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A96399	The real Quaker a real Protestant, and the spirit of popery directly struck at in answer to a most malicious and scandalous book, entituled, The papists younger brother, by a disguised author under the titles Misoplanes and Philalethes, but on the contrary proved Philoplanes, Misalethes / by a servant of Christ, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1679 (1679)	Wing W1952; ESTC R42838	97,690	135

James Parnel's Books that in reading them over he found Cramben his Coctam he might have forborn this for shame in this case For as for Reiterations Repetitions and Tautologies of worse stuff than Colewort twice boild I never read any that surpassed him especially any of his Coat that stuff'd up a Book so big as his with so much Scoffing Jeering trifling and impious Reiterations with so little shew of Reason as he hath done which shews after what an Ungodly rate he has spent his Time and Study and how therein he has been attended and prompted with a Diabolical Spirit to inveigh like one mad with Envy against the Light of Christ within Perfection partaking of the Divine Nature and Unity of the true Church § XXXII Pr. pag. 122. Take heed to the Light of God within you this is only a Whim of the Qrs. Brain which hath no Foundation in any Apostolical Writings In Scripture we find mention made often of Christ the Light and sometimes of Christ in you But take heed to the Light of God within you this is only the Quakers false Doctrine Answ Look here he can scarce write a Paragraph without scoffing at the Qrs. Thus he inveighs against taking heed to the Light of God within he sayes It has no Foundation in any Apostolical Writings But see the man's Contradiction as well as his Ignorance herein He confesses that in Scripture we find often mention made of Christ the Light and sometimes of Christ in you and has this no Foundation in the Apostles Writings If Christ be the Light and Christ within must not he be taken heed unto and followed as he is manifest within even in them that believe in his Light as he has taught but if God who commanded Light to shine out of Darkness hath shined in our Hearts to give us the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 Must we not then take heed unto his Inshining Light in our Hearts when he shines in our Hearts to give us such Knowledge I had not repeated so much of this Man 's reiterated trifling and scornful Contradiction and Opposition to Truth but that his Folly may the more be seen and remain on record against him ●r Ibid. To be one in the Eternal Vnity smells strong of Parnel 's Partakers of Christ's Divine Nature that God is with us manifested in the Flesh all which is Ab●●inable ●lasphemy Answ As for Eternal Unity among Christ's Followers did not he pray for it John 17.21 That they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us And this partaking of Christ's Divine Nature offends the Priest still but his Folly therein is sufficiently detected before which now he greatly adds to in accounting it Abominable Blasphemy to say God is with us c. How then is Christ called Immanuel God with us And hath not God promised to dwell and walk in his People And were not the true Believers given up to suffer with Christ and to be delivered up to Death for his sake that the Life also of Jesus might be manifest in their mortal Flesh And doth not the Spirit of Christ dwell in true Believers and quicken their mortal Body to yield their Members as Instruments of Righteousness to God that Christ may dwell in their Hearts by Faith that they might know the Love of Christ and be filled with all the Fulness of God For which End Paul bow'd his Knees unto the Fathers of our Lord Jesus Christ see Ephes 3.14 to the end Pr. p. 124. Christ Jesus his Body is one which is his Church behold except the Church which is Christ's Mystical Body our Saviour hath no other Body Answ The Priest takes occasion for these words from a Passage he cites out of a Book called Truth 's Defence which as he cites it is That the Body of Christ is but one and he is the Head of the Body which is the Church Whence he infers our Saviour hath no other Body which is but his own Narrow Construction For it follows not from saying the Body of Christ or his Church is but one that Christ hath no Spiritual or Glorious Body peculiar to and of himself whereof the Church contains Members For what 's more plain than where it s said For as the Body is one and hath many Members and all the Members of that one Body being many are one Body so also is Christ 1 Cor. 12.20 Then that all those many Members and that one Body of Christ whereof they are Members make upone Body collectively and joyntly in Christ and that the Church and Members of Christ as joyn'd to him and his Body to make up one Body in universal Union and Fulness of Christ Jesus so as all are joyned to him and Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bone this makes us one Body where there is likewise one Christ who takes in and comprehends with him both his own Glorious Body like unto which the Body of the Saints Lowness was to be fashioned Phil. 3.21 and all the Members thereof who are joyned to him in that Mysterious Union that is between Christ and his Church as he is the true Vine and they the Branches And granting still that Christ has a Glorious Body most near proper to himself above and more excellent than all our Earthly Bodies like unto which he will change our Low and Humble Body 't is not improper to say The Body is one and hath many Members and all the Members of that one Body being many are one Body Now are there many Members yet but one Body 1 Corinth 12.20 And there is one Body and one Spirit Ephes 4.4 Therefore a plurality of Bodies and Members may be truly called one Body in that Mystical or hidden Union that is between Christ and his Church for any Collective Body consisting of many People may be called one Body though this be far inferiour to the heavenly Union between Christ his Body and Church Lastly How can true Believers who are many be said to be One Bread from their eating of that one Bread which is Christ even of his Flesh which he gave for the Life of the World or be said to be Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bone from their Union with him or his Church be said not only to be his Body but the Fulness of him that filleth all in all if in this Bread his Flesh Body and Fulness Christ's own Body be not so included and his Church therewith so nearly united as All comprehensively to make up One universal Body in the Fulness of Christ for how should his particular Body be excluded out of his Fulness and yet there are those who discern not the Lord's Body who eat and drink unworthily and so eat and drink their own Damnation But this Priest still proceeds in his Envious Attempts telling

us That to speak the Qrs. Mind more fully two of his Neighbour Qrs. told him That Christ's Body did vanish at his Ascension and that now he hath no other Flesh or Body but the Flesh or Body of his People p. 124. To which I answer That the first is a palpable Untruth I deny it to be the Qrs mind that Christ's Body did vanish so as to be annihilated at his Ascension 'T was chang'd and more glorified but not vanisht To the last part accusing two of his Neighbour Qrs. with telling him so this is very questionable and suspicious the man's Credit is at such a low ebb with me because of so many Lyes cast upon the Qrs. that I do greatly suspect this Story against two of his Neighbours And I am also satisfied that none in their right Understanding or Sense would give him any such mistaken Answer or Account concerning the Body of Christ that it so vanished as to become annihilated Though some Adversaries have been apt to be too Curious in their Enquiries about that Point obtruding Unlearned Questions more than are necessary to Salvation We are satisfied that the same Christ that humbled himself to the Death of the Cross is highly Exalted and hath a Name and Authority given unto him unto which every Knee must bow and every Tongue confess and the Mouthes of Gain-sayers shall be stopt in the Day of his Power which is dawned in our Age Glory to God and to the Lamb forever AN APPENDIX IN Vindication of the Soundness of the QVAKERS Faith from the said Adversary's Fictitious Creed Unsound Faith and most Knavish Forgeries and Sordid Abuses as stated by him in the Quakers Name SInce that instead of an Index our Adversary the Priest hath added an Appendix of Ninety Eight Articles in number which he would have the Reader to look upon as the Quakers Vnsound Faith and which he is bold to set down as the Quakers Belief and that with reference to what he hath in the foregoing Discourse taken out of their own Books and all which he promises to do either in their own words or according to the true Meaning of them By the Letter Q. is meant Quakers page 144 145. By all which the Reader may observe that all these Ninety Eight Articles which he has framed in the Qrs. Name he would have the Reader look upon them as the Qrs. unsound Faith Whence it follows that none of them are according to his Faith let this be remarked by the way And therefore I shall give the Reader a few Instances out of the aforesaid Articles 1st To shew that many of them are neither set down in the Quakers own words nor in the true Meaning of them and therefore that the Priest is a manifest Forger therein 2dly That there are many Truths set down in many of the Articles which are not according to this Priests Faith because he has given them all the Title of the Qrs. Vnsound Faith Which things premised to be observed I proceed Pr. Art 1. We Q. do believe as W. P. doth write that Jesus Christ is not a distinct Person without us and that there is not one place of Scripture to prove him to be so nor do we believe Christ to be God-Man for it is no Scripture-phrase Answ This is a Forgery and Perversion as from a Denyal of the Terms to a Denyal of the Thing Jesus Christ is owned to be a Distinct Intelligent Being without us but not as wholly excluded and limited only as a Circumscribed Person without us he is within us also spiritually As also to say We do not believe Christ to be God-man is a down right Slander for we have fully declared him to be both God and Man see Section 2. Pr. Art 2. We Qrs. do believe that the Scripture is not a Rule directing our Vnderstandings or Lives Answ False again we have granted the Holy Scripture to be a Rule but not the Only the Primary or Chiefest Rule The Holy Spirit and Divine Light hath the Preeminency and Preference as a higher and more universal Rule even where the Writing comes not § 2 3. Pr. Art 5. We Q. do believe that the Justification of a Sinner is not by Christ's Righteousness imputed that Justification by Christ's imputed Righteousness is a Dangerous Sin-pleasing Notion Answ False again Christ's Righteousness as imputed or reckoned by himself to true Believers we believe and never opposed it but the Imputation or Reckoning of it to Persons wholly unsanctified by Sin-pleasing Teachers we do oppose § 5 6 ● Pr. Art 6. We Q. do believe that Christ God-Man did never purchase the Redemption of any Sinners by the Price of his own Blood Answ A gross Perversion We do believe that Christ as Mediator hath obtained Eternal Redemption for us and that by his own Blood that we might be sanctified and redeemed from all Iniquity for which End he gave himself for us But not that he as God-Man did strictly purchase or buy Redemption of God the Father in a way of rigid or strict Payment in the Offenders stead to acquit and clear the Wicked or Guilty in whom no Good is wrought that they may live and dye in Sin and yet be esteemed the Redeemed and Justified of the Lord. This is the plain Case and this we cannot believe But that Christ gave himself a Ransom for all to redeem and purchase lost Man to God out of the Fall and out of Transgression § 9 10. see also § 5 6 7. Pr. Art 7. We Q. do believe that there is no Salvation to be hoped for after this Life is ended by any faithful Christians and that there is no Resurrection of the Body from the Grave unto Life Everlasting Answ Manifest Falshoods We believe both Everlasting Salvation Resurrection and Everlasting Life from the Dead according to holy Scripture but that the Appearance of Christ unto Salvation is not to be put off nor Salvation from Sin deferred till after Death And this also answers his Forgery reiterated and enlarged in his eighth Article But only his saying That there is no Coming of Christ as Judge at the Last Day is also a forged Falshood See § 11. Pr. Art 9. We Q. do believe as the Papists do that true Justification is only by Inherent Righteousness Answ Here 's a Perversion again for we do not place a second or compleat Justification Salvation or Heaven upon the Merit or Deserving of our own Works of Charity c. as the Papists do rendring God a Debtor to them for those Works after the first Grace received Herein we manifestly differ from them And we do not place Justification wholly upon the Inherent Righteousness of Christ but also upon his Merit and Dignity in procuring or obtaining Eternal Redemption for us by his Blood Suffering and Sacrifice Yet that absolute Justification is not compleated without the Inherent or Inward Righteousness of Christ through Faith and Sanctification we must confess §

And 2 Cor. 3.6 Who also made us able Ministers of the New Testament not of the Letter but of the Spirit And whether the words Carnal Commandment and Carnal Ordinances related to no part of Scripture Heb. 7.16 9 10. And whether no part of the Scripture or Writing of Moses or any else was intended in this term Letter But consider all Scripture as it signifies Writing ought there not to be a distinction made not only between the Writing and the matter written but much more between the Writing and the Spirit Life or Substance declared of in the Writing Concerning Baptism he defends his practice very poorly whilst he intends Baptizing or rather Sprinkling young Children in his telling us That the Church of England is grosly mistaken this Quakers Doctrine hath Quaked the Doctrine of the Church of England into a meer delusion p. 78. And why so but because the Quaker saith The Baptism we own is the Baptism of Christ there is but one Lord one Faith one Baptism from Matth. 3.11 Ephes 4.5 6. Collect. J. P. p. 67. Now this Priest proves not that Baptizing with Water muchless that Sprinkling Infants is this one Baptism we have only his Say so or his Belief for it or that Sprinkling Infants is a sign of Regeneration whereby as an Instrument the baptized are grafted into the Church p. 78. He produces us no Scripture-proof for it Pr. pag. 78. This Quaker hath very mean Thoughts of the Lords Supper he counts it but the Worlds Communion As for the Bread broken which is the Body of Christ this Quaker calls it the Bread which the World breaks he speaks abominably of this Bread blessed and broken calling it Carnal Natural that it passeth out of the Body c. Bread and Wine but the Husk and Shadow without p. 79. Answ It appears by this that he deems their Bread and Wine Spiritual Supernatural the Substance the Bread the Body of Christ and then by this the Wine must be the Blood of Christ when blest or consecrated by the Priest Which is rank Popery all one with the Doctrine of Transubstantiation as the Rhemists in their Annot. on Matth. 26. affirm a Consecrating the several Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ the Bread into his Body a part as betrayed broken and given for us the Wine into his Blood a part as shed out of his Body for remission of Sins and Dedication of the New Testament Which is their professed Transubstantiation or changing the Substance of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ according as our Adversary tells us That the Bread broken is the Body of Christ He has left the Doctrine of the Antient Protestants and Protestant-Martyrs who did not own any such Change of the Elements of Bread and Wine but only that as a Sign or Figure of the Body of Christ crucified they were received as a grateful Comemoration of Christ's Death and Sacrifice for mankind But this Adversary is offended that the Bread and Wine should be counted Natural nothing it seems will serve him short of their being the Body and Blood of Christ according as the Rhemists also on Luke 22.19 say Although sense tell thee 't is Bread yet it is the Body let Faith confirm thee judge not by Sense after the words of our Lord let no doubt rise in thy mind of the Verity of Flesh and Blood there is no place to doubt c. See how exactly our Adversary agrees with these Papists in saying The Bread broken is the Body of Christ as before By which he hath now more fully manifested his Popish Spirit especially if he means as he spoke as both repugnant to the Faith of all true Protestants who either look upon these outward Elements to remain the same in themselves in Substance both at and after the words of Consecration and no more than Signs Shadows or outward Mementos at most or look upon them as a Figure or Shadow of the Spiritual receiving of Christ's Body and Blood in the Mystery to eat his Flesh and drink his Blood by Faith as he is the living Bread that comes down from Heaven who gave his Flesh for the Life of the World For there is an Inward and Spiritual Supper of the Lord as well as there was an outward which they partake of who hear the Voice of the Son of God and open the Door of their Heart unto him that he may come in and Sup with them and they with him according to his Testimony in Rev. 3.20 Yet we acknowledge the Sign and Figure in its place and day but the Mystery or thing signified is greater and more Excellent Pr. The Letter or the Scripture is Dust the Serpents Meat which they food upon Answ This he falsly infers and casts upon J. Parn. whenas there is no such passage in J. P's words but that Those who pretend to study Divinity and go among Ignorant People and sell that which they have studied and got into the Brain and those who receive it get it into the Brain and so they live upon Dust which is the Serpents Meat Collect. J. P. p. 78 79. Hence its evident that he did not term the Scripture Dust but the Hireling Priests studied Brain-Notions or Knowledge Whereas the Priest appears in a great Rage and in Cruel Mockery against J. Fernel for his plain dealing with the Magistrates Heads and Priests of England as where J. P. saith For the Testimony of this true Ministry some of us are Imprisoned some Stoned some Stocked Whipped and shamefully intreated as Vagabonds Deluders Wanderers Raisers of Sedition c. and esteemed not worthy to live in the Nation both by Priest and Rulers who are out of the Commands of God and are Vagabonds and Fugitives from God who go in the Way of Cain and Envy and murder the Innocent Collect. J. P. pag. 80. As also where he saith We own Magistracy in its place for whilst there is Transgression there must be a Law and while the Devil hath Power over Man there will be Transgression The Law was given forth to curb Evil-doers c. And true Government according to the Law of God is Serviceable in its place and all Magistrates who fear God and hate Covetousness and are guided by the Light of God in the Conscience and execute the Law in its place without partiality and respect of Persons such are serviceable in their place and this we own and honour and are subject for Conscience-sake J. P. Collect. p. 81 82. These Passages the Priest has left out in his Citation except the first Line and then goes on citing viz. They neither know how to rule or govern who are guided by their own Wills such rule with partiality and respect of Persons and give forth Laws in their own Wills Persecute the Righteous encourage the Heathen c. Upon these and such passages before cited the Priest shamefully inveighs against and belies the Quakers

the sake of this Quaking Blasphemy the Qrs. may well be ashamed of their Light within Ibid. Which Basphemy he charges upon those who affirm a being made Partakers of Christ's Divine Nature Observation by which they are made Christians as in p. 115 116. And so he has in effect charged the Apostle Peter with Blasphemy herein see 2 Pet. 1.4 28. That in these Qrs. account the Ministers of the Gospel are no more but Ministers of the Letter and Persecuters of the Spirit p. 123. This is also False 29. That it is the Qrs. Mind that Christ's Body did vanish at his Ascension p. 124. A Gross Falshood 30. That the Quaking account of the Resurrection of the Saints is that no particular Saint shall rise with particular Bodies from Death to Life again Ibid. A Manifest Falshood 31. That a Qr. calls the Lords Table the Table of Devils an Idol and the Fellowship thereat very Wicked p. 126. Falshoods also 32. That all Qrs. are become so many Infallible Popes in their own account p. 127. A Scornful Lye 33. That Qrs. give forth Papers and Books full of old Errors Abominable Blasphemy c. And that all these are pretended to be from the Immediate Eternal Spirit Ibid. Abusive Lyes 34. That in this Qrs. Account both the Worship of God and his Ordinances are nothing else but a Mocking of God p. 130. Which is a Gross Lye also for he speaks this not of the Worship or Ordinance of God Note but of your Hypocritical Carnal Worship Traditional Ordinances and Observances p. 129. Note that the Sum or most of these our Adversary's Horrid Lyes before cited with many more are answered in this Treatise § XXVII Pr. 35. That a Qrs. Light within him can act the part of Dis-loyalty Rebellion and High Treason against the King's Sacred Majesty p. 140. This is a most Malicious and Cruel Slander Note that the occasion the Priest takes thus to charge the Qrs. Light within Observation is upon a Book of Warnings and Letters sent to Oliver and Richard Cromwel by G. Bishop in the Year 1655. wherein the Priests deadly Malice is not only against the Dead but against the Living This is to put an Odium upon the Qrs. in general and the Light within from some Passages in the Letters of one deceased so long ago writ which 't is not my business to Vindicate all that is contained in them relating to the Powers and Revolutions of Government yet however where any Passage in any of them may seem Disgustful to any in Power this Priest has made but an Uncharitable and Unchristian use thereof to render a whole Body of People Odious Obnoxious to the King present Government wherein he hath more than a little manifestly affronted and violated the King's favour in the Act of Indemnity and shewn a manifest Contempt and Breach thereof though G. B. has now no need of that to be sure But supposing the Passages he takes Occasion at to be as Offensive as with any Colour of Reason he can make or render them making the worst he can of them You may see what Loyalty this Priest shews to the King and present Government in going about to render a People who are free-born English men and peaceable Subjects Obnoxious to the Government Disloyal and Rebellious on such a particular occasion telling us Pag. 138 139. that their tender Consciences had no feeling of Rebellion and Treason and now charging the Qrs Light within with acting the part of Disloyalty Rebellion and high Treason against the King's Sacred Majesty Also in his writing against Edw. Burroughs for reproving the Oppressing Priests and Rulers that were in O. Cromwel's Day and for telling them the Lord would cut them off wherein he truly foretold their Down-fall This also the Priest takes notice of both in his 132 133 134th pages and also makes it an Article of the Qrs. Faith Art 90. to render us Odious to the present Rulers for hee 's not so honest as to tell them it concern'd Cromwel when Protector and his Greatures or Agents not to excuse any Corrupt Rulers now Thus like a most Envious Forger and Perverter the Priest has treated us And supposing he had real occasion against something in G. B's Warnings or Letters aforesaid yet how manifestly hath he Violated the Act of Indemnity and herein shewn himself most Uncharitable and Unchristian and yet he is the man that pretendeth to so much Charity and Christianity He counts it Uncharitable to put black Names as he calls them upon Persons and saith that Christian Charity thinks no Evil and Christianity speaks Evil of no man pag. 113. But he has shewn himself so much void both of this Charity and this Christianity that he both thinks Evil speaks Evil and acts Wickedly against many in his writing thus maliciously not only against particular Persons but against the People called Qrs. and the Light within Also that in pursuance of his Malicious purpose to render them Disloyal and Rebellious he forges Five Articles in the Qrs. Name as their Belief concerning O. Cromwel and the late King and the Powers c. as in his Articles 91 92 93 94 95. which he forges on the said G. B's Letters aforesaid on purpose to render the Qrs. as odious and offensive as possibly he can some-what like Jeroboam's Priest saying Amos hath conspired against thee Amos 7.10 to incense the present Government against them As for instance Art 91. this Priest thus proceeds in his Forgery viz. Pr. We Qrs. do believe that O. Cromwel was one of our Friends c. And Art 92. We Qrs. do believe that O. Cromwel was no Rebel nor Vsurper nor Traytor Observe Thus the cruel Priest our Adversary hath most maliciously and most Knavishly Forged these things in the Quakers Name as Articles of their Faith which were never so made much less agreed upon by the Quakers as Articles of their Faith Besides G. B. plainly testified against Oliver Cromwell even when Protector and so did Edward Burroughs whom this Priest quotes and upbraids for Reproving the Rulers of England for their Covetousness and Corruption and telling them the Lord will cut them off c. whereupon the Priest Exclaims against E. Burroughs crying out brain-sick Quaker blacking the Magistrates of England Lying Vision As if the Priest designed to Incense the present Rulers against the Quakers on this occasion whereas E. B's Book quoted by him was Printed in the Year 1654 as he confesseth which was in Cromwells dayes So that this Priest is offended at those Testimonies that struck at Cromwell and his Corrupt Magistrates How abominably hath this Priest played the Knave and abus'd us in a most sordid manner both in these two cited Articles and in many others which with the assistance of a Diabolical Inspiration he has contriv'd and forged in the Pit of Darkness and Habitation of Cruelty where his Spirit is conversant among the unclean lying