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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54161	A key opening a way to every common understanding, how to discern the difference betwixt the religion professed by the people called Quakers and the perversions, misrepresentations and calumnies of their several adversaries : published in great good will to all, but more especially for their sakes that are actually under prejudice from vulgar abuses.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1312A; ESTC R28422	12,318	37

subtilty of Satan as in other things to darken the Appearance of Truth and prepossess Peoples Minds against it For since he cannot hinder the Exaltation of the Spirit above all visible Instruments and the Necessity of its Motions and Operations to be known in the Hearts of Men and the great suitableness of it to the Gospel Administration he would spoil all by overdoing For they never denied the use of Means but to this Day from the beginning they have been in the use of them But then they are such Means as are used in the Life and Power of God and not in and from Mans meer Wit Will or Imitation the thing they strike at For instance they cannot own that to be a Gospel Ministry that is without a Gospel Spirit or that such can be sent of God that are not taught of God or that they are fit to teach others what Regeneration and the Way to Heaven are that have never been born again themselves or that such can ever bring Souls to God that are themselves strangers like those in the Acts 19. 21. to the Baptism of Fire and the Holy Ghost This is only the Ministry and these the Ministers that the People called Quakers cannot own and receive and therefore cannot maintain For the Ministry and Ministers that are according to Scripture they both own and delight in Read Jo. 14. 16 17 26. ch 16. 13. Acts 1. 8. Gal. 1. 1 15 16. It is strange because they deny all false Means or means not used in the Leadings of God's Power and Spirit that therefore they must deny all means however rightly employed This is an Injustice in their Enemies Wherefore all are desired to take notice That Evangelical Means and Order they love and desire to keep for they diligently assemble themselves together to worship God where they both pray in the Spirit and prophesie one by one as any thing is revealed to them according to 1 Cor. 14. 15 29 30 31. Nor are they without Spiritual Songs making Melody in their Hearts to God their Redeemer by the same Holy Ghost as they are comforted and moved by it Eph. 5. 19. Pervers 9. The Quakers deny the Trinity Princ. Nothing less They believe in the Holy Three or Trinity of Father Word and Spirit Jo. 1. 1. ch 14. 9. Rom. 9. 5. 1 Jo. 5. 7. And that these three are truly and properly one Of one Nature as well as Will. But they are very tender of quitting Scripture Terms and Phrases for Schoolmen's 1 Cor. 1. 18 31. ch 2. 2 6. Col. 2. 8. as Persons and Substances c. are And they judge that a curious Enquiry into those High and Divine Relations tends not to Godliness and Peace which should be the Aim of true Christians and therefore they cannot gratify that Curiosity in themselves or others Speculative Truths being to be sparingly and tenderly declared and never to be made the Measures of Christianity or Christian Communion For besides that Christ Jesus hath taught them other things the sad Consequences in all Times of superfining upon Scripture Texts hath sufficiently forbid them Men are too apt to let their Heads out-run their Hearts and Notion Obedience and with Passion to support their Conceits Pervers 10. The Quakers deny Christ to be God Princ. Nothing can well be more untrue and unreasonable for their great and characteristick Principle being this That Christ enlightens the Souls of all Men that come into the World with a Saving Light which nothing but the Creator of Souls can do It does sufficiently shew They believe him to be God But they truly and expressly own him so according to Jo. 1. 1. and Rom. 9. 5. to be God over all blessed for ever Pervers 11. The Quakers deny the Human Nature of Christ Princ. They never taught or said or held so gross a thing if by Human Nature be understood the Manhood of Christ Jesus For as they believe him to be God over all blessed for ever so they believe him to be of the Seed of Abraham and David after the Flesh and therefore truly and properly Man like us in all things and once subject to all things for our sakes Sin only excepted See Is 7. 14. Matt. 1. 23. Luke 1. 31. Pervers 12. The Quakers deny Christ's Transactions at Jerusalem and the shedding his Blood to be beneficial to them for it is the Light within only they expect to be saved by Princ. This is untruly charged upon them They do say that the Appearance of the second Adam Jo. 1. 14. Heb. 10. 5. the Lord from Heaven the Quickning Spirit in that holy Body prepared of the Father for him was for the Salvation of the World that had fallen in the first Adam That whatever Christ then did both Living and Dying was of great Benesit to all that then believed and is still to all that now do and hereafter shall to the end believe in him as they receive and obey the manifestation of his Light in their Consciences which leads Men to believe and value and not to disown Christ as the common Sacrifice and Mediator For they do affirm That to come to that Light and turn their Minds and bring all their Deeds and Thoughts to that is the readiest nay the only right way to come to have true Faith in Christ as he appeared in the Flesh and to discern the Lord's Body aright and to receive any real Benefit by him as their only Sacrifice and Mediator And it is not another than that Blessed Word Light Power Wisdom and Eternal Righteousness who then appeared in that Holy Body by whom they have received or can receive any true spiritual Benefit Light is from him Forgiveness through him and Sanctification only by him So that their ascribing Salvation in this Age to him who now appears to their Souls as before expressed cannot render him no Saviour in that Age or invalidate the Benefit of his blessed Appearance then on Earth or Mediation now in Heaven Whose Doctrine pierced whose Life preached whose Miracles astonished whose Blood attoned and whose Death Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven confirmed that Blessed Manifestation to be no less than the Word God who is Life and Light manifested in the Flesh 1 Tim. 3. 16. for the Salvation of the World and therefore properly and truly the Son of Man on Earth and now the Son of Man in Glory Pervers 13. The Quakers set up Works and Meriting by Works like the Papists whereby Justification by Faith in Christ is laid aside Princ. By no means They say with the Apostle James ch 2. That true Faith in Christ cannot be without Works no more than a Body can live without a Spirit and where there is Life there is Motion and where there is no Divine Life there is no Faith Nay by the Comparison if they were separable Works being compared to the Spirit would have the better The very believing is an Act of the Mind and therefore a godly Work and