infallible in Knowledge and as Christ is in that respect and not only that God's Spirit was so for that was not denyed but that himself and the Quakers was so as further appears comparing this with p. 5 10 11. in his opposing W. T. and R. F. when he G. F. so Luciferian-like assumes to himself and his wicked Spirit Infallibility he with both the same Persons is guilty of false Citing false Accusing Perversion and Lyes And it is not as G. W. in his Charitable Essay c. p. 6. by his wicked Quibbles would insinuate as if G. F. intended to know Peoples states only by their proud and lofty Looks wanton scornful envious and fallen Countenances which testifie against them saith G. W. But I am into this wilful wickedness of his will testifie against him for his Conscience knows better because this M. B. did allow and say p. 93. Our knowledge of others is by Observation Fruit and appearance of Things in the outward Man or by special Revelation from God Otherwise says M. B. all other mens Spirits are in the dark to us Here it 's plain this M. B. allows as much as G. W. by his Quibbles would make believe G. F. claimed But this would not content G. F. nothing less than being as Christ is in this respect of knowing mens inward conditions without discovery by word or action for that which G. W. pretends to by Looks or Actions is a sort of telling but saith G. F. Thou art an ignorant Man not knowing the condition they be in unless they tell thee And also G. F. opposes M. B's saying the Saints are not the Father they are not the Godhead neither in fulness nor part although this M. B. do allow they partake of the Nature and Fulness of God And for further Proof of G. F's assuming Infallibility in pag. 5. he says S. E. says That which is within them is not Eternal and Infallible c. Now in pag. 31. S. E. Although all the Saints have the Spirit of Christ dwelling in them which is Eternal and Infallible c. Now here is a gross Slander G. F. Prints against this Man quite contrary to his express words and this proves him and his Spirit wicked and fallible and a deluder of the People Therefore what heed or Credit can be given to these mens Printed Books that dare now Print such gross Slanders and Lyes What may not they Print hereafter when these Persons and their Books be extinct For most that are wrote against them are sticht Pamphlets now they re-print theirs in Volumes and so preserve them to Posterity to defame this Generation and their Religion and thereby exalt themselves and their Errors And as I said before S. E. did not deny they had the Infallible Spirit in them but owns it but does deny that that Spirit should do and say all that Saints
do or say and should judge for them both for persons and of things after an Infallible manner and that they should neither say nor do nor judge any thing by any understanding of their own but the Spirit all this we deny says S. E. And farther says he So far as we judge according to this word of Christ our Judgment becomes Infallible and so we may speak of Peoples present condition with much certainty but saith he in reference to their future final state we must leave them to the Judgment of God And correspondent with this humble Christian doth W. Thomas say But this would not serve G. F. but to oppose this S. E. and says p. 5. Which is contrary to the Apostles who saith as many as are the Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God and Christ acts all in them and for them and that is it which leads the Saints to divide and discern all things both Spiritual and Temporal Now here you may see although G. F. doth not ascribe Infallibility to his Flesh and Bone yet he pretends its the Infallible Spirit guides him and them in all they do or say for it 's that this S. E. disowns and G. F. opposes him And although G. F. does as above falsly quote him as saying That within them is not Infallible c. yet but three lines lower himself quotes him allowing all Saints have the Spirit in them which is Infallible therefore such a false Accuser as G. F. needs a better memory For it s not the having of the Infallible Spirit that this S. E. denies but as he also says in pag. 2. Though there be the same Spirit in Saints that gave forth Scripture yet all Saints have not the same Inspiration as the Prophets and Apostles had so as they should he able to give forth Infallible Truths and immediately discover the pure and clear will of God as the Prophets and Apostles did This compared with what is just afore shews he allowed enough for any Christian although it would not serve G. F. but he and his wicked false Spirit must be as God 〈◊〉 And this S. E. says pag. 30. The Spirit that they call Christ within them speaking and acting all Infallible that they do or say and that it 's not they but Christ and the Spirit within them Saith S. E. Now it doth appear it is a Spirit of Delusion because it contradicts both Christ and the Scriptures And although G. F. does not here ascribe Infallibility to his Flesh and Bone yet he does imply that all he said and did was by that Infallible Spirit in him and so this and all other his untruths are not his but his Infallible Spirit within which was Infallibly a wicked one And this shews G. W. a meer Quibbler in his Pretences about G. F. assuming Infallibility as if it were only a knowing by looks or outward appearance or as he falsly says by a Spirit of Discerning given to some in the Church But that as I have shewed was allowed G. F. yet it would not content him and the Objections are not made against the possibility of such a Gift but against the Saints or Ministers of the Gospel in general having it and G. F. c. themselves in particular which he G. F. did in opposition to them maintain they had And for your shameless Quibble that G. F. did not ascribe Infallibility to Persons but as influenced by the Spirit it 's fully proved he hath by blaming others as I have shewed it ascribed it to themselves as Persons and who of you that are not Infallible are by his Doctrine Conjurers False Prophets and Diviners But that is also but a pitiful Evasion as I aforesaid although he does not ascribe it to his Flesh and Bone yet he does pretend he was acted by that and that which spoke and acted by or through him was Christ or the Infallible Spirit and as you say in your Discoverer c. He gave the Name Christ to something in him And it 's justly come on him to be detected of so many Untruths and false Accusations of Men and perverting and mangling their words and sense and making them speak Non-sence as a warning to others not to be so presomptious for I think this his Great Mystery c. is the greatest Mystery of Wickedness this Age hath produced of a Book And his G. F's Errors and Falseness is not easily found out by reading only his own Writings or Sayings for he writes so fallaciously seldom plainly affirming or denying but in a double two-fac'd loose way mostly by Queries that it 's difficult to know his meaning so as to prove a thing against him but by reading those Mens Writings whom he opposes his drift is better understood than by his own for they like honest Christians plainly affirm and deny which he seldom doth And therefore who would fully and truly understand G. F. c. their Principles they must read their Opponents Books But for this Great Mystery it is so false in Fact that I fear many more of theirs be of the same kind if strictly examined by understanding Persons capacitated for so great and serviceable a Work for I think it 's of great Concernment to the whole Nation especially who take on them Care and Cure of Souls and it 's observable where ever G. F. so highly pleads for his Infallibility against those humble Christians who honestly acknowledge they have it not as the Apostles he G. F. in the same place and with the same Persons is guilty of some more than usual Falsity as I have in this and other Instances shewed indeed he hath abundantly proved the Fallibility and Wickedness of himself and Spirit and not only as to himself but as the same Spirit doth influence and guide the now High-Priest and the other Chief Priests who Rule now among these Foxonian Quakers who although they may alter their terms or words about our Lord Jesus as they do about their Infallibility yet that 's no Evidence of their altering their Judgment and as the Infallibility of them and their Spirit is gone so is also their Perfection for neither they nor their Spirit is no more Perfect than Infallible which is not at all but on the contrary false and Fallible I could give you a whole Book of Proofs of their Pretences to Infallibility but these are enough to shew them and their Spirit 's wickedness and falseness Also to further manifest the wickedness of these Foxonian Chief Priests whereas I quoted G. F. opposing T. M. and saying And so all be in the fancy who be out of the state of Witnessing Christ that suffered within them p. 131. Now they in their Discoverer c. p. 21. make that G. F's intent herein was only That Christ that suffered without to be revealed within them but G. F. mentions not the words without nor revealed as they do Nor did this T. M. oppose that for says he in his
was in him and the like in every Man For say they The same Christ therein crucified ascended in a Book entituled Christian Doctrine and Society of the Quakers cleared c. p. 5. Whereby it 's plain they do not mean that Person our Lord Jesus of Nazareth but something in him and themselves was and is Christ And say they The Apostle brought the Saints to hear and see and handle the Word of God and they that will have fellowship with the Father must see with their Eyes and handle with their Hands in their Book entituled The Saints and their Communion c. p. 14 15. But St. Peter first Epist 1. 8. v. saith of our Lord Jesus Whom having not seen ye love Although now you see him not yet believing ye rejoyce Here St. Peter preached a Christ whom they had not nor did not see therefore surely they could not handle him as G. F. says And although they falsly say in their Discoverer Discovered p. 8. That T. C. set St. John and St. Peter at variance but T. C. mentions not St. John only shews how G. F's Doctrine opposed St. Peter's and 't is they who sets them at variance and not me by falsly pretending St. John's Doctrine and G. F's to agree But these Quakers Christ they Preach being not the same with St. Peter's but another is Antichrist And they endeavour to overthrow the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles even our Lord Jesus of Nazareth in a Mysterious way for they do not begin with the uppermost or outer parts of the Christian Building because then their Design would be too obvious But this Mystery of Iniquity works more secretly and dangerously for why is it termed Antichrist but because it pretends to be Christ But its work is to undervalue and contemn our Lord Jesus of Nazareth his Sufferings and Blood and thereby make the Testimonies of most of the Prophets and Apostles to and of him in great part false Witnesses and his Sufferings Blood and Gospel made void and of no effect And such an open Gap or great Road made for the cruel Jews and Mahumetans to excuse themselves and Impeach or Condemn the Evangelists that I am not only ashamed but astonished to behold how the Watchmen slumber and mind not how these deceitful workers are laying another Foundation than that on which the Holy Men were built upon And although I have been a constant Hearer and Lover of them above Thirty Years and by the love I had for some of them ensnared in some of their Errors and did not so fully see the danger thereof until lately and mostly by their opposing and contradicting G. K. and Persecuting him and his Friends greatly convinced me that they did not Preach the same Gospel and Faith as the Apostles did 1 Cor. 15. Nor am I ashamed to confess my self was not sound in my Faith But it was the Mercy of God to let me see my Error and give me a mind to be more perfectly instructed therein And I desire the Lord for the sake of our dear Lord Jesus of Nazareth to keep me under a due sense of my Unworthiness and Ignorance and humbly thankful for his great Mercy and Love more especially in giving his dear Son who dyed for my Sins And I earnestly intreat all you Quakers who be honest minded not to be obstinate and high-conceited of your selves rather than come under some blame or reproach For I can by Experience tell you that you will in the end find a better Peace in confessing than maintaining your selves in Error Flatter not your selves that you have True Saving Faith because you do believe the Relation in Scripture concerning our Lord Jesus That he was and suffered as is recorded and because you believe he was a good Man and had the Spirit of God in him and in a greater measure than you have and that whereas the Jews said He deceived the People and that he did those Mighty Works by the Power of Satan You on the contrary believe it was the Mighty Power of God in him that wrought The Jews indeed seems to be more Blasphemous against the Holy Ghost But your Contempt of his Person Blood and Sufferings is Blasphemy against the Son of Man at least and therefore a great Sin But I say this of yours in the best sense is but a bare belief of Christ and is not True and Saving Faith in him because it is not fixt in him as the Foundation and fast-hold of your Souls for Salvation but a Principle of Light within you But the True Saving Faith fixes in him our Lord Jesus of Nazareth and his Sufferings Blood and Obedience in becoming a Sacrifice or Passover for us And the Satisfaction in the sufficiency of the Object or Subject and so relyance thereon is Faith and that which People most value or rely on in that properly is their Faith sixt As the Jews professed they believed in God but would not believe in our Lord Jesus as the Messiah Therefore said our Lord to them Ye believe in God believe also in me That is as he became Flesh or Man so he was our Saviour and so he is our Mediator and Intercessor in Heaven whole Christ even Jesus of Nazareth born of the Virgin Mary And seeing since his Ascension both Stephen and Paul see him so how and when since was our Lord Jesus of Nazareth separated from Christ Were it not better for you to acquiesce with the plain genuine sense of the Scripture than to stretch and strain some Expressions against the general scope thereof to countenance some erroneous Expressions of G. F. and others You are now to me as some other Perswasions were to you formerly you having been among them So I having so many Years owned and heard you can tell you by Experience that the Light within every Man only nor the most exactest and strictest Obedience thereto will not be a good Foundation for your Faith to fasten on or build upon Be not high-minded but take up your Cross and own this contemned Jesus for God hath highly exalted him and I can do no less than bear my Testimony against and disown this self-exalted Spirit of G. Fox and them who joyn with him in these unchristian Doctrines and do think that every individual Quaker is chargeable with them and all other their Errors publickly printed and allowed by your Chief Priests and Rulers until there be some publick Testimony given out by or on your behalf against them and whatever my Lot may be from you I am satisfied greater is he in whom I believe and trust even the same Jesus of Nazareth whom Peter preached whom you term Vessel Garment c. than the Light in every Man in the World Therefore you may as your fore-fathers did cry aloud until Evening against me I cannot fear the whole Host of you although I know you be many Thousands for my trust and hope is in the Mercy of God for the sake