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A40181 An exhortation to all that profess themselves Christians and say the scripture is their rule for their life doctrine and practice / by George Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1680 (1680) Wing F1816; ESTC R30369 10,101 20

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Apostle saith the same So we do preach the free Gospel free Grace to you and turn you from the Darkness to the Light and from the Power of Satan unto God that you may see the new Covenant of Light Life and Grace and practise it And Christ in his new Covenant saith and commandeth his Ministers Freely you have received freely give And the Apostle's Glory was To keep the Gospel without Charge who coveted no man's Silver nor Gold nor Apparel c. And he said He had declared unto the Church the whole Counsel of God And yet he never declared to any in all his Writings Decrees or Epistles or any other of the Apostles That the Ministers of the Gospel should take Tythes and Offerings and hale them into Courts and spoil their Goods and cast them into Prison until Death if they would not give them Tythes and Offerings or Curse them them that did not bring in their Tythes into the Store-house according to the old Law of Moses in the old Covenant for they were redeemed from under the Law and the Curse And likewise he never declared in his whole Counsel of God That they should keep the Dayes of the Birth or Death of any of the Saints and call them Holy Days And he never declar'd in all his Counsel of God That they should name their Meeting-houses after the Saints Names Also he never declared in his whole Counsel of God That Children should have God-fathers and God-mothers and that Priests should sprinkle them with outward Water and sign them with the Sign of the Gross But said There was one Faith and one Baptism and that they were baptised into one Body with one Spirit and so made to drink into one Spiris and they that were baptized into Christ had put him on Likewise the Apostle never declared in his whole Counsel of God That the Saints should observe a Time of Lent and abstain from Flesh and eat Fish or that the Saints should observe the Time of Easter which was the time of the Jews Passover or that they should observe the Time of Whitsuntide called Pentecost or that they should observe and keep Christ's Birth Day and call it Christmass-day c. Now if you say The Apostles in their Decrees or Epistles did command the Church to do and observe such things then I pray you tell us where it is written that we like the noble Bereans may search for it And be not Angry nor Offended with us because we do not follow you in these things who say The Scripture is your Rule for Life Doctrine and Practice and yet cannot make these your Practices and Doctrine good by Scripture And now if Christ and the Apostle and Apostles who declar'd the whole Counsel of God to the Church in their dayes if they declared none of these things before-mentioned which you practise to be the Counsel of God then have not you set them up in that spirit that is apostatized from the Power and Spirit the Apostles were in and have compelled others to follow your Practices which you have commanded and taught for Doctrine which Christ and the Apostles did not which Practices you cannot make good by Christ and the Apostles Doctrine in the Scriptures of Truth of the new Testament And therefore how can you expect that we should follow you For the Apostle saith Follow us as we follow Christ So according to the Apostle's teaching we are to follow you no farther than you follow Christ you cannot expect it if you own Christ and the Apostles and their Doctrine for Christ saith Freely you have received freely give and this is his Command which is to be obey'd and it is obeyed by all them that receive their Gifts for the Work of their Ministry which is for the perfecting of the Saints from him that is ascended up on high But they that have received their Natural Gifts below cannot endure to hear of Christ's Doctrine who ascended up on high who gave Gifts unto men for the Work of the Ministry and commanded them Freely they had received freely they should give it again And where did the Apostle who said He had declared unto the Church the whole Counsel of God declare That the Saints and Christians should call the Dayes of the Week by the Names of Munday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Fryday Saturday and Sunday and the like which were the Names of the Heathens Gods after whom the Heathens called the Dayes Or where did the Apostle declare that the Christians should call the Moneths by the Names of January May June July and August c which were Names given by the Heathens and Emperors And where did the Apostle that said He had declared unto the Church the whole Counsel of God declare or direct that they should call any of the days Candlemass Michaelmass-day Martinmass-day Christmass-day and Lammas●day and the like You that say The Scripture is your Rule for your Life Doctrine and Practice bring it forth and be not Angry with us who cannot follow you in these things who never yet produced any Scripture for these your Practices From him who loveth the Ancient Primitive Truth and True Christianity that Christ taught and the Apostles and Primitive Church lived in and desires that all may come into it and live and walk in it G. Fox The 18th of the 9th Moneth 1679. Postscript THE Apostle saith in Rom. 16. Greet Priscilla and Aquila my Fellow-Helpers in Christ-Jesus which have for my Life laid down their own Necks unto whom not I only give Thanks but also all the Congregations of the Gentiles Likewise greet the Congregation that is in their House Here the old Translation calls the Church a Congregation that was in their House and not the outward House a Church or Congregation for it is not proper to call an outward House a Congregation And in 1 Cor. 16. The Congregation in their House And Phebe was a Minister of the Congregation at Cenchrea So she was a Minister of a People and not of an outward House which Paul commends and sent his Epistle by Phebe a Minister from Corinth to Rome see Rom. 16. And the Apostle Paul when he writes to Philemon and to the Congregation that was in his House So the outward House was not the Congregation see Philemon And John writes to the Seven Congregations in Asta Now he doth not write to the Seven Houses that were in Asia and call them Churches but he writes to the People that were the Congregations or Churches And John saith seven times over He that hath an Ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the Congregations that is the Congregations or Churches of People gathered together For outward Houses have no Ears to hear which you call Churches And therefore he doth not write to Houses and call them Congregations or Churches as you may see in Rev. 1 2. 3. Chapters in the Old Tranflation And again the Apostle Paul saith in Ephes 5. For the Husband is the Wife's Head even as Christ is the Head of the Congregation and the same is he that ministreth Salvation unto the Body therefore as the Congregation is in subjection to Christ c. Here the Apostle doth not say an outward House is in Subjection to Christ And Paul saith in Col. 1. He to wit Christ is the Head of the Body even of the Congregation c. So the Apostle doth not say Christ is the Head of an outward House but of the Congregation or Church his People And therefore people read the Scriptures and search and try and blessed is he that reads and understands G. F. THE END