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A31664	A brief apology in behalf of the people in derision call'd Quakers written for the information of our sober and well-inclined neighbors in and about the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts. by Wil. Chandler, Alex. Pyott, Jo. Hodges, and some others.	Chandler, William.; Pyott, Alex. (Alexander); Hodges, Jo.	1694 (1694)	Wing C1934A; ESTC R35979	36,422	93

Mat. 5.8 Heb. 12.14 that without it we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven nor see God Nor is the way broader or its Passage less strait and difficult than they imagine nay 't is utterly impossible for them to walk therein while they are immers'd in their first corrupt unbridled Nature which cannot keep the Law of God while their Lusts and Passions are rampant their Affections inordinate and Wills unsubjected and follow the Desires and evil Inclinations of their Minds without restraint But if they come to know another Principle and Power to govern their Minds to create in them new clean Hearts to regulate and subject their Wills to subdue and tame their Passions to limit their Desires and direct their Affections and Inclinations wholly after that which is good to meliorate their Spirits throughout and make them Heavenly Minded having an aversion to all Evil and a great love to Vertue and Goodness Being thus perfectly transformed where is the extream difficulty now for the good Man Mat. 12.35 out of the good Treasure of his Heart to bring forth good things Will not this new well-inclin'd inside that now detests Evil and loves and delights in Righteousness as naturally follow after and bring forth that which is Good as before he did Evil Here is no force upon Peoples Natures but they are converted and throughly leavened into another Nature and are in their measures Partakers of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1.4 which only can work the Will of God We request our piously-inclined Neighbours well and seriously to weigh and consider the absolute necessity there is for every true Christian thus to know their Minds moulded and fashioned anew by the Power and Spirit of Christ working mightily in them Col. 1.29 in order to their pleasing God by a Holy Righteous Life having escaped the corruption that is in the World through Lust and considering that 't is not so soon attained as apprehended in the Understanding to be necessary That with all diligence they address themselves to the performing that which is the main and proper business of our Lives Wherefore as it hath pleased the Divine Power to give us all things pertaining to Life and Godliness 2 Pet. 1.3 Tit. 2.11 12. Phil. 2.12 13. so let us with a vigilant attention to and co-working with that Grace which to that end is given work out our Salvation with a reverend fear since a good degree of attainment herein is soon lost except there be a constant sedulous watchfulness upon the Mind amidst all Business and Concerns to have a check upon our Words and Thoughts and a diligent pressing forward Mat. 26.41 For while we live in this World we are liable to Temptations and may enter there●nto also without a strict care and watchfulness our Senses presenting many Baits to our Minds on every and which Satan makes use of to ●eguile and many Provocations offer ●hemselves in our Pilgrimage 2 Cor. 12.9 against ●ll which God's Grace is sufficient Armour as our Minds are seasoned by ●t so that where any shortness is 't is ●hrough Insincerity Negligence or In●dvertency Or is it a dangerous heinous Heresie that we with very many Professors of Christianity Psal 145.9 believe the Universa●ity of the Love of God to all Mankind that God who is good to all whose Mercies extend to all the Works of his Hands is sincere in his Intention and Attestation thereof and doth not design to delude us when he affirms That as certainly as he lives he desires not the death of a Sinner Ezek. 33.11 18.23 Joh. 3.14 15 16 17. Isa 55.1 Rev. 22.17 Ro. 5.18 but rather that he would return and Live that God whose Love and Mercy is unlimited doth graciously and generously offer Salvation through Jesus Christ upon certain Conditions to be performed on our part to all Mankind to every individual Man and Woman upon the face of the Earth which is the true Gospel-message Luke 2.10 14. good Tydings of great Joy which shall be to all People Peace on Earth and good will towards Men good cause indeed to rejoyce Isa 55.7 Ezek. 18.21 22 to the end Act. 10.34 35. 1 Joh. 2.2 Heb. 2.9 that all are within the verge of Mercy and free Pardon that God is indeed no Respecter of Persons but among all Nations and People he or she that fears him and works Righteousness is of him accepted and that Christ died for the Sins of the whole World yea for every Man surely then all for whom he died Tit. 2.11 are thereby put into a capacity for Salvation 1 Cor. 12.7 See Pro. 1. from 20 to the end that Saving Grace hath appeared to all Men and a Manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Man to profit withal And that none are Reprobated but those that continue to be deaf to the Calls of this Grace Mat. 23.37 and resist the Spirit and hide and neglect their Talents till the day of their Visitation be over and Christ so withdraws himself as to cease longer to strive with them Neh. 9.20 26. so that the means being taken away they are left to themselves Isa 63.10 Psal 81.11 12 13. and given up to Hardness of Heart that being absent that should prepare tender and mollifie it that now they cannot Repent Believe and be Converted If thus to believe be a dangerous ●nd pernicious Error we confess we are Guilty and not like to be otherwise for we cannot perswade our selves to embrace that Anti-evangelical Opinion That God from all Eternity hath personally and inconditionally without respect to their accepting or rejecting the Salvation offer'd in Christ elected some and reprobated others by an immutable Decree so that those who are so elected shall certainly be saved let them do what they will for God's Decree can't be revers'd let the unstable Mind of Man vary as it will And those that are Reprobated were in in effect damned Thousands of Years before they were born so that their Salvation is put beyond all hope let them seek it never so earnestly and diligently and be never so desirous to serve and please God For besides that this sad Tidings instead of glad Tidings if it were really true in it self puts an end to the whole business of Religion by rendring all Worship and Devotion all Preaching Praying Assembling together and Holy Living as 't were useless by invalidating all whatsoever on Man's part as nothing contributing as a necessary Condition on his part to be performed or neglected towards his Salvation or eternal Destruction We dare not take up an Opinion so diametrically opposite to the very Attributes of God and his repeated Protestations to the contrary and with some Men thus presume to arraign his Justice Mercy and Goodness We cannot believe that God who is Love it self and Goodness it self and hath always manifested a wonderful Care and Concern for Man as his darling Creature Wis