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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

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 LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. TRUTH' 's PRINCIPLES OR Those things about Doctrine and Worship which are most surely believed and received amongst the People of God called QUAKERS MAny are the Reports that are abroad concerning this People not only as to their Practices and Deportments but also as to their Doctrines and Beliefs The former time having in a great measure resolved and worn out as being the refuge of lyes for the ignorant and unrighteous to fly unto but that stormy and wintry appearance is well nigh over and gone because the Sun is so far risen and the true Light so shineth that most begin to see that those reports were but lyes and scandals raised as Fig-leaves to cover the nakedness of other Professions that begun so manifestly to appear through the Light that shined in these Peoples Lives and Conversations But though the first be gone yet the latter still sticks with many as not knowing what they hold as to Doctrine some saying they deny the Scripture and the Resurrection of the body and all Ordinances with the Man Christ and his Death and Sufferings and imputation of his Righteousness and faith in his Blood c. Wherefore for the satisfaction of all that would willingly be resolved and know the Truth as it is in Jesus I have written this short Account of their Faith and Belief and if it were possible to stop the mouth of clamorous tongues before Sentence be given against them by some signal stroke of the Lord from Heaven which he will undoubtedly in his appointed time reveal and make manifest to the trembling of all hearts concerned therein and tingling of all ears that shall hear thereof when it shall be said to them The holy shall be holy still and be that is filthy let him be filthy still Rev. 22. 11. We believe that the God of all Grace hath given a measure of Grace or some manifestation of his Spirit and Light thereof unto all men according unto these Scriptures John 1. 9. Tit. 2. 11. 1 Cor. 12. 7. Nehem. 9. 20. and experiences of all men who at some time or other do feel something in their Hearts and Consciences that doth lust against the flesh and the flesh against it and that these two are contrary the one to the other one lusting after evil which is evil and the other after good which is good the one carnal the other spiritual the one from the Earth the other from Heaven Gal. 5. 16 17. We believe By this Gift Grace and Inspiration of the Almighty man only can come to know the true God truly What he is and how he works in the Hearts and Consciences of People to regenerate them and make them bear his Image according unto 1 Cor. 1. 19 20 21. Luke 10. 21. and experiences of all that ever were regenerate and born again We believe that all the Errors and mistakes about God and the things relating to his Kingdom sprang and arose from mens wandring from this Gift of God into their own Imaginations whereby though they thought themselves wise yet they became fools and erred their foolish hearts being darkned according to Rom. 1. not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God as it is written Mat. 22. 29. We believe and know that this Gift and Grace of God appears in and unto all men that all may be without excuse accusing for the evil and excusing for the good according to Rom. 2. 15 16. shewing unto man what is good and reproving of him in his own Conscience for the evil whether thoughts words or deeds and that this reproof of Instruction is the way of Life Prov. 6. 23. We believe that as the true God and Eternal Life is known only by the light of this Gift and Grace according unto the Scriptures from which Light and Spirit of God came the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament as it is written 2 Pet. 1. 21. so can they only be read as truly to be believed fulfilled and practised in the Light and Power of the same and all that are out of this Spirit must needs be ignorant and unlearned in the Apostle's sense who wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction as it is written for Peter and John were unlearned men outwardly not knowing letters but inwardly read in the knowledge of this Light and Spirit of God and wrested not the SCRIPTURES Acts 4. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 16. We believe according to the Scriptures 2 Cor. 4. 3. that wheresoever the Power of God is not known within there the Gospel is hid and unknown unto them that are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them and God should heal them because it is only by the Light of Christ the Power of God that the Creature comes truly to see himself in his lost and undone estate from which sight ariseth the true sence in the heart of the Creature that makes him cry out of his wretchedness by reason of the body of sin and death which necessitates him to look out for a Saviour whom God manifesteth in and by the same Light that shines in the heart on purpose to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ God's Image whereby God healeth the soul And therefore doth the Devil the god of the world strive so much by the gifts of the pleasures profits vanities and lusts that are in the world which he presenteth to men and women now as he did to Christ in the dayes of his flesh when he shewed to him all the world with its glory which glory is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life what-ever may make this life happy as it were in the things that may pride it or lift it up to sit as Queen And as men and women take and receive these gifts from the god of this world their minds are blinded because they believe not in the Light which sheweth them the vanities of all the gifts of the god of this world which gifts the Devil knows if they be received will so blind the minds of them that receive them that they will not come to be sensible in the true Light of their lost conditions so as to cry unto God

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