Selected quad for the lemma: death_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A64454
|
A Testimony for the man, Christ Jesus repelling the poyson & fallacy of William Haworth's pretended antidote against the Quakers / from the people of [sic] Quakers at Hertford.
|
|
1676
(1676)
|
Wing T811; ESTC R9910
|
11,419
|
18
|
Losss of this so as not to have this inward or spiritual Obedience to the Righteous Law of God in his Heart whereas Paul saith expresly The Law of the spirit of Life in Christ Iesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and Death Rom. 8 2. This Man cau set up Justification and Imputation at an easie rate he can cast the Law of the Spirit within behind his Back and yet plead he is justified by the Imputation of Christ's Personal Righteousness O gross Hypocrisie whereas Christ came to condemn sin in the Flesh that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the Flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8. 4. Yet this Preacher W. H. confesseth That that of Regeneration is the making one meet for the Inheritance of the Kingdom and calls inherent Righteousness the Righteousness of the Law and saith That ALL the Righteousnesss that the BEST of the Saints have WITHIN them or without them is no more but the Righteousnesss of the Law by which we are not justified pag. 19. having before told us that Isaiah's Observance of Moses ' s Law in the spirit he calls it filthy Rags and Paul's Observance thereof but his own Righteousnesss which he counted Loss and Dung for Christ and now that ALL the Righteousness that the Best of Saints have within them is no more but the Righteousness of the Law that is all that God and Christ has wrought in them as their Regeneration Sanctification Renewing in the Inner Man after the Image of God and are but all a man 's own Righteousness Loss and Dung and did ye ever read such monstrous distracted Doctrine as this But to wheel about again and to overturn all this at one heave he confesseth That it is the Actions of the Deity that perfects all Good for us and IN US p. 7 8. And in his Epistle Dedicatory prayes for his much honoured Friend thus The Lord by his spirit establish settle strengthen you in this and every Truth and preserve you and your Elect Lady to his Heavenly Kingdom Here he seems to esteem highly of the Holy Spirit and its inward Work how sleight soever he hath made of it in other places But for his distracted and incongruous Works he hath provided this Salve in his Epistle viz. Pray Sr. candidly bear with what may not be so congruously worded in so sublame a Mystery as also that he is the least and most unfit of his Brethren Now if this man were really as humble as here he pretends he would study to be quiet among his Neighbours and not to concern himself in these Controversies which he is so incongruous and distempered in and so unfit for the Mannagement of And you that are his chief Hearers would be his Friends if you did perswade him to Quietness and not to trouble his weak Head with these Controversies last he fall into such manifest Distraction as may tend to his and your great Reproach for he appears in some Danger and do not give him Money for endeavouring to keep you and Christ at a Distance Reviling the Quakers and Undervaluing the Light Within and inward Vertues and Operations of the Spirit of God And as to his Boast That to this day his whole Book is at our Door Unanswered We say this is not strictly True for an Answer hath been writ to it a long time but the Publication deferred partly for the same Reason he gives for C. Taylor 's Paper viz. Counsel hath been given to sletght it by Silence as not being worthy an Answer or particular Animadversion But if by his too much Boasting and Clamour he occasions its Publication it may not redound to his Credit but he himself may have need of a better Antidote then yet he hath found out Hertford the 24th of the 5th Moneth 1676. THE END
yet in page 5. he confesseth That Christ is in the Saints by his Spirit and that Christ was certainly with Paul as to his Spirit where he said The Lord stood by me 2 Tim. 4. 17. And this is the very thing the Quakers plead for viz. Christ's Spiritual Presence with his Saints See how the Man is confounded after he has gone about to limit the Man Christ Iesus wholely in Body Soul and Spirit to a remote Place from his Saints or Church here on Earth yet is made to confess to this Truth viz. That Christ is in his Saints by his Spirit If he sayes He means only as God who is immense and as to his Presence every where This were to tell us He does not mean any thing of the Man Christ is in his Saints on Earth when he confesseth that by his Spirit he is in the Saints and yet his Spirit is an Essential Part of the Man Christ let him reconcile himself herein if he can instead of any further Reviling and Abusing the Quakers as Ungodly Seducers disowning Iesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah and denying him to be a real and true Man both which are abominable Slanders seeing they own him to be both God and Man in Union inseparable the Father and Son one the Father in the Son and the Son in the Father he that seeth the Son seeth the Father also We are not only accused with denying where the Man Christ Iesus is ascended into Heaven but also what he is to wit the Messiah if a true real Man and yet he faith They may grant a Manhood and yet deny the Flesh in which he was to be in Heaven See how uncertain and doubtful this Man is in his Charge that they may deny his Manhood and yet grant a Manhood Whereas we have alway believed and owned the Man Christ Jesus according to the plain History of him in holy Scripture as well as in the Mystery as namely That he was miraculously conceived by the Holy Ghost overshadowing the Virgin Mary that he lived an innocent and sinless Life preacht powerfully wrought Miracles was Crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh Buried and Rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and was seen of his Disciples and many Brethren after he arose see 1 Cor. 15. 3 4 5 6. and that the same Body that was put to Death was raised by the Power of God And this was not only an Appearance or Spectrum in the Shape of a man as W. H. saith some have held nor yet a meer phantastical Body or Apparition but a real Body really seen both before and after his Resurrection and at his Ascension also while he blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into Heaven Luk. 24. 50 51. And while they beheld he was taken up and a Cloud received him out of their Sight Acts 1. 9 10. So we confess the same Man Christ not only to be still in being but also Glorified his Body to be a glorious heavenly and spiritual Body And as to his being Man We have one Mediator between God and Men even the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. And God will judge the World in Righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained whom he hath raised from the Dead Acts 17. 31. Again This Man after he had offered up one Sacrifice for Sins forever sate down on the Right Hand of God Hebrews 10. 12 And since by man came Death by Man also came the Resurrection of the Dead the first man is of the Earth earthly the second Man is the Lord from Heaven So that this Man Christ did neither vanish nor perish in anything essential to him either as to his Soul Spirit or Body ‖ As for W. H's taking advantage upon a private Discourse with his Neighbour W. B. whether he truly states it or not is questionable and thence to notifie him and the Quakers in print shews a peevish ereeping insinuating spirit in him that seeks occasions against his neighbours to quarrel which is not the way to convince or gain upon their Conscience to be sure of under any Mistake but is highly exalted and glorified being made higher then the Heavens Heb. 7. 26. being sate down on the right Hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. 3. who is set on the right Hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens Heb. 7. 1. And Jesus said Ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right Hand of the Power that is the Power of God and coming in the Clouds of Heaven Mark 14. 62. Luke 22. 69. But now the Difference between us and our Adversary W. Haworth lies here if he still shall argue that because this glorious and Heavenly Man Jesus Chrâ—st is thus exalted at the Right Hand of the Power and Majesty of God on high that therefore he is not here on Earth or in his Saints either as to his Soul or Spirit We cannot own such a Limitation of Christ's or God's Right Hand of Power thus to look on them as so far remote and separate from us as this Man doth wherein he seems somewhat to resemble that carnal Opinion of those called Anthropomorphites who mistaking that Saying Let us make Man in our own Image held that God was like unto Man in Form and Shape and the like doth Muggleton and his Disciples now that God is of the stature and Bigness of a Man and the Man Christ at his Right Hand as such And thus carnally and blasphemously have some Men gone about to limit the Infinite and Omnipotent God looking only literally upon him and his Right Hand of Power and then how were his People of old saved or upheld by his right Hand Surely God's Right Hand is where he is not confined or limited from his Saints who are sustained and preserved thereby It 's true that Jesus Christ said I go to prepare a Place for you John 14. 2 3 I am no more in the World but these are in the World I come to thee holy Father John 17. Now this saith W. H. must needs be as to his Manhood for the Father and he were one as to his Godhead in Essence and so he was with the Father from Eternity John 1. 1. Prov. 8. 22. 30. And who denyes this did we ever deny that the Man Christ the Son of God went unto the Father who is in Heaven when he ascended but doth it then follow that Jesus Christ is so contained and limited there in a remote Place from his Church as not to be here on Earth in his Saints but only in such Places where we read of Jesus Christ by Name appearing that either they saw him the Heavens being opened or it was in Extasie as W. Haworth saith page 4. If his being ascended into Heaven hinders him from being on Earth why not his ascending far above all Heavens from being in Heaven but in the very same Place before quoted John