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The Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers, asserted. Being a brief account of their faith in relation to divers matters where-in their Christian belief is questioned. Published in behalf of the people of God called Quakers by some of them.
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Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
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in Jesus Christ both as he is true God and Perfect Man and that he is the Author of our living Faith in the Power and Goodness of God as manifest in his Son Jesus Christ and by his own Blessed Spirit or divine Unction revealed in us whereby we inwardly feel and taste of his goodness life and Vertue So as our souls live and Prosper by and in him And the inward sense of this Divine Power of Christ and faith in the same and this inward experience is absolutely necessary to make a true sincere and perfect Christian in spirit and life That divine honor worship is due to the Son of God that he is in true faith to be prayed unto and the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ called upon as the primitive Christians did because of the Glorious Union or oneness of the Father and the Son and that we cannot acceptably offer up prayers or praises to God the Father not receive a gracious answer or blessing from him but in and through his Dear Son Christ. That CHRIST's Body that was Crucified was not the God-head yet by the Power of GOD was raised from the Dead and that the same CHRIST that was therein Crucified ascended into Heaven and Glorie is not questioned by us His Flesh saw no Corruption it did not corrupt but yet doubtless his Body was changed into a more Glorious and Heavenlie Condition that 't was in when subject to divers Sufferings on Earth but how and what manner of Change it met withall after it was raised from the Dead so as to become such a Glorious Body as 't is declared to be is too wonderfull for Mortals to Conceive Apprehend or Pry into and more meet for Angels to see The Scripture is silent therein as to the manner thereof and we are not Curious to Enquire or Dispute it nor do we esteem it necessary to make our selves Wise above what 's written as to the Manner and Condition of Christ's Glorious Body as in Heaven no more than to Enquire how Christ appeared in divers Manners of Formes or how he came in among the Disciples the Doors being shut l or how he vanished out of their sight after he was risen However we have cause to believe his Body as in heaven is changed into a most Glorious Condition far transcending what it was on Earth otherwise how should our low Body be Changed so as to be made like unto his Glorious Body For when he was ou Earth and attended with Sufferings he was said to be like unto us in all things sin only excepted which may not be so said of him as now in a state of Glory as he prayed for otherwise where would the Change be both in him and in us True and living Faith in Christ Jesus the Son of the Living God has respect to his entire Being and Fulness to him entirely as in himself and as all Power in Heaven and Earth is given unto him and also an Eye and Respect to the same Son of God as inwardly making himself known in the Soul in every Degree of his Light Life Spirit Grace and Truth and as he is both the Word of Faith and a Quickning Spirit in us whereby he is the immediate Cause Author Object and Strength of our Living Faith in his Name and Power and of the Work of our Salvation from Sin and Bondage of Corruption and the Son of God cannot be divided from the least or lowest Appearance of his own Divine Light or Life in us or in Mankind no more than the Sun from its own light nor is the sufficiency of his Light within by us set up in opposition to him the Man Christ or his Fulness considered as without us nor can any Measure or Degree of Light received from Christ as such be properly called the Fulness of Christ or Christ as in Fulness nor exclude him so considered from being our Compleat Saviour for Christ himself to be our Light our Life our Saviour is so consistent that without his Light we could not know life nor him to save us from sin or deliver us from darkness condemnation or wrath to come And where the least degree or measure of this Light and Life of Christ is sincerely waited in followed and obeyed there 's a blessed encreass of Light and grace known and felt as the path of the Just it shines more and more untill the perfect day and thereby a growing in Grace and in the knowledge of God and of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ hath been and is truely experienced and this Light Life or spirit of Christ within for they are one Divine Principle is sufficient to lead into all Truth having in it the diverse Ministerations both of Judgement and mercy both of Law and Gospel even that Gospel which is Preached in every intelligent Creature under Heaven it does not only as in its First Ministeration Manifest Sin and reprove and condemn for sin but also excites and leads them that believe in it to true Repentance and thereupon to receive that mercy Pardon and Redemption in Christ Jesus which he hath obtained for Mankind on those Gospel terms of Faith in his name true repentance and Conversâ—â—ion to Christ thereby required Now though we had the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and 〈◊〉 a belief of Christ crucified and raised c. We never knew the mystery thereof until we were turned to the Light of his Grace and Spirit within us We knew not what it was to be Reconciled by his Death and Saved by his Life or what it was to know the fellowship of his Sufferings the Power of his Resurrection or to bâ— made comformable to his Death we knew not untill he opened our eyes and turned our minds from darkness unto his own Divine Light and Life within us Notwithstanding we do sincerely and greatly esteem and value the Holy Scriptures Preaching and Teaching of faithful divinely inspired gifted and qualified persons Ministers of Jesus Christ as being great outward helps and Instrumental in his hand and by his spirit for Conversion where God is pleased to afford those outward helps means as that we neither do nor may oppose the sufficiencie of the Light or Spirit of Christ within to such outward helps so as to reject disesteem or undervalue them for they all proceed form the same Light and Spirit and tend to turn Peoples minds thereunto and all center therein Nor can the Holy Scriptures or true Preaching without be Justly set in opposition to the Light or Spirit of God or Christ within for his Faithful Messenger are Ministers thereof being sent to turn People to the same Light and Spirit iâ— them Acts 26. 18. Rom. 1. 2. 2 Cor. 4. 6. 1 Peter 2. 9. 1 John 2. 8. 'T is certain that great is the Mystery of Godliness in it self in its own