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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35136	Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7217; ESTC R204876	16,180	24

Reason because Faith is of an higher Principle and of a deeper nature and ground than Man's Reason is But this because it appears not in Man's sphear but rather out of it and is contrary to the line and reach of his wisdom is accounted by him foolishness and madness Thus is the Wisdom of God and the Children thereof judged and condemned by Man in his day And how can it be otherwise How can the wisdom of Man but judge that as foolishness whose beauty and excellency is hid from its eye But this is because the wisdom of Man is out of its place not subjected to the Wisdom of God but exalted above it therefore as a curse unto it is it suffered to lift up it self in its conceitedness against and so to persecute the pure Wisdom of God and the births thereof that it might fall and be broken and snared and taken and its day deservedly come to an end and be shut up in the shadows and chambers of eternal darkness But what ear of Man can hear this Surely none that is whole in the line of Man's wisdom reason and understanding but that alone which is bruised broken and in some measure dashed to pieces by the inroads of a diviner Life and Nature This in the leadings of that Life which hath broken it and in the shinings of the Light Eternal upon it and into it may be enabled to take up the Cross to the natural part and to die that Death with Christ which preserves from the second Death with the misery thereof Happy is he who knows and hearkens to the Perswasions of God's Spirit who is born of God and taught to wait upon him and worship him in Spirit who receives his Religion from the Light of Faith into the renewed Nature and Mind and not from the Reason of Man into the natural understanding which is easily corrupted and cannot be kept pure but alone by the indwelling of the Principle of Eternal Life in it For though such may suffer very deeply in this world from the men of this world as the Subjects and Servants to the Principle of Life have done in all Ages and Generations yet their Principle will bear them out in which God will appear to strengthen and refresh their spirits and carry them up above all their Sufferings in the Patience Meekness and Faith of the Lamb. And keeping to their Principle they cannot be overcome but must either live or die Conquerors according to the Will and good Pleasure of Him who ordereth and disposeth of all things well and bringeth good out of every evil in despight of all the powers of darkness And he that overcometh whether by life or death in the Lamb's Spirit shall wear the Lamb's Crown and sit down in that perfect Rest in the Kingdom of the Father which will give the hearts of all his Children full Satisfaction In which assured hope Life stirring in our bosoms and quickning our hearts with Love unto our God and Zeal for his Truth we can freely give up all that is near and dear unto us in this world and lay down our heads in inward Peace in the midst of the greatest outward Persecution and Trouble Even so O Lord thy Will be done concerning this Generation of thy People whom thou hast begotten to thy self and brought forth by thy mighty Power to testifie to thy Truth in this present day Dispose of them as it pleaseth Thee and let not their Faith in Thee nor thy Faithfulness to Them fail but let them be a Praise to thy Name throughout all Generations and tendred by Thee as the First-fruits of thine Appearance in the glorious Light of the everlasting Day after this great long thick and dark night of Apostacy from the Life and Spirit of the Apostles which hath so long eclipsed and covered the brightness of thy Beauty from the sight of the Earth Isaac Penington

from the deep and true sence for then God out of the depths of his Love and Mercy could not but heal them and therefore lest the true Light should shine into them to give them the sensible knowledge of themselves and God should heal them the Devil as god of the world by the things of the world endeavours to blind the mind not the brain-knowledge but the hearty feeling sence within in the mind lest the Light within should so shine as God should heal them and all the busslings of Satan with his gifts are but to blind the mind within lest God should heal the soul that complains to him from the true sight and sence of his misery as in himself By this Grace and Gift within we believe that to us though in the world there be Lords many and Gods many there is but ONE GOD the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ witnessed within man only by the Spirit of Truth that manifests both the Father and the Son and yet these three are one and agree in one and he that honours the Father honours the Son that proceeds from him and he that denies the Spirit denies both the Father and the Son and is Anti-Christ but he that believes in the Spirit and is led by it is the Son of God Rom. 8. 14. As many as are the Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God We believe the Scriptures bear witness unto and testifie of Christ but they say the Witness of God is greater than them the Spirit it self bearing witness with our spirits that we are the Sons of God for it is not the Scriptures without the Spirit nor the Spirit contrary to the Scriptures but the Spirit 's discovering the Will of God in the heart or opening of the Scriptures in its own time and way and not in or by the will of man but as it self pleaseth who searcheth all things even the deep things of God and manifests them unto the soul which giveth the perfect sound and saving knowledge for said Christ the Spirit shall take of mine and shew them unto you And as holy men gave forth the Scriptures 2 Pet. 1. 21. so holy men and they only come truly to understand them and not proud or ungodly men because their hearts and lives do not answer the hearts and lives of those that gave them forth as face answereth face in a glass And this we believe to be the reason why so long preaching by men of corrupt minds who have and do handle the words deceitfully for selfish ends and filthy lucre sake hath brought forth so little fruit and been to so little purpose except to their purses and bellies for bad they believed and therefore spoken and stood in God's counsel they should have profited their hearers Jer. 23. 21 22 23. to the end Through this Gift we believe that Christ Jesus the Son of God was manifest in the flesh in the fulness of time And this we know by the same Spirit by which our Fathers believed he should come and Abraham saw his day by the same do we believe he is come and do see his day as also by the Prophets and Apostles Writings which twofold cord is not easily broken We believe also according to the Scriptures of truth that this same Jesus hath God highly exalted and given him a Name above every Name that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have Everlasting Life and that there is not another Name whereby man can be saved than this Name of Jesus Christ nor is Remission of Sins to be Preached by any other Name But as we do not believe that the outward letters syllables are that Name that are to be bowed to by the outward knee no more than the letters or syllables in the words God or Spirit seeing the 〈…〉 God who is a Spirit 〈…〉 45. 23. but that Name which saves is the Power and Arm of God that brings Salvation from Sin and makes every soul that names it to depart from Iniquity This is that Name which was preached and which is preached through Faith in which Name remission of sin is obtained Therefore was the outward word Jesus given him as his outward name Thou shalt call his name JESUS for he shall save his People from their Sins Mark for he shall save c. So that which saves is the Name which is to be believed in which is that Arm of God that brings Salvation when no eye pitties neither is there any to help the Power of God that then saves is that Grace that comes from the fulness of Christ the Saviour And without this vertue Christ and Jesus are but empty names 1 Cor. 12. 3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost We believe also that this Jesus died for or because of Sin and rose again for the Justification of those that believe in him as well as to manifest to all the world that he was the Son of God and that he thereby spoiled Principalities and Powers and triumphed over them openly and led captivity captive in his own person yet we believe and know by his Grace in our hearts that as his name Jesus without vertue and Power is but an empty word so his Dying without man's Conformity to his Death or being planted into the likeness thereof or being crucified with Christ as saith the Scripture Rom. 6. 2 3 4 5 6. Gal. 2. 20. will not profit man as unto the salvation of his soul no more than the naming of his outward name Jesus doth at this day make people to depart from iniquity For we believe and are sure that man must dye inwardly as well as Christ died outwardly and must be put to death in his flesh as Christ was in his for he that is in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8. 8. neither cease from sin but he that is dead is freed from sin Rom. 6. 7. And yet mans dying unto sin and the root and principle of it in himself is so far from making void Christ's Death in his own person that it establisheth it to all those ends and purposes for which it was intended of the Father As the cures which the Physician doth manifest and establish his skill and ability so doth mans dying unto sin and self and living unto God manifest and establish the virtue and power of Christ's Death for as man manifests his being risen with Christ by his seeking the things that are above Col. 3. 1 2. so doth he manifest his knowledge of the Death of Christ by his being crucified with Christ and bearing about in his body the dyings of the Lord Jesus for as it is not an outward belief gathered from the letter that will change the heart and life though the judgment and opinion it may so is it not a belief from the history or letter only that can give man a saving knowledge of the Death of Christ but he must have the

same glory and power of the Father in measure working in him there to beget Faith in his heart that he may believe unto Salvation from his own filthiness and righteousness as well as confess with his mouth Rom. 10. and must have that Spirit in him quickning his mortal body as well as to believe that it was in Christ and raised up him from the dead Rom. 8. 11. And this man whoever he be bond or free that thus believes the Death of Christ and its satisfaction to God as well as its usefulness to man cannot make it void nor divide it and its virtue upon the soul that thus knows it but will say here is a dying man witnessing the Death of Christ and nevertheless the same man living with Christ and concluding if Christ had not died man must have perished in his sin this being the way found out by God to recover him whereby he knows Christ and him crucified and what the preaching of the Cross of Christ is which is foolishness to them that perish but to them that are saved the Wisdom of God and the Power of God 1 Cor. 1. 18. By this Gift of God in our hearts we further believe That Christ Jesus rose again from the dead according unto the Scriptures and sits at God's right hand in a glorious body and we believe that our low estates and humbled 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 undone 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 on them in vain not liking to retain God in their knowledge though something within them shewes them what is good but they reject the Counsel of God within or against themselves to their own destruction Luk. 7. 30. see the Margent and yet it doth not follow that the Grace is insufficient of it self no more than it follows that Christ's 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 makes void the work of Regeneration and Mortification within but as the Apostle saith in another case so say I 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 answers 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 cannot 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 consine 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 is he at God's right hand far above all Heavens in a glorious body And we also believe the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust the one to Salvation and the other to Condemnation according unto the Judgment of the great Day and then shall every Seed have its own body according to 1 Cor. 15. 36 37 38. which we verily believe for if the dead arise not we are of all men most miserable But because we dare not be so foolishly inquisitive as to say With what bodies shall they arise therefore do some say we deny both the Resurrection of the Body of Christ and of all that are or shall be dead But this also is false for every man shall be raised in his own order but Christ the first fruits 1 Cor. 15. 23. And we believe they shall be raised with the same bodies so far as a natural and spiritual corruptible and incorruptible terrestrial and celestial can be the same We further believe according unto the Scriptures concerning Faith that that Faith is only true which is God's gift and hath Christ Jesus the Power of God for its author and object and is distinguished from the dead Faith by its fruits for though in description and definition they may carry a resemblance yet in nature are as different as a living man is from a dead which wants not form or shape but life and power So saith the Apostle James As the body without a spirit is dead so is Faith without Works even so is that Faith which stands in the wisdom of words and not in the Power of God by the one man is kept in captivity to the world and the things of it but by the other he hath victory over the world 1 Joh. 5. 4. and the Seal and Witness thereof in his own heart whereby it is purified and God is seen for the pure in heart see God Mat. 5. 8. This Faith differs men now and their Worships as it did Cain and Abel for by Faith Abel offered a more excellent Sacrifice than Cain Heb. 11. By this living Faith Abel saw beyond the Sacrifice unto Christ the first-born of God beyond the firstling of the flock which he offered and therefore God had respect unto Abel and his Offering but God rejected Cain and his Offering though he had Faith to believe it to be his duty yet sticking in the Form and not flying on the wing of Faith unto Christ the One Offering he missed the mark as all have done ever since that have gone in Cain's way of worshipping as well as killing men about Worship But we believe that Faith to be onely true and saving that slyes over self-righteousness as well as filthiness unto the Fountain of Life in Christ which Faith hath nothing of man in it but is as the breath of Life by which the Soul lives not a bare assent to the truth of a proposition in the natural understanding but the Soul 's cleaving unto God out of a naturalness between Christ and the Soul and so lives rather by relation than bare credit or desperate adventure and hazard not looking at