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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81196	The reading Quakers vindicated from false aspersions; shewing that unneighbourly proceedings is no testimony of Christianity or real Quakers, but destructive to Christian society	Curtis, Thomas, 17th cent.	1696 (1696)	Wing C7691A; ESTC R231362	5,286	8

the Principles of True Religion at sundry times yet so unhappy is the Age in which we live that some that are Contentious will not believe However for the Sakes of others we have this to say in these following Particulars I. We do sincerely believe That there is but one only true and living God who is a Spirit the Creator and Upholder of all Things by the Word of his Eternal Power who is Infinite and Incomprehensible in himself and all Words of Men and Angels cannot define him as he is being in all through all and over all blessed for ever whom all ought to fear and dread II. We sincerely believe in our Lord Jesus Christ both as he was the eternal Son of God from the beginning glorified with the Father before the World began and also as he was the promised Seed spoken of Gen. 3.15 The Seed of the Woman shall bruise the Serpents Head which the Prophet Isaiah pointed at Isa 7.14 Behold a Virgin shall be with Child and bring forth a Son and thou O Virgin shalt call his Name Immanuel which being interpreted is God with us Which in due time was born of the Virgin Mary at Bethlehem in the Land of Judea Mat. 2.15 III. We believe That the Man Christ Jesus according to the Flesh was the Seed of Abraham to which the Promise was made That in him to wit Christ all Nations of the Earth should be blessed Gen. 22.18 Who was the Son of Abraham and the Son of David c. Mat. 1.1 IV. We believe That the Man Christ Jesus had a real Soul that was not the Godhead and a real Body that was not the Godhead but in a most holy and mystical Union of the Divinity and Humanity in One better known and understood through a living Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ than to be expressed in Words Psal 16.10 Acts 2.27 V. We also believe That the same Christ Jesus that was born of the Virgin was the Son of God having no immediate Father but God Luke 1.35 Jo. 1.39 VI. We do believe That Jesus Christ as to his Human Nature was in all things like unto us except Sin yet the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him Bodily He was both God and Man and yet but One Christ the Nature of the Manhood being most gloriously united with his Godhead according to Tim. 2.5 Heb. 2.16 And to this we may add that Saying of the Apostle 1 Pet. 1.8 Whom having not seen ye love in whom though ye see him not yet believing ye rejoice with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory VII We do verily believe That Christ's Body that died on the Cross and was laid in the Sepulchre did rise again the Third Day and that he ascended up into Heaven after his Resurrection according to the Scriptures And that Heaven into which Christ hath ascended in the most glorified Nature of Man is above the Earth a Place of unexpressible Glory with his Father And as he that dwells in Heaven is unlimitable so is the Place of his Habitation above the reach of the carnal Mind to define where it is yet measurably we poor Mortals taste of it here on Earth so that we believe it is not included in us nor excluded from the Regenerate Christ is Lord of Heaven yet as to his Godhead he is measurably within us by his Grace Light and Spirit For he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his VIII We are justified and cleansed from Sin by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ that was outwardly shed and we are sanctified by that precious Blood through the Spirit of God that dwelleth in us 1 Cor. 6.11 IX We believe That it is necessary for all to believe in Christ Jesus as he came outwardly for our Eternal Salvation and also to believe in his spiritual Appearance Grace and Light wherewith he hath Inlightened every Man that cometh into the World and in the Spirit of Truth which is sufficient to lead and guide into all Truth Also living Faith in Christ as he died for our Sins and to reconcile us to God and rose again and is at the Right Hand of God making Intercession for us according to Rom. 8.34 is necessary to be Preached with his inward and spiritual Appearance by every true Minister of Christ as God shall require it by his Spirit John 1.9 Mat. 16.13 X. And we believe it is absolutely needful for every Man and Woman that do profess themselves to be Christians and hope to be saved by our Lord Jesus Christ to be very careful that they are certain and know in themselves that they are true and faithful Witnesses of their own true and unfeigned Repentance towards God and that they so believe as to have saving Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and rightly to know what the Apostle saith viz. Not by Works of Righteousness which we have done but according to his Mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost Tit. 3.5 XI We believe That all that are or shall be saved in any Age of the World have their Sins blotted out and forgiven for Christ's sake and on the account of his most holy and perfect Obedience unto Death and what Light and Grace all Men ever did doth or shall receive to the Worlds end it is given to Men for the Man Christ Jesus his sake and by his Purchase and Merits and continual Mediation and Intercession 1 Tim. 2.5 XII We believe That Christ Jesus shall come again to judge the Quick and the Dead according to Act. 1.11 And that God hath appointed a Day in the which he will judge the World in Righteousness by the Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance to all Men in that he hath raised him from the Dead Act. 17.31 but in what manner he shall come we must submit to the Pleasure of the Almighty XIII We faithfully believe That there will be a Resurrection both of the Just and Unjust and if our Hope were only in this Life we were of all Men most miserable Christ Jesus saith That he is the Resurrection and the Life and he that believes in him tho' he were dead yet shall he live and he that lives and believes shall never die We believe That the deceased Saints are at Rest in the Kingdom for we do not believe a Purgatory or Place of Cleansing hereafter For as Death leaves Judgment finds but we believe That there is a Resurrection of the Body more than what we have already attained which after the Dissolution and putting of that which is Corruptible we shall attain to the full Injoyment of that which we now through Mercy have the Earnest of Knowing that he which raised up our Lord Jesus shall raise us up also by Jesus 2 Cor. 4.14 XIV We believe That Body that dieth shall rise again but wonderfully changed yet so far the same Body as it is possible for a Natural Body to become a Spiritual Body God will give it a Body as it pleaseth him 1 Cor. 15.38 In short the Resurrection is a Mystery too great for the carnal Mind to perceive and the things of God knows no Man but the Spirit of God Let us therefore take the Counsel of an eminent Man viz. To be solicitous to know the Power and inward Operation whereby we may be made Sons of God and attain to the Resurrection of the Dead as being Children of God and of the Resurrection If Men walk in the true Light and so truly serve and please God here on Earth they shall not need to doubt or dispute about their future Being in Heaven their Business is to get thither and God will well accommodate them there Men ought not to be too curious and scrutinous in Matters beyond their Reach as to the manner of their future Beings or how they shall be reserved for eternal Rewards We are Friends to all that hunger and thirst after Righteousness more than after Strife and Contention Thomas Curtis William Soundey Benjamin Coales Reading 19th 9th Month 1696.