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A43071	A sermon preached at St. Olave Southwark, September the 8th, 1700 occasioned by the recantation of Dr. Joh. Spire, lately a Quaker : which said recantation is added at the end / by John Haslewood ...	Haslewood, John, b. 1647.; Spire, John. Oration at the parish-church of St. Olave-Southwark.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1132; ESTC R14553	11,771	28

that will not part with his Iniquity and his Ruin is to lay to his charge an unjust Sentence and as a necessary consequent thereto an undue Execution of it Let us not therefore please our selves with the vain delusions of being God's special Favourites when our hearts are not right towards him for doubtless only those that live to him here shall live with him hereafter Give me leave to make some Application of what hath been delivered to the present occasion and I shall conclude I do not pretend to have given you here a Catalogue of all the false Doctrines of Quakers which are as much too numerous to be recited as they are too foul to be owned What I have concerned my self with have been only such as have come in my way and could not fairly be avoided And those I look upon as sufficient to vindicate their prudence and honesty who have forsaken them and their Errors and have come out from among them that they might not be partakers of their Sins And I hope that those who have thus deliberately chosen to walk together with us in the House of God as Friends will never bring any scandal upon our Profession whilst they own it nor upon themselves by forsaking it will never hearken to any Sophistry that either the Tempter himself or any of his Agents shall make use of for the seducing them back again to those Principles and Practises which they have so wisely and so solemnly renounced For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness then after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment dilivered unto them For a relapse as it is more dangerous so when it may be prevented it is more culpable too then the first beginning of a disease But I am perswaded better things of them that hear me now and things that accompany Salvation though I thus speak And to the end that you and they may be rooted and grounded in the true faith of our Church I shall briefly shew you her temper i. e. draw some of the great lines by which she may be known for I have neither time nor ability to represent her at large and give you a full view of all her excellencies In the first place then She Accounts no Doctrine necessary to Salvation but what is either expresly founded upon or by direct consequence deduced from Scripture which is the Pillar and ground of Truth to which with all the Saints that are and have been upon earth and such as excell in Virtue she pays a most profound Veneration and takes it as David did for a Lanthern to her feet and a light unto her Path. So very different is her treatment of it from that of Quakers who vilify it as a thing of nought and therefore in a style as peculiar to them as their behaviour dishonour it with the contemptuous Names of Dust Death and Serpents Meat (C) G. Fox's News out of the North Pa. 14. And it is plain they are not conversant in it For then would they cease to talk and act so foolishly and so wickedly as they do It being one of the great excellencies of sacred Writ to give wisdom und understanding unto the simple She doth indeed insist upon the two Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper And very good reason she hath for so doing because they are of Divine Institution The former was established by our Saviour when he gave his Disciples a Commission to go and baptize all Nations in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost And when he hath enacted it as a law That all his followers shall be received into his Church by that laver of Regeneration can any one forbid them Water that they should not be baptized And as for that other Sacrament of the Lords Supper certainly it must be a strange Spirit of opposition that possesseth them who gainsay it for can there be any thing more endearing than our Lords appointing that perpetual feast except it be the love that made him do so Is his precious Blood-shedding become so vile in our Eyes that we cannot bear the remembrance of it And yet neither the benefit nor the sacredness of the Institution could restrain a Blasphemous Quaker from this unsufferably vile Reflection upon it Their Communion Bread and Wine is the Table of Devils and Cup of Devils (D) G. Foxe's News out of the North Pa. 14. And yet some of the inferiours of this wicked Crew have payed Divine Honours to this vile Wretch and W. Pen hath since vindicated them (D) W Pen. Judas and the Jews Pa. 44. Surely St. Paul took it for granted that his Corinthians neither would nor should abstain from it when he only directed them how to prepare themselves for it Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that Cup 1. Cor. 11.28 And if this be not a standing Duty never to be let fall certainly the Apostle would not have recommended it to us by such an engaging account as he hath given us at V. 26. of the fore-mentioned Chapter as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew or shew ye the Lords Death till he come till the end of all things when the whole World shall be dissolved and this beautiful Frame of the Universe be first reduced to Ashes and then to nothing Nor is She more intent upon purity of Doctrine than that of Life and therefore requires Holiness in all her Professors so that if any of them are wicked Livers they are not so by her Indulgence but their own depraved inclinations Their ungodliness therefore can be no just imputation to her the strictness of whose rules is a sufficient proof of her love of Virtue and hatred of Vice I own indeed that she requireth a conformity to a few innocent Ceremonies not that she looketh upon them as absolutely necessary but only as fit to be observed for the sake of good Order Decency and Edification which is the sole cause of her injoyning them And to lay them aside would be of more mischievous consequence than some of their oppugners apprehend or perhaps would consent to if they did for they seem to me to have the same kind of usefulness that leaves have which if they be not too numerous are both an Ornament to the Tree and a Fence to the Fruit. And now that I may not be suspected to have any By-end in what I have delivered as if I had not spoken the very Thoughts of my Heart I do with all imaginable Sincerity make this Wish may my Portion in the next World be with those that are true Members of the Church of England who walk worthy of that their Profession may I have the Reward which God in his Mercy for his dear Son's Sake shall bestow upon them whose Faith and Practise are agreeable to her Doctrines and

how then say the Quakers that there is no Resurrection And yet a Ring-leader among them hath no less proudly then ignorantly given out That if the complete happiness of the Soul rests in a re-union to a carnal Body for such it is sown then must we never cry out upon the Turks Alcoran for such a Heaven and the joys of it suit admirably well with such a Resurrection (b) Penn's Reason against Railing Pag. 138. But this is evidently neither more nor less than to set up a piece of foppery of his own that he may have the pleasure and credit of beating it down for certainly never any Christian affirmed that the Body should be raised to a life of sensuality that revelling and junketting were the joys of Heaven But this all that pretend to any love and honour for the Gospel have unanimously agreed upon that at the Resurrection the Body shall be the same as to its substance but very different as to its qualities it is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption it is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body But it is unconceivable by this profound Logician how a thing should be the same and yet notwithstanding that be changed as if there were any the least absurdity in saying that a Man might be the same and not the same in divers respects may he not be changed from weak to strong from proud to humble from sickly to healthful and yet be still the same Person When the Jews saw the Man out of whom the Devils were cast sitting at Jesus Feet cloathed and in his right mind they made no doubt notwithstanding this wonderful change that had been wrought in him but that he was the same Man that was possessed before I have not insisted so long upon this Objection for any strength that I perceived in it but for the sake of the Article itself which is the powerfullest motive to a good life as all People must own that will not take upon them to be wiser than God So that to deny the Resurrection is to cut the very Sinews of Piety and cast a worser shade than that of Death upon the Primitive Martyrs who doubtless would never have endured their sharp afflictions with that unimitable courage and constancy if it had not been for the joy that was set before them nor born those marks of the Lord Jesus in their Bodies if they had not looked upon the scars of their stripes and hurts as so many signs that they belonged to Christ and that in due time he would seize upon them as his own peculiar So the Author to the Hebrews saith expresly that some were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better Resurrection But nothing but the certainty that this Article hath been denied could make one think it possible that it should since it is so directly repugnant to several Passages in Scripture particularly to the second Verse of the Twelfth Chapter of Daniel Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt and so likewise to that Passage in St. John's Gospel Chap. 5. The hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation Now certainly when the Prophet speaks of them that sleep in the dust of the Earth and the Evangelist of them that are in the Graves neither of them thought of the Souls being in that condition and therefore if any thing be waked out of sleep or come forth of the Grave it must be the Body which is so clear that I defye these Sectaries with all their little shifts and base arts of corrupting Scripture to evade the force of these Texts and use them as they have done several others i. e. make them vanish into the Clouds and thick darkness of unintelligible allegories Whosoever he be that professeth any reverence for the Scripture and yet doubts of the Resurrection all that I would desire of him is to peruse the Fifteenth Chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians with seriousness and impartiality and then let him speak his mind It is most certain at Christ's second Advent when he shall judge the World in righteousness and minister true judgment unto all People there will be a re-union of Soul and Body and then fiery indignation shall be poured out upon the Adversaries but Mercy and Loving-kindness upon all those that have kept the commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus Rev. 14.12 St. John tells us that he heard a voice from Heaven saying write from henceforth blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours are unmolested with the impertinence and malice the folly and hypocrisie the rage and perfidiousness of busie false and vexatious Mortals but this is by far the least part of their felicity for after a short sleep in their Graves they shall awake up to Glory and always have such a transcendently delightful object in their view as shall never suffer them to shut their Eyes against it be as the Angels in Heaven not only ready to execute God's Commands but enjoying them too But as for the unbelieving and impenitent Wretch I have no glad tidings to tell him for all his false hopes were built upon the Sands And he who would have been the rock of his Salvation shall then put on only the deafness and hardness of the rock not be moved to the least pity by the most hideous and dismal out-cries but for ever remain inflexible to all complaints and intreaties We are told indeed in Scripture that God justifieth the Ungodly but that Passage must be understood in sensu diviso of such as were Ungodly and not of such as continue in ill-doing for God cannot declare him to be just and righteous who is unjust and unrighteous without impeaching his own Justice and Righteousness It is as certain that grievous Sinners without amendment of life shall never be received into God's favour as it is that by their reformation and renewing of their minds they shall be adopted into the family of his beloved Children Would God punish the imputation of Sin so severely in his innocent and beloved Son in whom he was well pleased and will he pardon the unrepented Iniquities of a stubborn Enemy If he would not spare him that was in his Bosom but pour out his most precious Blood doubtless he will not spare the refractory after such a dreadful and amazing Execution Eternal Life is the gift of God not to be purchased as a due reward of the most holy Conversation But Death is the proper Wages of Sin that which of right belongs to it and without Repentance shall be fully pay'd So that to imagine that God retains an affection to one