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A43112 Animadversions upon a late quibling libel from the Hartford Quakers, stiled, A testimony for the man Christ Jesus demonstrating that it is not the same true and real man Christ Jesus that they give testimony unto, but another false and feigned Jesus, or, A fresh and fuller draught of the same antidote, against the poyson presented in the whores golden cup / by Will. Haworth. Haworth, William. 1676 (1676) Wing H1194; ESTC R19450 28,927 32

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wise men it s said fell down and worshipped him when a Babe Matth. 8.2 The Leper worshipped him Matth. 9.18 There the Ruler worshipped him Matth. 14.33 They that were in the Ship upon his stilling the Storm worshipped him Matth. 15.25 The Women of Canaan worshipped him John 9.38 The blind man that Christ healed worshipped him After his Resurrection Mat. 28.9 They held him by the feet and worshipped him and the 17. vers And since his Ascension John worshipped him in the Visions he had and Rev. 5. The twenty four Elders yea and every Creature in its kind and way is said to worship the Lamb See what ingenous men these be to say my talk is unscriptural in pleading for the Humane Nature of Christ to be worshipped in conjunction with the Deity the foundation of the worship being the Deity neither is my talk uncouth but only to them that understand not the Christian Religion it is used by all the Christian Churches and by all Christian Writers that have written any thing of the Humane Nature of Christ especially if they have any contention with Socinians The same can I say of the other Property viz. That the Flesh of Christ giveth life to our Souls I have explained my self in that discourse in what way and manner it giveth life let them if they dare oppose it how unscriptural is this when as I there annexed John 6.53 Except ye eat my Flesh and drink my Blood ye have no life in you whenever Christ mentioneth his Flesh and Blood as here our judgement and belief is that he hath always respect to his Manhood and the benefits the Church hath by his Incarnation let them dare to contradict it and we say that this Flesh that gives life is himself the Manhood with the Deity is but one Person one Christ one Mediator and both are spoken in that place which they in their corrupt judgments alledge against us John 6.5 Pag. 13. robbing the Humanity of that which is due to it Now let us gather up all briefly without wronging them a title and you shall see what a strange Manhood it is that they have confessed to 1. Its according to them a Manhood that is no way the object of Sense cannot any way be seen felt or heard though it was both seen felt and heard after the Resurrection which was a glorified state 2. It is an Infinite Immense God not any where to be circumscribed it may be in a thousand times ten thousand of Saints at once 3. It is so thin subtle that it can penetrate doors Stone walls 4. It is informe hath no shape Figure Lineaments Countenance that is Humane 5. No one is to give any worship to it though in union with the Godhead 6. It is such a Manhood as did not die for Sinners nor doth not now intercede for Sinners For thus I argue according to what hath past if the Flesh of Christ hath not procured life for our Souls which they call'd unscriptural uncouth not to be taken notice of then did Christ never die for Sinners life for our Souls could no way be procured but by expiating and taking away the cause of death which was sin Now sin is no way expiated but by the death of Jesus Christ but Jesus Christ only died as Man suffered as to his Flesh had there been no Manhood there had been no Offering no Sacrifice 2. According to them the Man Christ doth not now intercede if he procured not Life by his Flesh and Manhood he doth not intercede there can be no life to our Souls without the Spirit and Faith now there is neither Spirit nor Faith to any but by the Intercession of Christ he obtains them thereby for us but now there is no Intercession without the Flesh and Manhood of Christ the blood of the Sacrifice was carried into the holiest which figured this viz. Christ carries the Merit of his sufferings into Heaven 1 John 2.2 He is an Advocate by vertue of his being a Propitiation it is the Man Christ Jesus that is the Mediator 7. Such a man is Christ as is not now a Priest Heb. 8.4 If he were on earth 1 Tim. 2.5 he should not be a Priest but he is on Earth the Quakers say at least in one Essential part of his Manhood his Soul is in every S●int you see Error is big bellied and fruitful This is the effect of forsaking the Scripture setting up another Rule not content with sound Doctrine given forth in sound words condemning the Christians in this day as having gross and carnal conceptions of things refining Religion and the blessed holy glorious true real operative Manhood of Jesus Christ into Air Wind Fancy Nothing and all this under a pretence that they are fully for it but we have tried them and you now plainly perceive what their true Scriptural sense is which they speak of Pag. 13. We have done with that controversy concerning the Manhood of Christ now they undertake to vindicate Christopher Tayler whom we answered in a Postscript whom if he be living I thought was at years off to answer for himself And now say they to manifest how like a confused and distempered crazed man W. H. writes take a short view of some of his inconsistencies c. Pag. 13. Reply Christ my Lord was accounted mad by his own kindred and by others the Scribes and Pharisees the Apostle Paul by Agrippa and the false Teachers was thus stigmatized to be besides himself it was a common thing among the Papists thus to censure the Martyrs because Philpot in the Convocation house manifested but a little more then ordinary zeal against the Popish errors they gave it out that he was raging Bedlam mad this is an old trick of the Devil I could name you one of my Brethren that is full of zeal for Christ that they have not long since thus dealt with all must I think much then if in this I be conformed to Christ to his Apostles to the Martyrs and the worthiest of my Brethren no surely it is my honour and we have reason to pity this People that herein as in other things they make themselves so like the Antichristian Papists I could tell them of that common speech that some there be that are not in danger of madness and say again that it might discompose the most composed man still to converse with men in Bedlam They are at it again Pag. 16. Lest he fall into manifest distraction as may tend to his and your reproach for he appears in some danger Answ Questionless they have recourse in their thoughts to that Prophet of theirs Will. Baily who pronounced a dreadful sentence against me viz. that in the name of the living God I should be mad this was at Hartford in the hearing of many to the utter shame of all their Party that was there if they had but a dram of true Humility I am sure to the amazement of many of us and the
doth Christ say the work of the Comforter should be upon his sending of him John 15.26 He shall testify of me and John 16.14 He shall glorify me i. e. in the hearts of men for be shall receive of mine and shew it unto you Now if that Spirit which at present you boast of doth not this work viz. Enlighten your understandings aright in the truth of the Gospel though you may find a power as you often speak acting of you if this Spirit do not testify of the Christ of God begetting high thoughts of his Person Righteousness instructing your souls in his things his Death Resurrection Intercession his Priesthood in Heaven which you never talk of though it should have so much power in you as thereby you should be caught up and carried to Azotus though thereby you could as they say of Simon Magus fly in the Air yet it is not the Spirit of Christ Jesus the Comforter 1 Pet. 2.7 2 Cor. 13.14 2 Cor. 11.4 If Christ be not precious to you you are unbelievers I wish it might be considered there is no communion of the Spirit where the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ it not sweet to us where ever there is another Gospel and Jesus there is another spirit who ever hath not the Son hath not the Father how then can they have the Spirit No man speaking by the Spirit of God called Jesus accursed 1 Cor. 12.3 Be not deceived if this Gospel be hid the heart and life whereof consists in the knowledge of this point of Justification It is the Gospel of Righteousness it manifests the Righteousness without the Law Rom. 3.21 therein is the Righteousness of God revealed from Faith to Faith if this be hid though you may be very confident is is hid to them that are lost 2 Cor. 4.3 the God of this World having blinded their eyes O that you would remember what the Apostle said to the Galatians who thought they had as much of the Spirits Righteousness as the Quakers being corrupted in their judgments in this very matter yet had not cast off their mentioning of Christ but allowing him a place in their Religion Gal. 3.1 Gal. 5.4 who hath bewitched you and in another place ye are fallen from Grace and its a great convincing word Rom. 9.31 Israel which followed after the Law of Righteousness did not attain to the Law of Righteousness yet were as confident as you but I shall be despised for this my love in debating this matter with you and I doubt you will call this as Pag. 15. you do monstrous and distracted Doctrine The instances that I gave against Christopher Tayler to prove that we are not justified by works done in the Spirit are reckoned Pag. 14. viz. Abrahams works Davids works Paul's and Isaiahs works all done in the Spirit but not a word of answer to them no I calmly challenge them all to answer to them Only they ask a Question Is it good Doctrine to say that Paul when a Christian counted his spiritual obedience loss and dung for Christ Answ Yes very good sound blessed and comfortable Doctrine received by Millions of Saints in Heaven and Earth add but that which you ought for of that I speak viz. in the point of Justification in the same way are you to understand that of Isaiah Isa 64.6 all our Righteousnesses are as filthy rags i. e. as to justify us in Gods sight Pag. 15. they repeat the Question but slily addeth this to it viz. and that as a Christain he must suffer the loss of this i. e. his spiritual obedience so as not to have it in his heart O the creeping Serpent to insinuate as if I taught the people such Doctrine Answ Yes he was to have it still in his heart but not to plead it with God for his Justification Phil. 3.9 not having my own Righteousness which is of the Law c. But how can I make that out for which they quarrel me here Pag. 15. That all the Righteousness that all the Saints have within them or without them is but the Righteousness of the Law Answ It is not difficult otherwise the Law of God is not a perfect Rule of Righteousness but that must be grante Ergo it requires all we do and more then any can do not only outward duty but an inward spiritual upright frame of heart yea the Image of God to be compleat and perfect in us then my Argument holds good we are not justified by any Righteousness of ours done in the Spirit for the Scripture is peremptory in it by the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified in his fight Rom. 3.20 They produce two Scriptures here to prove Justification by the works of the Spirit in us First Rom. 8.2 The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and death Rom. 8.4 That the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us I have opened both these places in my Book against Crook and Bailie I am of that mind that they both speak as to our Justification of the Righteousness of Christs Person so they are nothing to their purpose if they will in their next plainly and openly say from the first Scripture that the Spirits work in us is the matter of our Justification and that the Law is fulfilled in our own persons for our acceptation from the second Scripture I promise them a fuller answer in the mean while we are of this mind that we are not justified by any works done by us in and by the Spirit yet we freely acknowledge that it is Regeneration makes us meet for the Kingdom but not in a way of Merit that is only by the blood-shedding of Jesus Christ but only disposeth us for Heaven without it none shall see the Lord Regeneration is to be distinguished from Justification as the Cause from the Effect Justification the cause of Regeneration if God did not forgive us our sins for the Merit of Christ he would not renew our nature we confess again that the Deity perfects all good in us and for us but them the Humanity is in union with it and acts with it and they must not be put asunder it was the Humanity that was the Offering and Sacrifice he offered himself by the eternal Spirit Heb. 9.14 The Flesh profiteth nothing i. e. alone it is the Spirit that quickneth John 6.63 yet the Flesh of Christ is the Organ and Instrument in by and with which Christ performs all his Mediatory works of Redemption and these two Natures are but one Person and whatever was done by the Spirit in the hearts of any before Christs manifestation in Flesh it was done in reference to and for the Merit of his Incarnation so then in the last place and then we have not left a hoof of an exception behind when I pray that the Spirit would settle strengthen preserve I believe that the Spirit is given