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A65863	The divinity of Christ and unity of the three that bear record in heaven with the blessed end and effects of Christ's appearance, coming in the flesh, suffering and sacrifice for sinners, confessed and vindicated, by his followers, called Quakers : and the principal matters in controversie, between them, and their present opposers (as Presbyterians, Independants, &c.) considered and resolved, according to the scriptures of truth, and more particularly to remove the aspersions ... cast upon the ... Quakers ... in several books, written by Tho. Vincent, Will. Madox, their railing book, stil'd The foundation, &c, Tho. Danson, his Synopsis, John Owen, his Declaration / which are here examin'd and compared by G.W. ... ; as also, a short review of several passages of Edward Stillingfleet's ... in his discourse of the sufferings of Christ's and sermon preached before the King, wherein he flatly contradicts the said opposers.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1669 (1669)	Wing W1925; ESTC R19836	166,703	202

until the Law Sin was in the World but Sin is not imputed where there is no Law verse 13. But now mark there is a Law transgressed whereby Sin and Transgression is imputed to them that are guilty of transgression as all in Adam in the earthly state and nature are and therefore on the other hand righteousness is not imputed to persons out of Christ or to such that are not partakers of his righteousness Pag. 45. Arg. 4. Quaker A man cannot be said to be actually sinfull and imputatively righteous he may as well be said to be actually damned and imputatively saved To which T. D. answereth Why not as well as to say a man is actually poor and not worth a groat but imputatively rich as having by Surety paid his debt of thousands Reply Here he hath plainly discovered their notion of Imputation and the falseness of it viz. that a man is imputatively righteous when actually sinfull or actually damned and yet imputatively saved what gross Corruption and Ignorance is this and what an improper Comparison doth he bring to back it let the wise judge and we do not admit of it in this case as that a man should be actually damned and imputatively saved or actually guilty and yet imputatively innocent but that such to whom righteousness and true riches are reckoned as being theirs have right therein and are partakers thereof and what he asserts herein by his simile is but a beging the question and taking that for granted which is still opposed as both unscriptural and unreasonable viz. men being actually damned and imputatively saved or actually guilty and imputatively innocent by the same reason he might as well say persons really Theeves are innocent or persons really and actual trecherous and rebellious are true and good Subjects or actually Devils and imputatively Saints But Christ being or becoming our Suerty was not to impute righteousness to men in transgression but to bring them into Covenant and Peace with God which stands in everlasting righteousness and not in sin for he was also a perfect example to be followed as well as profest and he is the Surety of the new Testament and Covenant which is spiritual and is manifested and enjoyed in his people And T. D's instance that nine men throughout a mutinous Army are actually guilty and yet imputatively innocent when the tenth man is admited to sustain the punishment due to the rest is as sottish and impertinent as the rest before for neither is a mutinous Army innocent nor is Christ any of the mutinous or guilty Persons And where proves T.D. that Imputation is an Act of Law and makes a Relative and not a real change I ask what Law it is an act of is it real or true or no if it be of God it must be true if not then false and it is a false imputation which is not real and contrary to the Apostles Doctrine who knew that Abraham's Faith was imputed or reckoned to him for righteousness and to that state to which there was no condemnation but justification which was a state of being walking in Christ and not a walking after the Flesh but after the Spirit and this they that experience and witness know a real change from death to life from condemnation to justification from sin to righteousness from the wayes of death and darkness to the wayes of Life Light and Peace Pag. 45. T. D. saith There is no need of inherent Righteousness for Justification bu● yet there is need of it for other ends as to make us meet for Heaven Col. 1.12 Answ. It appears that he means by this inherent righteousness that of Sanctification or the work of Gods Spirit within which he afterwards calls personal righteousness and is there no need of this for Justification what darkness is here as if men were justified while in the unsanctified state this is like the rest of his sottish stuff quite contrary to the Apostles Doctrine which is But ye are Sanctified but ye are Justified in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6.11 And also what contradiction hath T. D. brought to himself herein whilst he hath confessed that the word Justifie signifieth to make Just as also he hath confessed that inherent Righteousness as he call it gives a fitness of enjoying the Heavenly Inheritance it lying in Communion with God pag. 46. then it follows that it gives a fitness for Justification whilst Justification and Sanctification are unseparable Companions and God loves his Image in his People freely saith his Brother T. V. Thus without Washing Clensing and Sanctification men are not Justified seeing the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God and they that live in unrighteousness cannot be accepted of him It being not the Hearers of the Law but the Doers that shall be Justified Pag. 46. And now concerning good works that are acceptable to God which T. D. accuseth us with placing Merit for Justification or as a deserved cause thereof c. Concerning this particular that faithfull Servant of the Lord S. Fisher hath very fully answered T. D. and his Brethren and it hath been manifest how he did wrong and abuse S. Fisher about this point and how contrary to his intent he construed good works as being ours relating to self works or imperfect obedience which S. Fisher never intended but with Relation to those works which are perfect which Christ is the Author of which if Christs Works be not deserving whose are and to those which God hath wrought in us who having ordained Peace for us hath wrought all our works in us Isa. 26. now we never placed a merit upon self-acting nor upon mans best works in the faln sinfull and corrupt state so that there is not a correspondency betwixt us and the Papists in this particular as falsly we have been accused see S. Fisher's Rusticus ad Accademicos where the point is fully explained which you Presbyterians and Independants are never able to answer Where did we ever profess or hold forth that we were able or could fulfil the Law our selves or merit or deserve Salvation by any thing that we could do but we do profess and witness that through the Power of Christ we are enabled to faithfull and sincere obedience not of our selves knowing that good works how ever rejected and undervalued are ordained of God and without them your faith is dead as a body without a Spirit is And it is true enough as T. D. saith That you are averse to obedience through corruptions who plead for sin term of life and yet would cover over all your filthy raggs with a pretence of Christ's Righteousness Satisfaction Imputation Justification and Merit whilst you are yet in your sins and corruptions and in the weakness of your flesh but as under the Law of works wherein you are in no perfect obedience Pag. 47. Seeing the Law of Faith is acknowledged I ask how far it

was the Word and all things were made by the Word and were all things made by the Scriptures And we say the Scriptures are a better Rule than your Directory for if the Scriptures be the Rule why do you set up a Directory to be your Rule What! will you bore out Peoples eyes that they shall not see how you dissemble And why did you make a Church Faith at Savoy in eleaven dayes time if the Scriptures be your Rule But it seems the Scriptures are not a sufficient Rule for you but your Directory and your Church Faith it seems is your Rule Scriptures are not sufficient to be your Rule And why do you deny Common Prayer and set up a Directory and a Church Faith of your own making And there in your Directory do you not set up your Imaginations and Meanings above Scriptures Come People will not sell their Wits Reason and Understanding Come People you all know that when you come to discourse with these Presbyterians or Independants about Scriptures who say it is their Rule they will presently fall and give it a meaning and say it is their Opinion and Judgement and conceive it to be so And so then the Presbyterians and Independants Meanings and Opinions and Thinkings and Conceivings and Imaginations and Judgements this must be the Rule and not the Scripture then you must not take it as the Scriptures speake The Quakers will take it Literally cry they and these have been the Presbyterian and Independant tricks this long time What think you do we not know your tricks And so you would make People believe what an Esteem you have of Scriptures when it is nothing but Meanings and old Directory and Church Faith Do you think we have forgot your old Malice and Envie when you haled above three thousand of us to Prison in the other Powers dayes and persecuted to Death about thirty three which stands upon Record to this day whose Blood you have drunk and mingled with your Sacrifice and whose innocent Blood lies upon your heads Was the Scripture your Rule to do thus Nay Christ bids you love Enemies let Scripture be your Rule Have you not been like Judas and the Persecuting Jewes and the Heathen that Persecuted the true Christians You have banished the Rule which is to love Enemies and love one another And Christ saith Freely ye have received freely give But you will not give freely for you have not received freely You will have the Club and the Bagg For what havock have you made of them that could not put into your mouths what Imprisoning and spoyling of Goods did you make when you had Power this is not Gospel this is besides the Rule You are worse than the outward Jewes for where did they ever take trebble damages of them that did not hire them It was time for the Lord to bring you down who are judged by your own Rule 10 thly And why do you belye the Quakers with saying That your good Works that is of self are the Meritorious Cause of Justification Answ. Christ Works all our Works in us and for us who is our Justifier S. F. hath sufficiently cleared this matter and answered you 11 thly And where doth the Scripture say The Works of Faith and the Works of Grace and the Fruits of the Spirit are sinful 12 thly And where do the Scriptures hold forth the Sprinkling of Infants and call it an Ordinance and tell of a Sacrament and call it an Ordinance Let us see Scripture for these things and that the Apostles practised them as you do and whether your practises were according to theirs And have you the same Power and Spirit as they had that gave forth Scriptures Answer plainly in plain words of Scripture that you do not err from the Words and Rule which you say is your Rule But do you not remember you Presbyterians and Independants what havock you made of the Goods of the People of God whom in scorn you called Quakers because they would not pay for the Bread and Wine you eat and drunk you drunk it your selves and eat it your selves and made them Pay for it did the Apostles ever do so to spoyl any ones Goods because they would not pay for their Bread and Wine they eat and drunk Come let us see your Scripture your Rule which you boast so much of for these things who make People believe it is your Rule let us see a Rule for this But you grumble because you have not Power to fall upon the Quakers to make them pay for your Bread and Wine you eate and drink as you have done formerly and then when you have done boast that Scripture is your Rule and you say this is Gospel this is Glad Tydings is it and then you spoyl their Goods for your Bread and Wine Where were you in the time of Persecution we could see but few of you then for then you slunk into Holes and Corners had out your Scouts and now when you have a little Liberty what a bawling you make against Quakers You are a little hungry bitten because you have not Tythes and Easter Reckonings and Midsummer Dues and Money of the Quakers for your Bread and Wine will you avenge your self of the Quakers 13 thly And do you not say That your Sanctification and Justification and your Prayers and Graces and Faith all are imperfect as manifest in you Is not Christ Justification and Sanctification And must you not Pray in the Spirit of God And is it not perfect What darkness is this Must not Christ be in you And is not he in you and Faith in you and the Spirit of God in you to Pray by And so if it be imperfect then it is your own Praying and your own Justitication and Sanctification and Faith and Application it 's of your own making and not Christ's for Christ is perfect who Sanctifies and Justifies and his Spirit is perfect Priest Danson Presbyterian how now Dost thou not bring Cardinal Pool and Aquinas and Aristotle to prove thy Assertions and thy Imaginations it seems Scripture is not sufficient Thou wouldst make People believe that the Presbyterians were against the Papists and Heathen both but now they must be the Presbyterians Patrons and yet could make People believe that the Scriptures were their Rule but this must be their Rule the Papists and the Heathen Read Danson's Synopsis of his Quakerism what a bundle of Lyes he hath drawn up together he may take them home to himself 14 thly And why do you Presbyterians cry against the Quakers Light which is Christ as being but an Heathenish light and now to oppose them you are fain to run to the Heathen and to the Papists to find Arguments and then tell People the Scripture is your Rule O Deceipt 15 thly Where doth the Scripture speak of an Humane Nature of Christ in Heaven Is not Christ and his Body Glorified and he the Lord from Heaven for is not