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A96388	The Christian doctrin [sic] and society of the people called Quakers; cleared from the reproach of the late division of a few in some part of America, as not being justly chargeable upon the body of the said people there or elsewhere.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1905; ESTC R233931	11,485	22

adventure to assert that opinion either as divinely Revealed or opened or as necessary to be believed or received as an Article of Faith or that will undertake to demonstrate how many times or Intervals of life they themselves have liv'd on Earth and what transactions or remarkable passages or things good or bad they have done or passed thorough in those their supposed past Intervals of Life The CONCLUSION TO conclude as we are perswaded want of walking in the true Light and want of Christian Charity is the great cause of Divisions in profest Christian Societies of all sorts and of this difference among a few persons in America professing the same Light and Truth with us We are ashamed of and surprised at the bitter language and severe Consequences and Treatment in some of the Printed Books from one party and exposing the weaknesses and unwarrantable expressions of some of the other to the open Enemies of both and of Religion it self all which as also to make any publick Rent in a Religious society on personal offences or Private Occasions are greatly unbecoming our Christian Profession Charity or Society And we pray God rebuke and stop this troublesome Spirit of Enmity and Division whereever it is for it makes great Disturbance and Trouble in the Creation and where it enters in Church or State yet it 's ill work is no new thing 't was the same Spirit that infested and troubled the Primitive Christian Churches causing Divisions and Offences contrary to the Gospel of Peace at first receiv'd and whereby parties and Schisms were made and one to say I am of Paul another of Apollo another of Cephas which Carnality the Apostle reproved as knowing and testifying that Christ whom they all profest is not divided and if Christian Tenderness and Charity might Influence all parties we see no real cause for these few persons aforesaid to divide or separate outwardly especially about Doctrin seeing both profess one Light one Spirit one God and one Lord Jesus Christ and Faith in him and sincerely to believe the holy Scriptures and even the person charging the other in Print to own the Body of the People called Quakers and seems to approve of our antient faithful and generally approved Friends Writers or Publishers of our Doctrins and Principles and Preachers among us generally owned and approved by us as Men of sound Judgment and understanding and as owning the fundamental Articles of the Christian and Protestant Faith Thus far the Person charging in his serious Appeal p. 6. As also the same person further openly signified at the other Friends meeting that he and his Friends had unity with the most there as to the main As also withall faithful Friends every where excepting only some in their meeting that were unsound c. Reason Causes p. 26. and therefore if most on both sides have Unity as to the Main we may charitably suppose they do not differ in the Main or substance of Christian Faith or Doctrin before cited and sincerely owned and confessed by us if tenderly and duly considered by both sides as Men seeking Peace Love and Concor'd Wherefore the difference was very indiscreetly managed aggravated and exposed to separation Printing and Reproach seeing 't was not in the Main We wholly dislike of such rending and tearing such dividing and aggravating proceedings and bitter Treatment and have no Unity therewith But desire the Lord in Mercy to Repair Breaches and heal Backslidings among them and all esteemed Christian Professions and Societies and incline all to the Main to the True Light to the substance and Life of Christianity to true Love fervent Charity and Tender-heartedness and Forgiveness towards one another and to follow Peace with all Men and Holiness without which no Man shall see the Lord. A POSTSCRIPT relating to the Doctrin of the Resurrection and Eternal Judgment AT the last trump of God and Voice of the Archangel the Dead shall be raised Incorruptible the Dead in Christ shall rise first 1 Cor. 15.52 1 Thes 4.16 compared with Mat. 24.31 Many are often alarum'd in Conscience here by the Word and Voice of God who stop their Pars and slight those Warnings but the great and final Alarum of the laft Trumpet they cannot stop their Ears against nor escape it will unavoidably seize upon and further awaken them finally to Judgment They that will not be alarum'd in their Consciences unto Repentance nor out of their Sins here must certainly be alarum'd to Judgment hereafter Whosoever do now wilfully shut their Eyes hate contem or shun the Light of Christ or his Appearance within shall at last be made to see and not be able to shun or hide themselves from his glorious and dreadful Appearance from Heaven with his mighty Angels as with Lightning and in flaming Fire to render Vengeance on all them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 7.8 Mat. 24.27 Luk. 17.24 Dan. 10.6 Job 37.3 And though many now evade and reject the Inward Convictions and Judgment of the Light and shut up the Records or Books thereof in their own Consciences they shall all be at last opened and every one judged of these things recorded therein according to their Works Rev. 20.12 13 14 15. Signed in behalf of our Christian Profession and People aforesaid George Whitehead Ambrose Rigg William Fallowfield James Parke Charles Marshall John Bowater John Vaughton William Bingley FINIS

b Matth. 28.19 c Joh. 1.1 2 3 4. We sincerely confess and believe in Jesus Christ both as he is true God and perfect Man d 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 e whereby we inwardly feel and taste of his goodness f 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 d Joh. 1.1 2. Rom. 9.5 1 Jo. 5.20 1 Tim. 2.5 e 1 Joh. 2.20 27. ch 1.1 f 1 Pet. 2.3 Joh. 6.33 35 51 57 58. That Divine Honour and Worship is due to the Son of God c and 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 d because of the glorious Union or Oneness of the Father and the Son e and that we cannot acceptably offer up Prayers or Praises to God nor receive a gracious Answer or Blessing from God but in and through his dear Son Christ c Joh. 5 23. Heb. 1.6 d 1 Cor. 1.2 Acts 7.59 e Joh. 10.30 1 Joh. 5.7 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 Glory f is not questioned by us His Flesh saw no Corruption g it did not corrupt but yet doubtless his Body was changed into a more glorious h and heavenly Condition than 't was in when subject to divers Sufferings on Earth but how and what manner of Change it met withal after 't was raised from the Dead so as to become such a glorious Body as 't is declared to be is too wonderful 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 ourselves wise above i what 's written as to the manner or condition of Christ's glorious Body as in Heaven no more than to enquire how Christ appeared in divers manners or forms k or how he came in among his 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 't was in on Earth otherwise how should our Low Body be changed so as to be made like unto his Glorious Body m for when he was on Earth and attended with Sufferings he was said to be like unto us in all Things Sin only excepted n which may not be so said of him as now in a state of Glory as he prayed for o otherwise where would be the Change both in him and in us f Luke 24 26. g Psal 16.10 Acts 2.31 13.35 37. h Phil. 3.21 i 1 Cor. 4.6 k Mark 16.12 Jo. 20.15 l Joh. 20.19 Luk. 24.36 37. ch 24.31 m Phil. 3.21 n Heb. 2.17 4.15 o Joh. 17.5 True and living Faith in Christ Jesus the Son of the living God p 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 q and also an Eye and Respect to the same Son of God r 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 quickening Spirit in us s whereby he is the immediate Cause Author Object and Strenth 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 in himself or 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 and Saviour t 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 within is sincerely waited in followed and obeyed There 's a blessed encrease of Light and Grace known and felt as the Path of the Just it shines more and more until the Perfect Day u and thereby a growing in Grace and in the knowledg of God and of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ hath been and is truly 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 divers Ministrations both of Judgment and Mercy both of Law and Gospel even that Gospel which is preacht in every intelligent Creature under Heaven It does not only as in its first Ministration 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 has obtained for Mankind on those Gospel-terms of Faith in his Name true Repentance and Conversion to Christ thereby required p Jo. 14.1 q Matt. 28.18 ch 11.27 John 17.2 Heb. 1.4 ch 2.8 r John 14.23 17.21 22 23 24 26. ver s 1 Cor. 15.45 Rom. 10.7 8. o Jo. 1.4.9 ch 3.19 20. ch 12.35 36 46. ch 8.12 u Prov. 4.18 Ps 36.9 So that the Light and Life of the Son of God within truly obeyed and followed as being the Principle of the second or new Covenant as Christ the Light is confessed to be even as he is the Seed or Word of Faith in all Men this does not leave Men or Women who believe in the Light under the first Covenant nor as Sons of the Bond-woman as the litteral Jews were when gone from the Spirit of God and his Christ in them but it naturally leads them into the new Covenant into the new and living way and to the Adoption of Sons to be Children and Sons of the Free-woman of Jerusalem from above 'T is true that we ought not to lay aside nor any to undervalue but highly to esteem true Preaching and the Holy Scriptures and the sincere Belief and Faith of