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A34436	The Quakers cleared from being apostates, ok [sic], The hammerer defeated and proved an impostor being an answer to a scurrilous pamphlet falsly intituled William Penn and the Quakers either apostates or impostors, subscribed Trepidantium Malleus : with a postscript containing some reflections on a pamphlet intituled The spirit of Quakerism and the danger of their divine revelation, laid open / by B.C.	Coole, Benjamin, d. 1717.	1696 (1696)	Wing C6047; ESTC R29716	43,852	97

for as the one decreased the other increased as the Sun 's light swallows up the Moon 's for as the Moon has its time of service in which Mankind is much benefited by its Light although it be a borrowed one from the Sun even so was John's Baptism of great Benefit when he preach'd Repentance to the People and Baptized them in Jordan as they confess'd their Sins being the Preparer of the Way of Christ for though he was a burning and shining Light in his Ministry yet he was but a Witness to bear witness of the Light that all Men through him might believe who was the true Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World John 1. 7 8 9. This is the Son of Righteousness this is the Lamb of God this is the Baptizer with Holy Ghost and Fire who when he comes the Lesser the Witness the Forerunner the Baptizer with Water must give place too As when the Sun appears in our Horizon the Moon 's light is so overcome that we have no Advantage by it by reason of the more transcending Light of the Sun so that it 's very evident John and Christ's Ministry and Baptisms were as much two distinct Ministrations as John the Son of Zacharias and Jesus of Nazareth the Son of Mary were two distinct Persons or the Sun and Moon are two great yet distinct Lights for the Moon is not the same Light that the Sun is though she has her Light from the Sun nor is John the Baptist's Ministration the same with Christ's though he came from God and had obtained such Credit amongst the People for his time that it was said All Men mused in their Hearts of John whether he were the Christ or no Mat. 3. 15. Nay they were by John himself declared to be two distinct Baptisms as the Text declares he shall c. I do c. mine with Water his with the Holy Ghost See the Text Mat. 3. 11. Mark 1. 8. John 1. 15 to 34. and make the Application But how preposterous is it to think that Christ should send his Disciples in John's Errand or Service who was but the Forerunner for so to do was to set his Disciples to run counter and therefore though the Disciples for the sake of the Jews and new Converted Gentiles did do it it 's plain they did it upon the foot of Discretion and not by Commandment and when these Men of the Circumcision as well as the Gentiles had received the Holy Ghost by the Apostles Ministry since Baptizing with Water was practiced amongst them from John's Example the Apostle did say Who can forbid Water c. but that this proves the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Baptism of Water to be but one Baptism I deny as I do also that this Practice proves it to be of Divine Institution notwithstanding it was not then forbidden but they went into the Water and were Baptized Again there is a vast difference between receiving the Gift of the Spirit by the Ministry of the Disciples and a being Baptized by the same Spirit for by the Gift received they came unto a Convinc'd Estate which Convincement was wrought by the Holy Ghost through the Apostles Ministry and was to them the Glad-tydings of Salvation if from that state of Convincement they prest on to a thorough Conversion So that the receiving of the Holy Ghost mentioned in that Text may be very aptly compared to the Leaven in the Parable Mat. 13. 33. Luke 13. 20 21. which as it is subjected to leavens the whole Lump and Plunges or Baptizeth the Soul with all its Faculties into its own Nature and this is the Baptism we own it being that of the Holy Ghost But to winde up the whole matter if Mat. 28. 19 20. was a Commission to the Disciples to Baptize with Water then they were obliged to perform it in the Terms of that Commission But they never performed it in the Terms of that Communion Therefore c. Again the Terms of that Commission was to Baptize in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost But the Disciples Baptized none with Water in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost Therefore c. And so I end this part and shall only add with respect to breaking Bread and drinking Wine in a Sacramental way as they call it that we have disused it because we do certainly know that to us the Substance is come the Heavenly Bread and Wine of the Kingdom to our great Joy and Refreshment which are the Principal Memento's to us of the breaking of Christ's Body and shedding his most Precious Blood for us And as often as we are made Partakers hereof we shew forth his Death and bear in our Bodies the Marks of the Dying of the Lord Jesus which Marks are a Death to Sin and a New Life to Holiness for he was Crucified for our Sins and Rose again for our Justification as well as a perfect Resignation to the Will of God For though our Adversaries have set times for the Receiving of what they call the Lord's Supper and without doubt such set times are to them the most Religious and Sacred part of their Devotion and we have not yet let it be known to them that there are certain Times and Seasons that are more than in the common or ordinary way Sacred to us but these Times and Seasons are in the Father's Hands and not ours and for them we wait in all our Religious Meetings and though we do not always Enjoy what we wait for yet we meet with so much Encouragement as to continue our Waiting and Attention until He we wait for who is the Bread of Life indeed is pleased to make himself known to us by a Spiritual breaking of Bread and therefore what need is there for such to use the Outward and Visible Sign when the Inward and Spiritual Substance is come But for all those that are not come to this Substance but are Religiously and Devoutly Travelling after it and hope to get it with the Visible Sign we are not for being Censorious upon them knowing that the Light of a Candle Moon or Stars are serviceable till the Suns light break forth and overcome it all I have but one Point more to speak to and then I shall end and that is about the Light within which our Adversary saith page 78. we commonly understand by it Conscience now that this Man should so affirm when in page 79. he pretends to have read R. B. upon it shews his wilful Blindness Ignorance and Envy for he that has read R. B's Apology and shall yet say That the Quakers understand by the Light Conscience must be Mad Envious or Foolish but if he were not all three think you he would in page 78. say They understand by the Light Conscience and in page 79. say Some Friends makes it God but R. B. a Substance and calls it Vehiculum Dei this is the Man that will

some of his Brethren has set forms he infers though very unjustly that the Quakers decline it We do say if Men pray they ought to pray with the Spirit and with an Understanding also and therefore we say all are to attend the Spirits time in order to help them in the production of what it hath conceived and 't is certain that they who are intent hereon shall not find themselves at a loss for want of the Spirit to enable them when the Circumstance of Time and Place calls for it yet at all times Men are to have their Hearts set on God and to meditate on his Law but they are not always obliged to a Vocal Prayer nor doth God expect it though sometimes he do that they may sanctifie his Name by a Vocal Prayer as well in a private Family as a publick Meeting and this the Quakers own and practice therefore he is a Defamer Persecutor and Impostor for insinuating the contrary In Page 51. Our Adversary is very Abusive touching our belief of a Christ within which he falsly puts in opposition to a Christ without saying This Word outward is in great Contempt with them but how this word Outward is so contemptible with them he has not assigned That we are Contemners of the outward Scripture is false from what is said before That we are Contemners of Christ viz. he that was Crucified is as false for we are well assured that by the Offering up of himself upon the Cross he became a Propitiatory Sacrifice for the Sins of the whole World and by vertue of his Blood comes Remission of Sins and yet this Remission is no otherwise to be Experienced than by Mens Repentance and Belief of the Truth and a Faithful walking in Holiness of Life with which as an Ingenious Author said we may but without which we never shall be saved notwithstanding Christ Died for us The Design of whose Death was not to make a good Life unnecessary but to render it efficacious and available not to procure a Priviledge of being Saved without it as some fancy but that we might be Saved with it c. After he has told his Reader That Baptism and the Lord's Supper were Outward Ordinances with them he queries But why does not these Men contemn outward Meats and Drinks and Outward Cloathing too If they did the Controversie would soon be at an end But for all his Scoffs he is mistaken though by ending the Controversie he means we should be out of his way I must confess I believe it would be a joyful Day to him and such as he But pray let me Expostulate with these People a little Are not you for an inward Vertue from Christ the Fountain to Revive your Spirits and Comfort your Souls under any Affliction as well as to Encourage you to Perseverance Are not you for the Marrow of the Scripture as well as the Words and Sentences therein contained Are not you for sitting down in an Heavenly Place in Christ Are not you desirous of receiving the Substance of what Baptism and the Supper is but the Sign of If you say Yea may not I if I would act the part of this Hammerer return it upon you that you are since you cry up the outward all for the outward but not at all for the inward Which I can with as much Justice and Truth do as he has Charg'd the Quakers for contemning all the outward c. But what a poor Flurt was it to bring in outward Meats and Drinks and Cloaths too and then the Controversie he saith will soon be ended But that 's not true for we are against outward Meats and Drinks and Cloathing too and yet the Controversie is not ended and if he had not been blinded with Folly as well as Envy he might have escaped such a Blunder For where Meats and Drinks are offered either Superstitiously or Profanely the Quakers are against it and refuse it But what a comparison he has made Here is Christ without the Scriptures without Heaven without Baptism without the Lord's Supper without with outward Meats outward Drings and outward Cloating and what weight there is in that pray read Col. 2. 17. and then let him tell me according to his own Comparison what real ground there is for him or any else to blame the Quakers for disusing the Two Great Ordinances as they call them since according to his Comparison they are but a shadow and if People have seen and enjoy the Substance and will follow it rather than the Shadow are they to be blamed for it or called Hereticks But till the Substance is known those Shadows may have their Service and we are not for pressing any to decline it till their own Convictions do For I agree with the Apostles who said Let every Man be fully perswaded in his own Mind There has been many Books writ upon this Subject of Baptism I shall therefore say the less the greatest Argument I have ever heard brought for the Continuation of Water-Baptism was from Acts 10. 48. which stands thus Can any Man forbid Water that those should not be Baptized which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we from which they argue that if Baptism was not a standing Ordinance since these had received the Holy Ghost why was it here practiced I Answer first of all there was no mention of Water in the Commission Mat. 28. 19 20. yet to teach Baptizing was secondly since John's Baptism was distinguisht from Christ's by Water as that was from John's by the Holy Ghost nothing can be more plain than that Christ intended his and not John's Baptism And if the Apostle Paul was not behind as he saith he was not any of the Apostles yet 't is evident he did not understand Mat. 28. 19 20. in the sence our Adversaries do for if Baptizing with Water was a part of the Commission there mentioned he never understood his Commission if he had he would not have thanked God that he Baptized so few as he did and positively declared that he was not sent to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel but that he did some and Peter more is true but this neither proves it a standing Ordinance nor yet that it was by Command from God to be a standing Ordinance but as in the Case of Circumcision Anointing the Sick and divers other things practiced by the Jews whose Religion was greatly Ceremonious as the Gentiles was Idolatrous the Disciples of Jesus condescended as in the case of Circumcision that by becoming all to all they might gain some for to take them off all at once was not likely to be received by them since by a long Custom they had used themselves to such outward things But besides John himself had before declared that he must decrease and that Christ must increase which plainly implied the decrease of his Ministry and Baptism not all at once but gradually as it did the increase of Christ's Ministry and Baptism

not Belie or Abuse the Quakers if he do let him be accounted the greatest Defamer upon Earth c. But that they the Quakers do not understand it to be Conscience he himself has proved quoting Ro. Barclay calling it Vehiculum Dei whose Book is approved by the Quakers and contains their Faith and Doctrine in the Points Controverted and thither I refer the Ingenious Reader for a more full and ample satisfaction but since that Book is large and this being part of our present Controversie in pursuing this Hammerer I shall freely declare first Negatively That by the Light we never understood it to be Conscience since Conscience is liable to be corrupted and hardened as said the Apostle but this Principle of Divine Light is not obnoxious to any alteration or change from its own pure and holy Nature to any degree of Corruption whatsoever nor is it natural Reason for there is an apparent depravity come thereupon But secondly I declare Positively That by the Light we understand a glorious Beam or Ray proceeding from Christ the Fountain of Light displaying it self into our Souls for the enlightning of our Understandings and to put us in a Capacity to distinguish between Object and Object for as a Blind Man cannot discern the difference in Colours for want of his sight so all Men in their natural Estate are in as great a degree of Spiritual Blindness until by this Light they are in a degree enlightned hence it is that all are called Children of Wrath and that there is none that doth good no not one nor can it be otherwise for although Custom and Tradition may influence Men to do what they think they ought to do and deter them from what they have been taught to avoid yet till by a degree more or less of this Light they are enlightned it 's a Blind Zeal and Will-worship which is not at all acceptable to God but is Iniquity as is the Plowing of the Wicked though otherwise in it self an inoffensive Exercise so that the sight and knowledge of what makes for Man's Everlasting Happiness depends upon this Divine Light for without it we have no sight and consequently no Spiritual Knowledge since Man's Natural Reason is so depraved that he can no more search into and behold the glorious things that relates to the Kingdom of God and his Immortal State they being too Sublime for him than 't is possible for a Man to look into and search out the Matter and Nature of the Sun with his Bodily Eyes which if he attempts is soon Convinced of his Folly by being blinded by the inaccessible transcending Glory and Light thereof so that as the Apostle said 1 Cor. 2. 11. For what Man knoweth the things of a Man save the Spirit of a Man that is in him even so the things of God knoweth no Man but the Spirit of God And in Verse 14. But the natural Man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned I say then since Man in his Natural Estate is not able to know the things of God it is most certain that he must if ever he know them come to it by the help not of a Natural but Divine Light and such a Divine Light God who is in Christ Reconciling the World to himself the Father of Lights has sent his Son the Light of the World to bless the World withal that by believing in him Men may come out of Darkness and be turned every one of them from the Evil of their Ways It 's true he was a glorious Light in his Life Ministry Miracles Sufferings Death and Resurrection and as such there is no Dispute but we are obliged to believe in him and then we shall not abide in that Darkness and Unbelief the Jews c. are now in but that it should be restricted to that we deny since himself promised to come again and to be in his and with his to the end of the World to lead them into all Truth to Comfort as well as Convince them and in fine to dwell with them and in them according to Jo. 14. 16 17 18 21 23. and 15. 26. and 16. 7. with many more in the New Testament so that notwithstanding a Belief of Christ's Coming in the Flesh and Suffering and therein becoming a most Compleat Sacrifice for Remission of the Sins of the whole World Men may live and die in an unreconcileable State and fall short of that Salvation Jesus Christ has by his Blood purchased for them for a bare Belief and Consent to the Truth hereof doth not Entitle any Man to the Salvation therein offered unless he lives conform to the Will of God viz. Repent of his former Life and Vanity Believes viz. has Faith in God and Christ and that holy Spirit sent forth to purif●e his Heart and submits to the Work of it and leads a Life of Godliness and Honesty for time to come these are terms upon which Christ the Saviour is offered to every Man and they that perform these Conditions have the Benefit of the Sacrifice of Christ and for his sake God will look on them as if they had never sinned at all Now since to come to this Qualification where the Righteousness of Christ is truly to be imputed requires a real and effectual Change from Nature to Grace from Darkness to Light how is it possible that this Change can be effected without a steady adhering to this Divine Light which as it is obeyed in all its Manifestations leads out of all Darkness and Death into the Marvelous Light of Life nor doth this Principle of Light that manifest whatsoever is reprovable Eph. 5. 13. to that end it may be relinquished contradict the Light in the Scriptures for the Commands of the Holy Ghost in Scripture are made by this Light much more Effectual and Obligatory upon us for we do not place the Authority of Scripture only from its being esteemed Canonical but also from the Testimony of the Divine Light in our own Hearts which would have obliged the Believers therein to have believed the Holy Scriptures Sacred and of Divine Authority if no such Canons had past to put a Sanction on them How Unjust Uncharitable and Wicked then are our Adversaries that stick not to say We debase the Scripture to set up our own Light In short by the Light within we understand not Conscience nor Natural Reason but that Light which from the Son of Righteousness Jesus Christ the Light of the World shines into the Hearts of the Sons of Men to give them the Knowledge of the Glory of God or that Spirit of Truth that was promised should Convince the World of Sin and lead into all Truth or that Word nigh in the Heart and Mouth to be heard and obeyed or that still small Voice that saith This is the Way walk in it when turning to the Right