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A96388 The Christian doctrin [sic] and society of the people called Quakers; cleared from the reproach of the late division of a few in some part of America, as not being justly chargeable upon the body of the said people there or elsewhere. Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723. 1693 (1693) Wing W1905; ESTC R233931 11,485 22

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adventure to assert that opinion either as divinely Revealed or opened or as necessary to be believed or received as an Article of Faith or that will undertake to demonstrate how many times or Intervals of life they themselves have liv'd on Earth and what transactions or remarkable passages or things good or bad they have done or passed thorough in those their supposed past Intervals of Life The CONCLUSION TO conclude as we are perswaded want of walking in the true Light and want of Christian Charity is the great cause of Divisions in profest Christian Societies of all sorts and of this difference among a few persons in America professing the same Light and Truth with us We are ashamed of and surprised at the bitter language and severe Consequences and Treatment in some of the Printed Books from one party and exposing the weaknesses and unwarrantable expressions of some of the other to the open Enemies of both and of Religion it self all which as also to make any publick Rent in a Religious society on personal offences or Private Occasions are greatly unbecoming our Christian Profession Charity or Society And we pray God rebuke and stop this troublesome Spirit of Enmity and Division whereever it is for it makes great Disturbance and Trouble in the Creation and where it enters in Church or State yet it 's ill work is no new thing 't was the same Spirit that infested and troubled the Primitive Christian Churches causing Divisions and Offences contrary to the Gospel of Peace at first receiv'd and whereby parties and Schisms were made and one to say I am of Paul another of Apollo another of Cephas which Carnality the Apostle reproved as knowing and testifying that Christ whom they all profest is not divided and if Christian Tenderness and Charity might Influence all parties we see no real cause for these few persons aforesaid to divide or separate outwardly especially about Doctrin seeing both profess one Light one Spirit one God and one Lord Jesus Christ and Faith in him and sincerely to believe the holy Scriptures and even the person charging the other in Print to own the Body of the People called Quakers and seems to approve of our antient faithful and generally approved Friends Writers or Publishers of our Doctrins and Principles and Preachers among us generally owned and approved by us as Men of sound Judgment and understanding and as owning the fundamental Articles of the Christian and Protestant Faith Thus far the Person charging in his serious Appeal p. 6. As also the same person further openly signified at the other Friends meeting that he and his Friends had unity with the most there as to the main As also withall faithful Friends every where excepting only some in their meeting that were unsound c. Reason Causes p. 26. and therefore if most on both sides have Unity as to the Main we may charitably suppose they do not differ in the Main or substance of Christian Faith or Doctrin before cited and sincerely owned and confessed by us if tenderly and duly considered by both sides as Men seeking Peace Love and Concor'd Wherefore the difference was very indiscreetly managed aggravated and exposed to separation Printing and Reproach seeing 't was not in the Main We wholly dislike of such rending and tearing such dividing and aggravating proceedings and bitter Treatment and have no Unity therewith But desire the Lord in Mercy to Repair Breaches and heal Backslidings among them and all esteemed Christian Professions and Societies and incline all to the Main to the True Light to the substance and Life of Christianity to true Love fervent Charity and Tender-heartedness and Forgiveness towards one another and to follow Peace with all Men and Holiness without which no Man shall see the Lord. A POSTSCRIPT relating to the Doctrin of the Resurrection and Eternal Judgment AT the last trump of God and Voice of the Archangel the Dead shall be raised Incorruptible the Dead in Christ shall rise first 1 Cor. 15.52 1 Thes 4.16 compared with Mat. 24.31 Many are often alarum'd in Conscience here by the Word and Voice of God who stop their Pars and slight those Warnings but the great and final Alarum of the laft Trumpet they cannot stop their Ears against nor escape it will unavoidably seize upon and further awaken them finally to Judgment They that will not be alarum'd in their Consciences unto Repentance nor out of their Sins here must certainly be alarum'd to Judgment hereafter Whosoever do now wilfully shut their Eyes hate contem or shun the Light of Christ or his Appearance within shall at last be made to see and not be able to shun or hide themselves from his glorious and dreadful Appearance from Heaven with his mighty Angels as with Lightning and in flaming Fire to render Vengeance on all them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 7.8 Mat. 24.27 Luk. 17.24 Dan. 10.6 Job 37.3 And though many now evade and reject the Inward Convictions and Judgment of the Light and shut up the Records or Books thereof in their own Consciences they shall all be at last opened and every one judged of these things recorded therein according to their Works Rev. 20.12 13 14 15. Signed in behalf of our Christian Profession and People aforesaid George Whitehead Ambrose Rigg William Fallowfield James Parke Charles Marshall John Bowater John Vaughton William Bingley FINIS