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A54228	A testimony to the truth of God, as held by the people, called, Quakers being a short vindication of them, from the abuses and misrepresentations often put upon them by envious apostates, and mercenary adversaries.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1699 (1699)	Wing P1380; ESTC R220497	18,332	56

his Worship Whereas nothing can be more absurd since without it no Man can truly call Jesus Lord Besides it is our Duty to wait upon him who hath promised not to compel but fill them with Renewings of Strength that so wait upon him by which they are made capable to Worship him acceptably be it in Prayer Preaching or Praising of God And how warrantable our Practice herein is from Holy Scripture see Psal 25. 5. 37. 7. 27. 14. 130. 5 6. Hosea 12. 6. XIII Of God and Christ's being in Man BEcause we say as doth the Holy Scriptures that God is Light and that Christ is Light and that God is in Christ and that Christ by his Light lighteth every Man that cometh into the World and dwelleth in them and with them that obey him in his Inward and Spiritual Manifestations People have been told by our Adversaries that we believe every Man has whole God and whole Christ in him and consequently so many Gods and Christs as Men Whereas we assert nothing herein but in the Language of the Holy Ghost in the Scriptures of Truth and Mean no more by it than that as God is in Christ so Christ by his Spirit and Light dwelleth in the Hearts of his People to comfort and consolate them as he doth in wicked Men to reprove and condemn them as well as to call enlighten and instruct them that out of that state of Condemnation they may come and by believing in him may Experience their Hearts cured of the Maladies Sin hath brought upon them in order to compleat Salvation from Sin here and from Wrath to come hereafter 2 Cor. 5. 9. 1 Joh. 1. 5. XIV Of Christ's coming both in Flesh and Spirit BEcause the Tendency generally speaking of our Ministry is to press People to the Inward and Spiritual Appearance of Christ by his Spirit and Grace in their Hearts to give them a true Sight and Sence of and Sorrow for Sin to amendment of Life and Practice of Holiness And because we have often opposed that Doctrine of being actually Justified by the Merits of Christ whilst actual Sinners against God by living in the Pollutions of this wicked World We are by our Adversaries render'd such as either deny or undervalue the coming of Christ without us and the Force and Efficacy of his Death and Sufferings as a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World Whereas we do and hope we ever shall as we always did confess to the Glory of God the Father and the Honour of his dear and beloved Son that he to wit Jesus Christ took our Nature upon him was like us in all things Sin excepted That he was born of the Virgin Mary went about amongst Men doing Good and working many Miracles That he was betrayed by Judas into the Hands of the chief Priests c. That he suffered Death under Pontius Pilate the Roman Governour being Crucified between two Thieves and was buried in the Sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea Rose again the third day from the Dead and ascended into Heaven and sits at God's Right Hand in the Power and Majesty of his Father and that by him God the Father will one day judge the whole World both of Quick and Dead according to their Works But because we so believe must we not believe that Christ said He that dwelleth with you shall be in you John 14. I in them and they in me c. Chap. 17. When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me Gal. 1. The Mystery hid from Ages is Christ in the Gentiles the hope of Glory Col. 1. Unless Christ be in you you are Reprobates 2 Cor. 13. Or must we be industriously represented Deniers of Christ's Coming in the Flesh and the Holy Ends of it in all the Parts and Branches of his Doing and Suffering because we believe and press the Necessity of Receiving and Obeying his Inward and Spiritual Appearance and Manifestation of himself through his Light Grace and Spirit in the Hearts and Consciences of Men and Women to Reprove Convict Convert and Change them This we esteem hard and unrighteous Measure nor would our warm and sharp Adversaries be so dealt with by others But to do as they would be done to is too often no part of their Practice Yet we are very ready to declare to the whole World that we cannot think Men and Women can be saved by their belief of the One without the Sense and Experience of the Other and that is what we oppose and not his Blessed Manifestation in the Flesh We say that he then overcame our Common Enemy foiled him in the open Field and in our Nature triumphed over him that had overcome and triumphed over it in our Fore-Father Adam and his Posterity And that as truly as Christ overcame him in our Nature in his own Person so by his Divine Grace being received and obeyed by us he overcomes Satan in us That is he detects the Enemy by his Light in the Conscience and enables the Creature to resist him and all his Fiery Darts and finally so to Fight the Good Fight of Faith as to overcome him and lay hold on Eternal Life And this is the Dispensation of Grace which we declare has appeared to all more or less teaching those that will receive it to deny ungodliness and worldly lust and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World looking for which none else can justly do the blessed Hope and glorious Appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ c. Tit. 2. 11 12 13. And as from the Teachings Experience and Motion of this Grace we minister to others so the very drift of our Ministry is to turn Peoples Minds to this Grace in themselves that they may all come to do even the good and acceptable Will of God and work out their Salvation with fear and trembling and make their High and Heavenly Calling and Election sure which none else can do whatever be their Profession Church and Character For such as Men sow they must reap and his Servants we are whom we obey Regeneration we must know or we cannot be Children of God and Heirs of Eternal Glory And to be Born again an other Spirit and Principle must prevail to leaven season and govern us than either the Spirit of the World or our own depraved Spirits and this can be no other Spirit than that which dwelt in Christ for unless that dwell in us we can be none of his Rom. 8. 9. And this Spirit begins in Conviction and ends in Conversion and Perseverance And the one follows the other Conversion being the Consequence of Conviction obey'd and Perseverance a natural Fruit of Conversion and of being Born of God For such Sin not because the Seed of God abides in them 1 John 3. 7 8 9. but through Faithfulness continue to the end and obtain the Promise even Everlasting Life But we do acknowledge that Christ through his Holy Doing and

Deniers of Christ's Satisfaction at large Whereas we Sincerely Believe our Lord Jesus Christ was that most acceptable Sacrifice to God for the Sin of Mankind that whatsoever sin is forgiven is not forgiven only because of Repentance but for his sake that dyed and offered him self through the Eternal Spirit an Offering once for all The Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification truly understood are placed in so strict an Union that the one is a necessary Consequence of the other and what we say of them is what agrees with the suffrage of Scripture and for the most part in the terms of it always believing that in Points where there arises any difficulty be it from the Obscurity of Expression Mistranslation or the Dust raised by the Heats of Partial Writers or Nice Criticks it is ever best to keep close to the Text and maintain Charity in the rest We shall therefore first speak Negatively what we do not own which perhaps hath given occasion to those who have been more hasty than wise to judge us defective in our Belief of the Efficacy of the Death and Sufferings of Christ to Justification As First We cannot believe that Christ is the Cause but the Effect of God's Love according to the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple John Chap. 3. God hath so loved the World that he hath given his only Begotten Son into the World that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have Everlasting Life Secondly We cannot say God could not have taken another way to have saved Sinners than by the Death and Sufferings of his Son to satisfie his Justice or that Christ's Death and Sufferings were a strict and rigid Satisfaction for that Eternal Death and Misery due to Man for Sin and Transgression For such a Notion were to make God's Mercy little concerned in Man's Salvation and indeed we are at too great a distance from his Infinite Wisdom and Power to judge of the Liberty or Necessity of his Actings Thirdly We cannot say Jesus Christ was the greatest Sinner in the World because he bore our Sins on the Cross or because he was made Sin for us who never knew any Sin an Expression of great Levity and Unsoundness yet often said by great Preachers and Professors of Religion Fourthly We cannot Believe that Christ's Death and Sufferings so satisfies God or justifies Men as that they are thereby accepted of God They are indeed thereby put into a State capable of being accepted of God and through the Obedience of Faith and Sanctification of the Spirit are in a State of Acceptance For we can never think a Man justified before God while Self-condemned or that any Man can be in Christ who is not a New Creature or that God looks upon Men otherwise than they are We think it a State of Presumption and not of Salvation to call Jesus Lord and not by the Work of the Holy Ghost Master and he not Master of our Affections Saviour and not saved by him from Sin Redeemer and yet not redeemed by him from Passion Pride Covetousness Wantonness Vanity Honours vain Friendships and Glory of this World Which whoever do will deceive themselves for God will not be mocked such as Men sow such must they reap And tho' Christ did Die for us yet we must by the Assistance of his Grace work out our Salvation with Fear and Trembling As he died for Sin so we must die to Sin or we cannot be said to be saved by the Death and Sufferings of Christ or throughly Justified and Accepted with God But now possitively what we own as to Justification comes next We do believe that Jesus Christ was our Holy Sacrifice and Attonement and Propitiation that he bore our Iniquities and that by his Stripes we were healed of the Wounds Adam gave us in his Fall and that God is just in forgiving true Penitents upon the Credit of that Holy Offering Christ made of himself to God for us and that what he did and suffer'd satisfied and pleased God it being for the take of fallen Man that had displeased Him And that by the Offering up of himself once for all through the Eternal Spirit he hath for ever perfected those in all times that are sanctified who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. 1. Mark that In short Justification consists of two parts or hath a two-fold Consideration viz. Justification from the Guilt of Sin and Justification from the Power and Pollution of Sin and in this sense Justification gives Man a full and clear Acceptance before God For want of this latter part it is that so many Souls Religiously inclin'd are often under Doubts Scruples and Dispondencies notwithstanding all that their Teachers tell them of the Extent and Efficacy of the first part of Justification And it is too general an Unhappiness among the Professors of Christianity that they are apt to cloke their own Active and Passive Disobedience with the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ The first part of Justification we do reverently and humbly Acknowledge is only for the sake of the Death and Sufferings of Christ nothing we can do though by the Operation of the Holy Spirit being able to cancel Old Debts or wipe out Old Scores It is the Power and Efficacy of that Propitiatory Offering upon Faith and Repentance that Justifies us from the Sins that are past and it is the Power of Christ's Spirit in our Hearts that purifies and makes us acceptable before God For till the Heart of Man is turned from Sin God will never accept of it He Reproves Rebukes and Condems those that entertain Sin there and therefore such cannot be said to be in a Justified State Condemnation and Justification being Contraries So that they that hold themselves in a Justified State by the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ while they are not Actively and Passively Obedient to the Spirit of Christ Jesus are under a strong and dangerous Delusion and for crying out against this Sin-pleasing Imagination not to say Doctrine we are Staged and Reproached as Deniers and Despisers of the Death and Sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ But be it known to such they add to Christ's Sufferings and crucifie to themselves afresh the Son of God and trample the Blood of the Covenant under their Feet that walk unholily under a Profession of Justification for God will not acquit the Guilty nor justifie the Disobedient and Unfaithful Such deceive themselves and at the Great and Final Judgment their Sentence will not be Come ye Blessed because it cannot be said to them Well done Good and Faithful for they cannot be so esteemed that live and die in a Reproveable and Condemnable State but Go ye Cursed c. Wherefore Oh Reader Rest not thy self wholly satisfied with what Christ has done for thee in his Blessed Person without thee but press to know his Power and Kingdom within thee that the strong Man that has too long kept thy House

A TESTIMONY TO THE Truth of God As held by the People called QUAKERS BEING A short Vindication of them from the Abuses and Misrepresentations often put upon them by Envious Apostates and Mercenary Adversaries Psal 56 5. Every day they wrest my words All their Thoughts are against me for Evil. The Second Impression London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street 1699. READER OCcasion having been given us which we never sought we continue to improve it to the further Explanation and Defence of our so much abused Profession that if possible People may see at least the more Sober and Candid that we are not at that distance from Truth nor so Heterodox in our Principles as we have been by too many either rashly or interestedly Represented But that indeed we hold the Great Truths of Christianity according to the Holy Scriptures and that the Realities of Religion are the Mark we press after and to disabuse and awaken People from their false Hopes and carnal Securities under which they are too apt to Indulge themselves to their Irreparable Loss That by our setting Christian Doctrine in a true Light and reviving and pressing the Necessity of a better Practice They may see the Obligation they are under to redeem their precious Time they have lost by a more careful Employment of that which remains to a better purpose In this short Vindication of our mistaken Principles the Ingenuous Reader may easily discern how Ill we have been treated and what Hardships we have laboured under through the Prejudice of some and the Unreasonable Credulity of others and that we are a People in Earnest for Heaven and in that Way our Blessed Lord hath trod for Us to Glory A TESTIMONY TO THE Truth of God As held by the People called QUAKERS c. BY the Observation we are led to make from Fra. Bugg's late Book upon the Bishop of Norwich's giving him his Recommendatory Letter to the Clergy c. in his Diocess to Relieve by a Collection the Necessities of that Beggerly Apostate a Copy of which Letter the said F. B. hath Published in his said Book And also by the Observation we have made on the malicious Attempts of the Snake in the Grass in his First Second and Third Editions which is a disingenuous and unjust Collection from F. Bugg and some other Deserters of things for the most part long since answered as also lately by the Book Entituled An Antidote c. Though because his Second and Third Edition have some Additions to his first and that being new vamped for a better Market he may expect a Melius inquirendum after a while Yet should we follow the Example of this Rattle-Snake against the Church of which he pretends to be a Member but at present a suspended one we might in Retaliation not only exceed the Cobler of Gloucester but the Scotch Eloquence and that Master-Piece the Ground of the Contempt of the Clergy And Lastly By the Observation we have made on the Relation subscribed by some of the Norfolk-Clergy dated Octob. the 12th 1698. We cannot forbear thinking that as their Confederacy is deep so it aims at nothing less than the Ruine of us and our Posterity by rendring us Blasphemers and Enemies to the Government and to be treated as such The Norfolk-Relation from the Clergy aforesaid charges the said People with Blasphemy First Against God Secondly Against Jesus Christ Thirdly Against the Holy Scriptures with Contempt of Civil Magistracy and the Ordinances which Jesus Christ Instituted viz Baptism by Water and the Lord's Supper by Bread and Wine And Lastly That the Light within as taught by us leaves us without any certain Rule and exposes us to the Blasphemies aforesaid with many others Now because this Charge refers to Doctrine rather than Fact or particular Persons we think our selves concerned to say something in Vindication of our Profession and to wipe off the Dirt thereby intended to be cast upon us in giving our Reader a plain Account of our Principles from the Perversions of our Enemies But to manifest how Uncharitably and Unjustly the said Clergy-Men have Reflected upon the People called Quakers with respect to the said Charge we are contented the Reader goes no further than their own Printed Relation dated Nov. 12. 1698. not doubting but by that very Relation and the Letters therewith Printed he will meet with intire Satisfaction with respect to the Reasonableness and Justness of the Quakers Proceedings in that Affair and how ready they were to come to the Test and to bring the pretended Charge upon the Stage and to Purge themselves from the Guilt of the same Provided they might be accommodated with what the Common Law allows Malefactors viz. a Copy of their Indictment but this could not be obtained And tho' the said Clergy have thought fit to Print the Charge in General without any Proof we think our selves obliged to Vindicate our Profession by freely declaring as now we do without any Mental Reservation our sincere Belief of the very things they most unjustly Charge us with denying I. Concerning GOD. BEcause we declare that God is a God nigh at Hand and that he is according to his Promise become the Teacher of his People by his Spirit in these latter Days and that True Believers are the Temples for him to Walk and Dwell in as the Apostle Teacheth and Experiencing something of the Accomplishment of this Great and Glorious Truth amongst us and having therefore pressed People earnestly to the Knowledge and Injoyment thereof as the Blessing and Glory of the latter Days We have been Ignorantly or Maliciously Represented and Treated as Hereticks and Blasphemers as if we owned no God in Heaven above the Stars and confined the Holy One of Israel to our Beings Whereas we believe him to be the Eternal Incomprehensible Almighty All wise and Omnipresent God Creator and Upholder of all things and that he fills Heaven and Earth and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him yet he saith by the Prophet Isaiah To that Man will I have regard that is poor and of a contrite spirit and which trembles at my word So that for professing that which is the very Marrow of the Christian Religion viz. Emanuel God with us we are represented Blasphemers against that God with whom we leave our innocent and suffering Cause Isaiah 7. 14. 40. 28. 48. 17. 66. 1 2. 2 Cor. 6. 16. Rev. 21. 3. II. Concerning Jesus Christ BEcause we believe that the Word which was made Flesh and dwelt amongst Men and was and is the only Begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth his beloved Son in whom he is well pleased and whom we ought to hear in all things who tasted Death for every Man and Died for Sin that we might Die to Sin is the Great Light of the World and full of Grace and Truth and that he lighteth every Man that cometh into the World and giveth them Grace for