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A31664	A brief apology in behalf of the people in derision call'd Quakers written for the information of our sober and well-inclined neighbors in and about the town of Warminster in the county of Wilts. by Wil. Chandler, Alex. Pyott, Jo. Hodges, and some others.	Chandler, William.; Pyott, Alex. (Alexander); Hodges, Jo.	1694 (1694)	Wing C1934A; ESTC R35979	36,422	93

3.2 Act. 17.30 and the time come wherein God commanded the Jews as well as others every where to Repent 't was not sufficient for them to go on in sinning and then offer those respective Sacrifices which the Law enjoyn'd them for the same but now the Wrath of God was near to be reveal'd from Heaven against all Ungodliness and Unrighteousness of Men Ro. 1.18 't was not sufficient to deck and make clean the outside of the Cup and Platter Mat. 23.25 26. but the inside was to be cleansed and then the outside would be clean also The Axe was now laid to the Root Mat. 3.10 and every Tree that brought not forth good Fruit was to be hewn down The Law of Moses took hold on exterior Acts Heb. 9.9 2 Cor. 10.5 and could not make perfect as pertaining to the Conscience but now that Dispensation was about to be established that comes nearer home James 1.15 and takes cognizance of the very Thoughts ●hat Sin be not so much as conceived ●y the Wills joyning thereto Wherefore John was sent to administer the Baptism of Repentance as a lively ●igure of that which was presently after to follow for John's Baptism was not capable to produce this Effect ●pon the Mind And he himself testifies That though he baptized them with Water yet he that came after him that was before him and more honourable than ●e should baptize them with the Holy Ghost and with Fire Mat. 3.11 12. that his Fan was ●n his Hand and that 't was he should throughly purge his floor Which is the great Work that is to be done under his Gospel-dispensation to take away the Sins of the World 1 Joh. 3.8 and destroy the Works of the Devil to purifie Peoples Hearts and make them spiritually minded this is the proper effect of Christ's lasting Baptism not the washing away of the Filth of the Flesh 1 Pet. 3.21 but the answer of a good Conscience towards God to purge our Consciences from dead Works to serve the Living God in Newness of Life The Baptism of Christ is but one Eph. 4.5 and those who by it are Baptized into J●sus Christ Ro. 6.3.6 7 8 11. are Baptized into h●… Death and their Old Man Crucifie● with him that the Body of Sin ma● be destroyed and they no longer serv● Sin because they that are dead wit● Christ are freed from Sin and mad● alive to God to live a Holy Righteous Life These are the blessed Effects of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire 1 Cor. 12.13 Zech. 13.1 and Benefits that redound to those who are in truth washed by Christ in that holy Laver which entitles us to a part in him 't is our chiefest Concern to know this inward spiritual Baptism of Christ tha● our Hearts may be Washed Purified and Sanctified by the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 6.11 and that we really put on Christ and are in him who is the Substance in whom the Types ended John knew and foretold himself that he must decrease Joh. 3.30 but Christ must encrease he doth not say I shall cease presently at once so soon as Christ's Baptism takes place but I must decrease but were Water-Baptism to continue always amongst Christians then would not John decrease Nor will it solve this Allegation That 't was abolish'd as John's and instituted a new as Christ's for then hath Christ his different Gospel-Baptisms which is erronious We grant that some of the Apostles did use Water-Baptism for a time but we believe 't was rather in compliance with the Circumstances of Time than of Necessity and in condescention to the Weakness of Believers in the very Infancy of the Church and even the same Age wherein John Baptized who was not only a true Messenger of God in his time but had gained great Credit among the People and his Memory and Message could not soon be forgotten nor was it easie to draw them from a Practice that but just before was acknowledged to be of Divine Authority For we find the Apostles tolerated the believing Jews to live in certain Rites and Ceremonies of the Mosaical Law notwithstanding the Messiah was come in the Flesh and abrogated them so difficult 't is to disengage People from those things wherein they have been educated and to which their Minds are once glewed and some of them would have had the believing Gentiles come under that Yoak and be Ci●cumcised which Paeul their great Apostle withstood seeing beyond a●… those things knowing that the Kingdom of God was not Meats and Drinks but Righteousness Ro. 14.17 Peace and Joy i● the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 4.20 and not in Word bu● Power not divers Washings and carnal Ordinances which were Shadows and to perish Col. 2.14 16 17 22 10. Heb. 9.9 10. Gal. 5.2 but the Body is o● Christ and those that are in him are in him compleat believing that if they were Circumcised Christ should profit them nothing and yet we see such was his Condescention that he himself notwithstanding Circumcised Timothy and when he was at Jerusalem shaved his Head Act. 21.20 to the 28. c. behaving himself as a Jew for the sakes of those who saw not so far as himself And notwithstanding he was such a laborious and zealous Publisher of the Gospel yet we find he Baptized but very few 1 Cor. 1.14 and thanks God that he Baptized no more surely 't was not then essential to the Gospel but saith plainly 1 Cor. 1.17 Col. 1.13 That he was not sent to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel to turn People from Darkness to Light from the Power of Satan to God who ●ad delivered them from the Power of Darkness and translated them into the Kingdom of his dear Son 't is this that is of absolute Necessity to our Salvation he did not then Baptize because some others did it which yet is as large a Commission as perhaps any pretend to now-a-days Of which we say as he did of Circumcision though we don't grant 't is the Seal of the Covenant and introduced in room of Circumcision as some will have it but without Scripture-authority neither Baptism nor no Baptism availeth any thing short of a New Creature which is the truest Sign of possessing the inward Spiritual Grace and of being in Christ and is beyond all visible Signs whatsoever The Apostles having thus indulged it 't is no wonder that 't was continued and since got footing under the Degeneracy for as Corruption entred the Church and was encreased the Spirit and Life of Christianity was more and more eclipsed and the Minds of its Professors grew darker and then adhered more to external Performances and not only continued that which had been used by their Predecessors or at least something 〈◊〉 its stead but by degrees added mo●… Rites and Ceremonies and at leng●● began to trim and deck that Rel●gion that in it self was plain simple

love him as for the future to live a holy Circumspect Christian Life and obey his Commands thereby continuing in his love Which Holy Life so much Celebrated and strictly kept to in the Primitive Ages of Christianity that whosoever named the Name or took the Name of Christ upon them were to depart from Iniquity we believe ought to be inseparable from a true and faithful Christian as ever accompanying a true living and active Faith and it seems was thought no less necessary by those who composed the promise that should be made in behalf of Infants before they were admitted into that once sacred Catalogue to wit that as they came to Years of discretion Tit. 2.11 12. they should forsake the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World Luk. 1.75 and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh and keep Gods holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all ●he days of their lives Ro. 6.18 19.22 2 Cor. 7.1 Eph. 4.24 1 Thes 3.13 4.7 Heb. 12.10.14 1 Joh. 4.4 This we be●…eve to be the bounden Duty of Man●ind and though our Opposers have ●coft us and branded us with error for holding Perfection because in plead●ng for a Holy Righteous Life as that which is well-pleasing to God and avouching his power to be stronger in Man as Man believes and cleaves to it ●o rescue him from under the power of Satan than is that of the Devil to retain him in Thraldom we have sometimes made use of the Words of Christ and his Apostles as be you perfect Mat. 5.48 Col. 4.12 1 Joh. 3.3 as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect he that hath this Hope in him purifieth himself even as he pure c. Yet have we never pretended to a Moral Perfection beyond what is contained in the above Promise which is sound and true in it self and is that which God requires of us and therefore 't is that we frequently press it's necessity and fervently exhort People to its performance Neither do we expect to be exempt from Temptations while we inhabit these frail Tabernacles Heb. 4.15 which is no Sin provided we consent not Christ himself was likewise tempted yet he Sinn'd not for tho both Good and Evil is presented to our Thoughts yet we appropriate neither but as we entertain and embrace it So that tho the number of Thoughts may sometimes press us and the nature of some grieve us yet they don't otherwise affect us or is Sin thereby conceived i● our Wills don't close with and joyn to them by assenting but if we consent we are culpable in the sight of God tho it proceed not to an open immorality And as we can't prevent the forming of some Thoughts so we can't wholly avoid the presentation of some Evil ones while our common Enemy is busie with his Baites but yet the more we resist and the more the Lusts and Affections of the Flesh which is the part that entertains them is mortified the more their Habit is weakned their Assaults Feebler and we the less infested by them And notwithstanding we have hence been falsely accused that we expect to be saved by our own works as being Meritorious yet we don't acknowledge a Holy Life as the Efficient and procuring Cause of our Salvation which we no less than you totally refer to the free Grace Eph. 2.8 and Mercy of God in Christ without any Merit in Man but we esteem it as a constant Companion thereto James ● 18 to the end and a necessary ●ondition on our part in complyance with God's gracious Offer without which we may not obtain it Heb. 11.6 Ro. 12.1 2. being ●nseparably annext to that Faith which only pleaseth God and is but our reasonable Duty And we believe that although Christ thus offer'd up himself once for all Heb. 2.9 10.12 for the Sins of all Men to the end of the World thereby rendring Repentance and Amendment of Life prevalent with God yet that the Traditional Belief of that alone is not sufficient to entitle us to that common Salvation that comes by him but that 't is of necessity that we truly Repent and be Converted from the evil to the good Act. 3.19 and therefore 't is no less necessary for us now than 't was for Believers in the Apostles Days and 26.18.20 that we be turned from Darkness to Light or in other terms from the dark power of Satan to the power of God who is light that thereby we may every one know the work of Redemption and Salvation wrought in and for our selves For 't is not enough to believe that Christ died if we feel not the blessed Effects of his Death who came to save us from our Sins and bless us by turning us from our Iniquities Mat. 1.21 Act. 3.26 and gave himself for us Tit. 2.14 that he might redeem us from all Iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar People zealous of good works Gen. 2.17 Ro. 5.12 2 Cor. 5.14 Gen. 6.5 Ro. 7.5 For we believe such to be the natural State of Man in the fall that by Nature we are dead as to God at a distance from him prone to Evil and to gratify the Desires of our Sensual Minds sway'd by the corrupt and sinful Lusts of the Flesh Eph. 2.2 and under the power of a strange King rul'd by the Prince of the Power of the Air 2 Tim. 2.26 so that our inward Man being thus Dead from God we cannot exercise our Spiritual Senses towards him nor can this natural Man perceive know or savour the things of God 1 Cor. 2.14 which only are Spiritually discerned Wherefore notwithstanding our Saviour died for us we are yet by Nature in a miserable undone condition in Captivity to our Souls Enemy 1 Cor. 15.45.47 Eph. 2.1.5 Col. 2.13 Ro. 8.11 Eph. 5.13.14 Joh. 1.9 Eph. 2.3 5.6 except we know the Second Adam the Lord from Heaven that quickning Spirit to quicken our Souls and make us alive to God again that being restored to the use of our inward Senses we may by the assistance of his Divine Light wherewith for that end he hath blest all the Sons and Daughters of Men see our selves in ●his sad and lost state under the wrath ●f God and abhor our selves therefore ●nd under this living Sense wherein ●hings will appear with another aspect ●han before cry to God for delive●ance therefrom 2 Cor. 7.10 with such an inward ●earty Sorrow as works a true Re●entance for the same 'T is not our ●eing sprinkled when Infants that will make us true Christians convert us ●rom being Children of Wrath Joh. 1.12.13 Ro. 8.14 to be●ome Children of Grace and Sons of God and Members of Christs Church and invest us in an Interest in him 't is not learning our Catechism and subscribing to certain Articles of Faith though never so Orthodox and being educated in a