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An Account of the doctrine and discipline of Mr. Richard Davis of Rothwell, in the county of Northampton, and those of his separation with the canons of George Fox, appointed to be read in all the Quakers meetings.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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of our Blessed King Jesus as King of Souls Churches and Nations do firmly trusting to the sufficiency of Grace we have in him promise and resolve to maintain and abet his Spiritual b Heb. 3.8 Psal 2.6 Rev. 19.16 his Ecclesiastical and Temporal Rule over our Souls his Churches and Nations to the utmost And shall be ready as the Lord shall call us to testifie against the Opposers and Usurpers of this threefold Prerogative belonging to his Crown and Dignity carrying our Lives Liberties Estates and all that is dear to us in our hands to Sacrifice at his Feet for this end and purpose We also now are convinced that in our former Covenanting to perform all Duties required we chiefly engaged our selves to that first and great c Joh. 6.29.40 c. 3.16.18.39 verses Command of the Gospel viz. believing on the Person and Righteousness of Christ for d Heb. 11.4 Eternal Life Acceptance with God e Rom. 5.1 1 Pet. 1.8 9. Peace of Conscience f Joh. 6.53.56 57. Spiritual Light Life and Strength and every thing else necessary Therefore being greatly g Jerem. 3.13 ashamed of the constant and notorious breach of the Command of living by Faith and of our turning aside from the h Rom. 1.17 Gal. 3.11 Ez. 20. Heb. 3 12. vers 28. Living God the Fountain i Jerem. 2.13 of Living Waters to our own Cisterns that will hold no Water being under deep sense of the Guilt of our k John 2.15 Spiritual Adultery and Idolatry with the World and the things thereof our own l Gal. 3.1 comp Gal. 3. legal Performances or that call'd Gospel-Obedience our inherent m Jerem. 2.17 2 Cor. 12.7 compar'd with Cor. 9.19 Qualifications and Spiritual-Enjoyments which we advanced in the n Cor. 2.2 room and throne of the Mediator his Blood and Righteousness We now constrained from a sense of his pardoning Grace and in the strength and virtue of the Blood of the o Zach. 9.11 Heb. 19.14 Everlasting Covenant sprinkled on our Consciences do resolve to abide by Faith in Exercise in the p Joh. 15.2 c. Person q 1 Joh. 4.16 Love and r Ex. 28.35.43 Psal 89.15 16. Righteousness of Christ and as we have a Col. 26 c. receiv'd him our Root Surety and Representative so walking in him by Faith b Rev. 7.14 15. that we may continually walk with him c Phil. 2.1 in the Fellowship of the Spirit constantly d Jam. 1.25 beholding our selves by Faith in the glass of the perfect Law of Liberty e Eph. 4.30 Members of his Glorious Body f Col. 2.10 compleat in him and presented by him in the Body of his Flesh through Death g Eph. 5.27 not having spot or wrinkle or blemish but always h Col. 1.22 holy unblamable and unreprovable in his and his Father's fight and hereby deriving all Influence and Virtue i Joh. 1.16 from his Fullness for all manner of holy Conversation and Walk that thus a â—â—hn â—5 â—â— acting continually in his presence constrain'd by his b 2 Cor. 5.14 manifested Love c Heb. 4.14 15 1â— c. 10 â—â— 20 c. 1 John 18. encouraged by the blotting out of Guilt and Imperfection from our Persons Graces and Duty and they made perfect in him and his Grace we may always seek those things that are Above where Christ is having our d Phâ—l 2.20 Conversation in Heaven whence we look for the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and being all the day e Rom. 8.6.13 thus spiritually minded watching over our vain wandering Thoughts we may f Isa 62. â— continually make mention of his Name g Psal 71.6 Righteousness and h Isa 63.7 loving Kindness having our Speech always i Matth. 5.13 season'd with Salt administring Grace to the Hearers And being as the Salt of the Earth and of the Families we dwell in we may be day by day dying to Sin and living to Righteousness Rom. 8. k Tit. 2.12 denying Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and living righteously soberly and godly in this present World and with a Conversation l Phil. 1.27 becoming the Gospel We also do believe this direct acting of Faith on the Person of Christ for all things is m Jude 3. the Faith of the Gospel the Faith once deliver'd to the Saints which we ought earnestly to contend for and to resist all Oppositions thereto n Heb. 12.4 even unto Blood whether in our Souls in the Churches or other Sister Churches from the World and Carnal Professors Hence therefore laying hold on the strength of Christ though we know Unbelief will cleave to the lest of our Performances yet we will not plead for it nor indulge it as a little Sin much less as a Virtue or Grace but continually watch against it mourn over and loath it and slay it on the Head of the Sacrifice as the greatest o 1 John 5. Immorality because it gives the God of Truth the Lie and p Heb. 10.29 treads the Blood of the Covenant under foot and more especially the greatest Unbelief of q Mat. 14.31 questioning the Ability and Fulness of Christ to save us to the utmost And though we think it our present Duty not to reject all Preaching whose Doctrinal part treads in the steps of the first Reformers though the Application be mixed with some self-Darkness and Legality a Jude 22. putting difference between them and others pulling them out of the fire by love and familiarity yet b Jude 23. detesting every Garment of Doctrine so far as it is spotted with the Flesh of Man's Wisdom Yet notwithstanding all those under what Name or Denomination soever whose Tenents corrupt the Doctrine of the Person of Christ either denying or lessening his God-head his Humane Nature or mystical Union of both Natures in one Person or else separating the Natures or confounding them As likewise all those that add the least mixture to Christ's Righteousness though it be their own acts of Faith in point of Acceptance Acquittance and the obtaining of Peace of Conscience and who * T … 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and infinitely free in the purpose of God in Election in the publick and indefinite Manifestation of it in the a Rom. 56.10 Person of Christ by Redemption and in b Rom. 4.5 Ephes 2.8 2 Tim. 1.9 actual conferring of it and manifesting of it in effectual Vocation to a particular Soul who also make Faith and Repentance foreseen as Conditions of the Eternal Election and of the Redemption of Christ Jesus and Faith and Repentance actual in the Soul the preparative federal Conditions of possessing the Blessings of Election in Christ our Head whether it be Christ's actual influential Union to us Justification Adoption or any other Grace whatever But especially the Perverters of the Gospel those most refined and subtil reserves
of Antichrist singled out to support its tottering Cause in this his last War with the Lamb in these last days who c Gal. 1.7 pervert the Gospel turning it up-side down asserting Faith Repentance and Holiness to be given to the Soul before the Person of Christ and his Righteousness denying that blessed Order of the tenders and gifts of the Gospel which is first the d Rom. 8.32 Son of God freely and then all things freely with him refusing him and his Righteousness to have the e Col. 1.18 pre-eminence in all things f 1 Joh. 5.12 even in their actual bestowment as they ought to have And besides all this wickedly intruding a new Law of their own Invention requireing imperfect Faith and Repentance and Gospel Obedience on Man's part as the imperfect and sinful Conditions of the Gospel-Justification thereby g Rom. 3.31 vacating the good old righteous Law of God setting up Terms of obtaining Spiritual Blessings exceeding derogatory to the Holiness of God's Nature Ways and Laws and contrary to the freeness of his Love and Grace from the Eternal Purpose thereof in Election even unto the Execution of Electing Grace here and in Glory We do declare and protest against them and their Doctrine and likewise all those that teach us to h 1 Cor. 1.31 2 Tim. 2.1 glory in any thing but the Lord or be strong in any other Grace but that Grace that is in Christ Jesus And do resolve in the strength of Christ's Grace to testifie all manners of ways even unto our Blood against any other Gospel than the Gospel of our dear Lord and against all other Doctrines than those that are i Tim. 6.3 Tit. 11.1 according to Godliness and if Men most noted for knowledge and Holiness or an k Gal. 1.9 Angel from Heaven preach any other Gospel and maintain those Tenents before-mention'd we do in the presence and strength of Christ promise and engage to witness against them by publick Preaching and declaring against such Principles by withdrawing from them and not receiving them to our Houses nor bidding them God's speed according to the Command of the Lord 2 John 10. and by cheerfully and triumphantly delivering our Possessions Liberties and Blood as a Testimony against them and their pernicious ways if called thereto We likewise now judge and are perswaded that when we Covenanted with one another to follow the Lord in the Observation of Gospel Ordinances and the performance of all relative Duties in this Church we professed for all his Ecclesiastical Interest and * Ezek. 43.11 gave up our selves to walk with him and one another in all the Forms Laws Ordinances and Statutes in his House all which Forms and Statutes are most holy and a Ez. 43.13 tend to promote Holiness in the b Psal 15. Holy Citizens of Zion Particularly that we are thereby obliged and by his Word to love our Lord and King with the c Gal. 5.6 highest love and to testifie love to him by keeping all his Commands in his d Joh. 14.15 Mat. 10.40 c. 18.17 18. House to Honour Reverence and bow to his Authority and Power lodged therein and that Authority also as cloathing his e Heb. 13.17 Officers Ruling in his Name to f 1 Pet. 5.3 maintain the Rights and Privileges of any particular Church his Clergy his Body g 1 Cor. 12.27 against all Innovations and Usurpations from Officers or Members within from Sister Churches or their Officers without not committing by Delegation the Power and Judgment of the Church to any h 2 Cor. 2.6 minority of it because thereby the form and fashion of a Gospel Church is alter'd and is not according to the Pattern in the Mount We farthermore see that we ought to maintain towards each other pure Love and unfeigned in all the Roots and Springs and Effects thereof and i 1 Rom. 12.9 1 Pet. 1.22 to watch against all defects therein either in Root or Branch And therefore we being now griev'd for great decays on us in our love towards the Lord Jesus and to one another do in the presence and might of our Blessed Advocate and Intercessor promise and resolve to abide in the Love of Christ k Joh. 15.9 that our Hearts may be stirr'd up to love him and in love to obey his Royal Laws particularly to reverence and subject to his awful Power and Authority in Church Assemblies as if he were himself personally among us not affronting his Presence by a slight Carriage nor his Majesty there on his Throne by proud rebellious undervaluing Thoughts by passionate Reflectings Revilings or contemptuous Speeches or by any unbecoming Carriage or Gesture whatever nor despising his Dominion in his House as the l Jud. 8. 2 Pet. 10.11 filthy Dreamers of old not grieving nor quenching his Spirit nor stubbornly nor rebelliously despising and rejecting his Admonitions in his Church not thinking his Yoak heavy nor his Burden weighty but counting it an unvaluable Blessing to be under his strictest and highest Watch and Care in his Church Matth. 11.30 And if his Children which God forbid should err in the Judgment of any of us we shall by Praying for them by Reasoning with them from Christ's Rules in his Bowels Meekness and with our own bringing the Advice of other Sister Churches most faithful to Christ endeavour to reduce them but shall not slight them nor uncover their Nakedness because they are the Throne of Christ's Glory and the place of the Soles a Ezek. 43.7 of his Feet least we should thereby wound his Person his Honour affront his Majesty Crown and Dignity in his House We that are Rulers do in the presence of Christ engage to rule faithfully diligently b Rom. 12.8 and couragiously c Josh 1.6 7 9. in Faith in the fear of God d Sam. 23.3 in Meekness e Gal. 6.1 2. Tim. 2.25 Lev. 25.43 and Authority f Tit. 2.15 hating Covetousness and Partiality g Ex. 18.21 having took the over sight of the Flock of God which he has purchas'd with his own Blood and not for filthy Lucres sake nor out of constraint h 1 Pet. 5.2 3. not ceasing to warn them Night and Day with Tears i Acts 20.29 c. watching against the Assaults of Satan and their own Corruptions against grievous Wolves that may not spare them and against them that may arise among themselves speaking perverse things endeavouring to turn them aside from the Lord that bought them k Tim. 1. to 8th Tit. 1. â— to the End Tiâ— 2.1.7 8. We also that are ruled in the Church of Christ do before our Crowned King and strengthened with his might solemnly promise to obey our Rulers set over us in the Lord to follow their Faith and consider the ends of their Conversation to submit our selves to them according to the Word of the Lord for they watch for our