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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96383	Antichrist in flesh unmask'd, the Quakers Christianity vindicated, from the malicious and injurious attempts of [brace] Edward Paye, William Alcott, & Henry Loader, in their late defaming confused book falsly styled, Antichrist in spirit unmask'd, or Quakerism a great delusion, wherein their causeless outrage, folly and falshood are deservedly exposed.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1888; ESTC R186514	11,564	37

Rule being the first Words of the Title you leave out the next following in the same Sentence viz. from God discovered thus you deal very disingenuously by them and others p. 18 c. We know none among us that call the Holy Scriptures a Dead or Carnal Letter nor do we own the Words By the Holy Scriptures we intend the Holy Testimonies and Doctrin of Faith and Practice therein contained which is both Living and Spiritual to them that are alive unto God in Christ Though the outward Letter or Writing in it self alone be Dead the Holy Matter contained in it is Living to them that are Living and Spiritual There is the Letter of the Shadows of the Law and Old Covenant which is abolished by Christ and therefore Dead And all Shadows and Carnal Ordinances comparatively are but dead Letter When Paul preferred the Newness of the Spirit to the Oldness of the Letter and the Ministry of the Spirit above the Letter this was not to slight or contemn the Holy Scriptures No more do we in allowing the Holy Spirit the same Preference which the Scripture allows Moreover to them that are Dead to the Spirit to God and Christ the Scripture is Dead the Words therein are Dead and even the Spiritual Living Ministry is Dead as to them The Savour of Death unto Death in them that Perish but the Savour of Life unto Life in them that are Saved As the meer Characters or Letters as written in Paper and Ink have no Sound nor Voyce till Sound be given them by the Reader so the Words contained in them or Preaching from them have no Life but as the Spirit gives it without which all Preaching is Dead and Fruitless I am persuaded in Conscience That in these things our Friends real Intentions in their Writings is explained and never to contemn the Holy Scriptures and our Adversaries hard and ill Constructions answered And though the Holy Spirit from whence the Holy Scriptures proceeded be of itself All sufficient to guide in all the Ways of God both with and without the Scriptures or where they are not in Writing this is not to contemn or slight them where they are but to use them with the help of the same Spirit rightly to understand and practise them It being the Inspiration of the Almighty that giveth Vnderstanding of the Mind and Will of God and without which the Scriptures cannot be truly understood It was from the same Inspiration or Spirit of God the Holy Scriptures first came and from thence they had their Authority and real Credit And by no other Argument or Demonstration can the Divine Authority of Holy Scriptures be effectually proved or evinced to such as question their Authority but by the same Holy Spirit of God in Man bearing Witness to the Truths therein contained It must be something superior to the Scriptures that must so prove their Divine Authority to them that question the same which we do not at all blessed be God and therefore Challenge these Adversaries E. Paye and W. Alcott to prove that the People called Quakers or any Persons continuing in Society with them do say The Holy Scripture is but a dead carnal Letter or that so call the Doctrins or Testimonies therein contained for we positively deny any such Expressions Note also that these Adversaries have apparently perverted and wronged George Whitehead's Words both in Citation and Construction about the Holy Scriptures and the Person of Christ p. 11 12. and 22. And likewise grosly Abused Wrong'd and Mischarged G. Fox James Parnell G. Keith foully perverting and misconstruing their Words p. 28 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 59. And they have also Abused Vilified Defamed and Wronged W. Smith H. Smith J. Naylor E. Burroughs Isaac Pennington S. Crisp W. P. and others Men of better Fame and Repute than themselves and more Righteous and Innocent than their Defamers Now I would seriously enquire of you William Alcott and Henry Loader 1. Was Edward Paye deputed and approved by your Congregation or any select Assembly of Elders or Ministers of the Baptized People or Churches to Write and Publish his said Book against the People called Quakers Or did he do it on his own Authority and Head with your Approbation only 2. What Ministers or Elders of your Churches besides your selves did peruse and approve of Edward Paye's said Book before Printed and of the Printing thereof to defame us as a People 3. Is the said Edward Paye indeed esteemed among you and your Society a good Christian a Person of a Godly and Sober Conversation of sound Judgment Piety and Parts meet to manage Matters of Controversie about Religion 4. Do you intend to stand by him the said Edward Paye in all the Matters that he has Written in Charge both against certain Persons and against the People called Quakers in his Book Pray give us your direct and plain Answer to these Questions the Reason whereof being 1. That Edward Paye and you also have concerned us as a People in your severe and unjust Accusations in his and your Book 2. That we have an Answer drawn up more Comprehensive and Particular reserved for Publication if we may find a farther Occasion or Necessity for it Therefore 't is but equal and reasonable you should be so Ingenuous as to tell us plainly whether your said Book with our Answer may affect your selves only or your whole Society of People seeing it affects us as a whole Society of People If your Book against us be only your own private Act whose Names are to it and not more generally owned nor stood by among your People we would be so just as not to reflect it on your whole Society or People London the 2d of the 1st Mo. 1691 2. By a Lover of Peace and the Souls of Men George Whitehead TO conclude in general against your false Charges and manifold Abuses and Calumnies contained in your said Book i. e. Antichrist in Spirit to anticipate farther Objections on the Matters herein We sincerely Profess and Declare in the Sight of God and Men that we do faithfully Believe and Profess That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by Divine Inspiration And that the three Divine Witnesses in Heaven above namely the Father Son and Holy Ghost are one True and Eternal God Blessed for evermore whose Omnipresence and Omnipotency we also Believe and Profess And the Divinity and Humanity or Manhood of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Eternal Word of God And that in the fulness of time he took Flesh being Miraculously Conceived by the Holy Ghost and Born of the Virgin Mary and suffered the cruel Death of the Cross as an Universal Offering and Sacrifice both in his Body and Blood shed thereon for the Sins of the whole World and was Buried and Rose again the third Day and Visibly Ascended was seen in his Ascending and passed into Heaven and Glory And that he Ascended far