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A brief charactor of the antient Christian Quakers Written by W.M. A witness for the truth, as it was in the begining.
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Mather, W. (William), fl. 1695.; Crook, John, 1617-1699.
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1695
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A Brief CHARACTER OF THE ANTIENT CHRISTIAN QUAKERS Written by W. M. A Witness for the Truth as it was in the Begining LONDON Printed for S. Clarke in George-Yard in Lombard-Street 1695. A Brief CHARACTOR Of the Antient CHRISTIAN-QVAKERS FIrst In the North of England there was a few Religious People that could find no Satisfaction to their Immortal Souls amongst the several Will-Worshipers having been amongst them Met often together to wait upon God with frequent Prayers unto him That they might attain to that Holyness of Life the Saints Injoyed Recorded in the Holy Scriptures Crying unto God as did Holy David Psalm 42.1 As the Hart panteth after the Water-Brooks so panteth my Soul after thee O God And it pleased God to satisfie their Thirsting and Breathing Souls by giving them more Grace which was Purchased for us all by the Sufferings and Death of his dear Son our Saviour Christ Jesus which descovered the way of Truth unto them whereby they were enabled to walk in the delightful Path of Righteousness to pleas God and so received power through the alone help of this Inward and Spiritual Grace to overcome all the Temptations of the World the Flesh and the Devil Yea the Lord discovered unto them so much of his Divine Power and Love in their Assemblies that their Bodies was made to Tremble as Moses Habakkuk c. at the power of Gods Presence which some Rude People Seeing called them in Scorn Quakers Isa 66.5 Jer. 33.9 2. About the Year 1653. God sent some of them to Declare to People what God had done for their Souls Declaring sometimes in Market-places sometimes in Steeple-Houses and Meettings and many Thousands were Converted to the Truth as it is in Jesus That a worhy Man in the South who was Converted to the Truth through the power of their Ministry Write a little Book which he called The Principles of Truth saith in p. 14.15 c. By this Gift of God in our Hearts we further Believe That Christ Jesus Rose again from the Dead according to the Scriptures and Sits at Gods Right Hand in a Glorious Body and we Believe That our low Estate and humble Bodies shall be made like unto his Glorious Body through the working of his Mighty Power whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself and that this Mortality shall put on Immortality For though we Believe that Christ Jesus hath Lighted every Man with his Light whereby Man may come to know himself Lost and Vndone as before is said yet therefore is not every Man Saved though the Grace that appears to all Men is Sufficient in it self but some have the Grace of God bestowed upon them in vain not liking to retain God in their Knowledge though something within them shews them what is Good but they reject the Councel of God within or against themselves to their own Destruction Luke 7.30 see the Margin and yet it doth not follow that the Grace is Insufficient of it self no more than it follows that Christs Death is Insufficient because he tasted Death for every Man and yet every Man is not Saved Neither doth Regeneration or the Believing in the Light of Christ within make void the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem no more than Believing the Scripture Testimony without concerning Christ's Death make void the Work of Regeneration and Mortification within But as the Apostle saith in another Case so I say in this For as the Man is not without the Woman neither is the Woman without the Man in the Lord Even so is not the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem to be made void and of none effect by any thing within neither doth the Light within make that of none effect without but both in the Lord answer his Will For though there is and may be a Knowledge and Belief of what Christ Did and Suffered without the Gates in his own Body upon the Tree and yet Sin alive in the Heart and the Work of Regeneration not known yet it can't be so where the Light within is believed on and obeyed so as to have its perfect Work in the Heart to Regenerate and make all things New and to be of God this Man can never make void what Christ hath done and suffered without and yet this New-Birth or Christ formed within and dwelling in the Heart by Faith doth not limit or confine Christ to be only within and not without also but both within and without according to the Good Pleasure of the Father to Reveal and make him Known For he Fills all things and the Heaven of Heavens cannot Contain him and yet he is at Gods Right Hand far above all Heavens in a Glorious Body By JOHN CROOK an Antient Labourer in Christs Vineyard yet on this fide the Grave to the Joy of many Souls To which I add the Poets Verses ETernal Love ought to be our Chief ame Life in our Saviors Death we duly clame In his dear Merits all our hopes must be Zone of our Everlasting Life is he A Bright Meridian of Eternity But how came this great Mistery to pass Eternal Wisdom the prime Author was The thing is deep and Mortal Minds are lost Heaven knows alone what this dear Blessing cost Consider then and let us still Adore Omnipotence which our weak Nature bore Compassioning us he lay'd a side Known Glory and dispising shame he Dy'd Sov'raign o're Death with Death he yet Comply'd But to return They for their faithful witnessing to the Truth Suffered many Stonings Finings and Imprisonments from Cruel Men yet God never forsook them so that they Sung Praises unto his Holy Name when in Dungeons 3. Their Message and Labour was to turn Peoples Minds to the Gift or Talent of Light or Grace in their own Souls the way to Life that it might be every ones Chief Teacher and Leader into all Truth Neh. 9.20 John 1.9 Tit. 2.11 1 Cor. 12.7 Rom. 1.19 Which caused the said J. C. to Write What unwearied Pains Truth made many to take to run too and fro to Inform and Fore-warn their Relations and Acquaintance least they should neglect the Day of their Visitation and they knowing the Truth should be Guilty of their Blood because they had not fore-warned them is known to many Witnesses See Truths Progress 4. They waited upon God in Silence in all their Meetings their Minds fixed on Gods Grace and out of Earthly Thoughts And none Spake until Gods Spirit Moved any one to Speak Durst not Pray or Preach mearly from Head Knowledge For sayeth the said J. C. How careful were those that came to Witness the Truth at the begining to keep Low and Humble that they might not be drawn from their Own Measurs least their Own Words should become their Burthen and they be Condemned in themselves for uttering that as in the Name of God which came not from the Spirit of the Living God And saieth R. Barckley in Page 453 in