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A65885	The rector examined about his book scandalously stiled, An antidote against the venom of Quakerism, by John Meriton, who calls himself A.M. rector of Boughton in Norfolk : and his observations remarked, and the Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers, re-asserted and vindicated, from his perversions and aspersions / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing W1953; ESTC R20277	40,584	48

the said Snake c. but more fully in a farther Scrutiny made in a Book now Extant Entituled Anguis Flagellatus Or a Switch for the Snake By Joseph Wyeth When this Rector can demonstrate a Probatum est of such vertue in that Poor Element as he calls it of Water-Baptism as to cleanse and cure polluted and distempered Souls from Sin Spiritual Leprosie and Diseases as Naaman the Assyrian was cured of his Leprosie by washing seven times in the River of Jordan 2 Kings 5. 13. or as the Blind Man found in washing in the Pool of Siloam that he receiv'd Sight and came seeing John 9. 11. unto both which the Rector alludes in 's comparison for Water-Baptism Then I say if he can evince a Probatum of such vertue therein according to his own comparison It will be a most pregnant Argument to induce People to believe 't is required of them to be dipt or baptized in the Element of Water and to hasten into it especially if they can believe it can effect such a Miracle as an Inward and Spiritual Cure upon their Souls as to Cleanse and Cure them from Sin and the Leprosie thereof as well as from Spiritual Blindness which answers the Allusions before and the more necessity thereof if they may not be so cured without it as this Rector saith of Naaman If he had neglected it he had not otherwise been cured How much more then quoth he when God has appointed the means of Baptism by his Son if we neglect it shall we be saved without it p. 31. This is like Dipp or Damn still and yet all this while he may mean Rantism which is not properly Baptism but I deny either i. e. with the Element of Water to be the means of Salvation or that as such God has so appointed them and that Men shall not be Saved without them i. e. without Sprinkling or Dipping in Water the Rector still imposes and begs the Question in all these without Scripture proof I would not be understood to own or allow any despite to Water-Baptism or inventing contemptible Names for it as the Rector insinuates as it was once a Dispensation from Heaven to John Baptist nor do I either condemn despise or contemn any who are tenderly Conscientious in the Belief and Practise thereof but desire they may see and come further so as to receive that Inward Spiritual Baptism the Washing of Regeneration by which Christ effectually Saveth the True Believers in him I desire none may Idolize the outward Element of Water which cannot Save to hinder them of the Inward which can Save And it being generally granted that the outward Baptism is an outward and visible Sign of an Inward and Spiritual Grace and Type or Figure of the Inward Baptism I wish Men would be so considerate as to examine what Necessity there can be of the continuance of the Sign or Type when they do not hear Christ the Great Prophet directing thereto nor does it effect the end proposed i. e. the Washing away of Sin seeing the Substance and Mystery thereof is made manifest and a Spiritual Dispensation or Ministry from Heaven given immediately directing to the Life Substance the end of all Shadows which really end in Christ the Substance whose Evangelical Ministry is a Dispensation of the Grace of God of Substance and not of Shadow Quest. Do you believe or own the Lord's Supper either as a Sign of the Love that Christians ought to have among themselves or as a Seal of the Saints Communion and Commemoration of Christ's Death for us or as Figurative of Christ's Body and Blood Spiritually received by Faith Answ. The Supper of the Lord we own and tenderly consider in a Two-fold Sense 1. In the Figure 2. In the Substance 1. That our Lord Jesus Christ at his Supper with his Disciples did eat the Passover which was for the fulfilling and Consummation of the Feasts under the Law see Luke 22. and at this Supper he did take and minister Bread and the Cup to his Disciples for there was no Transubstantiation saying This do in remembrance of me And saith the Apostle As often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shew the Lord's Death till he come 1 Cor. 11. After this they did more clearly know his Coming and Christ after the Spirit Jesus Christ in them 2 Cor. 13 5. 5. 16. 2. And Christ said to his Disciples I will not drink henceforth of this Fruit of the Vine until that day I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom Matt. 26. 29. And likewise of the Passover I will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God Luke 22. 16. And he further said I appoint unto you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed to me that ye may eat and drink at my Table in my Kingdom c. Luke 22. 29 30. In these things we believe he spoke Mysteriously and that every Member of his Spiritual Church doth daily Spiritually partake of his Body and Blood by Faith as The Cup of Blessing which we bless is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ And the Bread which we break Is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ For we being many are one Bread and one Body for we are all Partakers of that one Bread 1 Cor. 10. 15 16 17. The Son of God saith Behold I stand at the door and knock if any Man hear my voice and open the Door I will come in to him and will Sup with him and he with me Rev. 3. 20. And Wisdom calleth to the Simple Come eat of my Bread and drink of my Wine Prov. 9. 4 5. And saith Christ The Bread of God is he that cometh down from Heaven and giveth Life unto the World I am that Bread of Life my Flesh is Meat indeed and my Blood is Drink indeed He that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him John 6. We believe that all who thus do truly partake of Christ by Faith are in true Communion and Love among themselves which they do want who are only in the outward Observation of Signs and Shadows Upon which the Rector makes this Observation viz. The Reader may here discern how by their deceivable Words and manifold Corruptions of the Scriptures these horrid Impostors set themselves at work to evade and make null the Holy Ordinance of the Lord's Supper as instituted and administred in Bread and Wine c. p. 34. Reply He passes severe Judgment before either Proof or Trial as one more expert in Railing and Reviling than in Demonstration For our considering the Supper of the Lord in a Two-fold Sence 1. In the Type or Figure 2. In the Substance Is neither Deceivable nor Corruption of Scripture consequently 't is a horrid Calumny to brand us as Horrid Impostors for such Consideration We know none but Papists that will deny the outward Bread and Wine to be

Typical though Consecrated We are sure no real Protestants do deny them to be Typical or Figurative but have affirm'd them so to be And whether the Supper of the Lord or Christ's Last Supper in the Type Luke 22. was made up only of the Bread broken and the Cup is a Question to be considered by them who assert it or whether the Passover was not principally concern'd in the Supper seeing that also after Supper Christ took the Cup and gave them I deny that the Bread and the Wine only as now ministred by Priests is either properly a Supper or a Dinner How then come they to call it The Supper of the Lord Or deny it to be a Type or Figure by deeming us Horrid Impostors for asserting the outward Supper to be Typical 'T is true it 's said As oft as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew the Lord's Death till he come 1 Cor. 11. 26. I hope our Adversary will not make As oft to import a Command and that perpetual too unless till he Christ come can import a perpetual Delay of his Coming And though Christ's Last Supper wherein he eat the Passover with his Disciples was then pro tempore commanded by him yet this does not prove it his Institution For it was a Legal Institution fulfilled by him as other Legal Rites and Types were before he was offer'd up That Christ as the Bread of Life from Heaven and his Divine Virtue Grace and Spirit as the Fruit of him the heavenly Vine which gives Life Nourishment and Comfort unto the Soul was really the Substance and Mystery typified by the outward Bread and Cup I hope no Spiritual Believer or Christian will deny And to suppose they shall not partake thereof until Christ's Coming at the Resurrection is to suppose their Souls must starve and famish in the mean time which can be no glad Tidings to them The Rector falsly charges us with saying The Resurrection is past already as Hymeneus and Philetus 2 Tim. 2. 18. p. 34. 'T is none of our saying we deny that the Resurrection there spoken of is past or made already or that we overthrow the Faith of any believing therein as it is to come by Christ Jesus who is the Resurrection and the Life and by whom comes the Resurrection of the Dead 1. Cor. 15. And I would ask this Rector where we say or use these Expressions That the Institution of the Lord's Supper was only to continue till that Inward Coming or forming of Christ in our Hearts and for that Reason throw off the outward Supper p. 34 35. Where have we so said or argued For our not using the Type is rather because we do not believe it of Force or Necessity under an higher Dispensation namely that of the New Covenant established by the Death of Christ the Testator who blotted out and nailed the hand-writing of Ordinances to his Cross the Dispensation of the Gospel and New Covenant being a Dispensation of Substance and not of Shadows although they were in some things condescended unto in a State of Infancy when not impos'd as things Essential to Christianity or Salvation It 's true that they who gladly received the Word continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship and in breaking of Bread and in Prayers Acts 2. 42. And Verse 46. And they continuing daily with one Accord in the Temple and breaking Bread from House to House did eat their Meat with Gladness and singleness of Heart No doubt they were very Innocent in this Practice Praising God c. v. 47. And this we have often done and believe it is the Duty of all true Christians to eat their Meat with Singleness of Heart and whether they eat or drink to do all to the Glory of God 1 Cor. 10. 31. Col. 3. 17. And what greater Sanction can this Man suppose or place upon what he calls the Lord's Supper Ought we not to praise God for all his Benefits and use them to his Glory daily and not only in a daily Remembrance of Christ and his Love to us but also in a true sense thereof and of his Sanctifying Word In Acts the second quoted it 's also said Verse 44 45. And all that believed were together and had all things common and sold their Possessions and Goods and parted them to all Men as every Man had need Now if our Opposers will make all Examples and Practices binding then why do they not follow this of having all things common and selling their Possessions c. I do not think the Priests now a-days will imitate them or deem themselves bound thereby And where do they so much as imitate those Primitive Believers in breaking Bread from House to House And how will they prove this Breaking of Bread only to be the Lord's Supper I deny that to be made up only of Bread and I cannot suppose this Man will esteem it a sufficient Supper Nor do I find that the Apostles call Believers only breaking Bread from House to House Acts 2. or the Disciples coming together to break Bread Acts 20. 7. the Lord's Supper where they neither mention Wine nor the Passover Nor would it be of good report to say they drank Wine from House to House And if it should be asserted That the Lord's Supper was made up only of breaking Bread would not this gratifie the Popish Priests in giving their Sacrament but in one kind However the outward Bread as broken and the outward Cup as ministred by our Lord Jesus Christ were not only Figurative of his Body and Blood as offer'd upon the Cross but also did Typifie the Saints Eating and Drinking the Body and Blood of Christ Spiritually who saith My Flesh is Meat indeed and my Blood is Drink indeed And he that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him John 6. And I 'll raise him up at the last day saith Christ. Therefore it 's no Corruption of Scripture nor Imposture to consider the Supper of the Lord in the Figure and in the Substance And as to these other Texts 1 Cor. 10. 15 16 17. Rev. 3. 20. Prov. 9. 4 5. John 6. Matt. 26. 29. Luke 22. 16 29 30. They i. e. the Quakers offer to the view of the World I cannot discern or imagine quoth the Rector to what End and Purpose this is done unless it be to amuse the Reader abuse the Scriptures or confute themselves Page 36 37. Reply It was to none of those Ends these Texts are offer'd but to shew our Consideration of the Lord's Supper in the Substance and Mystery thereof as Typified by the outward that there is a Spiritual Bread and Wine Spiritual Meat and Drink in Christ's Kingdom for the enlivened Soul to eat and drink of and live by which the Visible and Elementary did Typifie and Figure Prov. 9. 5. Wisdom saith Come eat of my Bread and drink of the Wine which I have mingled That this was

Spiritual Bread and Wine which Christ the Wisdom of God hath in his House for his Family I hope will not be denied Matth. 26. 29. But I say unto you I will not drink henceforth of this Fruit of the Vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom Luke 22. 16. For I say unto you I will not any more eat thereof i. e. of the Passover until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God And vers 18. I will not drink of the Fruit of the Vine until the Kingdom of God shall come And vers 29. I appoint unto you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed unto me Vers. 30. That ye may Eat and Drink at my Table in my Kingdom Now I would ask our Opposers if they think This was meant Litterally of Eating and Drinking outward Bread and Wine in the Kingdom of God and of Christ and at an outward Table therein If not Litterally meant then it must be Spiritually as Christ's Kingdom is a Spiritual Kingdom God's Kingdom stands in Power in Righteousness Joy and Peace in the Holy Ghost and not in outward Forms and Shadows and in this Kingdom is the Substance and End of all the Outward Shadows and Types thereof which being expressed under the same names the Types are is the more evidently to shew the End and Anti-type thereof in Christ the Life and Substance John 6. 51. I am the Living Bread which came down from Heaven if any Man eat of this Bread he shall live for ever saith Christ. And vers 54. Whoso eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood hath Eternal Life and I will raise him up at the Last Day See also vers 53 55 56 57 58. Did Christ mean Litterally herein No sure This Bread which came down from Heaven was not the outward Sign Type or Figure but the Spiritual Living Bread which giveth Life to the Soul and is Meat indeed unto it as his Blood is Drink indeed to all Spiritual Believers in him who are come to Eat and Drink of the same Spiritual Meat and Drink which Israel did Eat and Drink of as testified 1 Cor. 10. 3 4. That they Did all Eat the same Spiritual Meat and did all Drink the same Spiritual Drink For they drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them or went them and that Rock was Christ. And of these things the Apostle would not have his Brethren at Corinth Ignorant vers 1. and vers 15. I speak as to wise Men Judge ye what I say Vers. 16. The Cup of Blessing which we bless is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ The Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ Vers. 17. For we being many are one Bread and one Body For we are all partakers of that one Bread And vers 18. Behold Israel after the Flesh Are not they which eat of the Sacrifices partakers of the Altar From all which it is Evident the Apostles chief Aim and End was to bring those Believers to Life and Substance beyond and above the Shadows and Types that they might not be Inferiour to Israel after the Flesh in their eating and drinking of the same Spiritual Meat and Drink even of that Spiritual Rock which was Christ and be true partakers of him as the one Offering and Passover who was sacrificed for us see also 1 Cor. 5. 7 8. Rev. 3. 20. Behold I stand at the Door and knock if any Man hear my Voice and open the Door I will come in to him and will Sup with him and he with me This Christ the Faithful and true Witness declareth for the encouragement of all to open the Door of their Hearts to him that they may come into spiritual Communion with him and therein partake with him of his spiritual Supper unto which this Rector partly ascents in saying I make no doubt but all good Christians own Christ to be the Bread of Life and of Spiritual Communion with him in his holy Ordinances p. 37. And I say there 's no doubt but true Christians have Spiritual Communion with Christ in truly hearing and sincerely obeying him in those things which may be truly called his holy Ordinances and Institutions perpetuated by himself and attended by his divine Authority for the Sanction thereof but then Men should have a Care they do not impose humane Institutions and Traditions for Christ's and say they are His tho' without any express Warrant from him either Mediate or Immediate We know none among us that either slights vilifies or contemns any holy Institutions or Ordinances of Christ or any thing which God or Christ ever commanded whether now in force or not neither do I condemn any one who believe 't is their Duty to observe Baptism or that which is termed the Supper whilst they do it with a sincere Intention as Conscientious towards God therein they seeing no further nor yet designing to oppose the Discovery of an higher Dispensation and Ministry Altho' I heartily with as I hope that all such may see more clearly and beyond the Shadows to the Substance and Mystery of Christ revealed that the one saving Baptism and the one living Bread from Heaven they may all experience and truly partake of One thing by the way I would note what Construction our Adversary makes of 1 Cor. 11. 26. As often as ye Eat this Bread and Drink this Cup ye do shew the Lord's Death till he come This till he come is construed Till Christ's Outward Personal Coming visible in his Body of Flesh and Bones at the Resurrection to make our vile Bodies like his own Glorious Body p. 34 36. According to which Interpretation if we should read 1 Cor. 11. 26. As oft as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shew the Lord's Death till he come Personally and Visibly at the Resurrection It would import as if the Corinthians were to stay and live upon Earth in the Observation of the Outward Bread and Cup Eating and Drinking thereof until then i. e. until Christ's Last Coming at the Resurrection But how could that be But seeing Christ's Eating and Drinking at his Supper with his Disciples was Spiritually to be fulfilled in his Father's Kingdom and at his Table in his Kingdom as he promised according to Luke 22. 16 18 29 30. Matth. 26. 29. some may inquire when this should be fulfilled and when this Kingdom should come to Saints and true Believers in Christ Whither in this Life or in the last Day when Christ shall come in the Glory of his Father with his Angels to reward every Man according to his Works Matth. 16. 27. To which I Answer Christ saith in the very next verse Verily I say unto you there be some standing here which shall not tast of Death till they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom Matth. 16. 28. And the like in Mark 9. 1. Verily I say unto you that there be some of them that

Legal Dispensation had no Faith in the Messiah or no Title to Christianity or were in no Christian State as implied page 4. seeing they had the Word of Faith in them as well as the Law without them Deut. 30. 12 14. compared with Rom. 10. 8. And all Israel drank of the same Spiritual Rock which followed them or went with them and that Rock was Christ 1 Cor. 10. 4. How could they drink thereof if they had no Faith therein 2. Now how this Reason describes a Christian in the Affirmative He tells us To entitle a Man to be a Christian viz. He must necessarily believe Christ to be already come nay that particular and numerical Man Christ Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary and was of the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh to be the Christ of God that was promised to come in due time That this very Man was Crucified died and rose again from the Dead and is ascended c. citing 1 Tim. 3. 16. This Christ God-man as come and Crucified was that main Foundation of the Gospel and Christianity These were new Articles founded upon a new Dispensation without the Belief of which not to name some others which may be thought by some also necessary such as Baptism by Water and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by Bread and Wine a Man cannot be called a Christian page 4 5. If this Belief of the Blessed Man Christ Jesus his Birth Death Resurrection and Ascension into Glory as the Great Mystery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh c. 1 Tim. 3. 16. be necessary to entitle a Man to be a Christian then we the People called Quakers sincerely believe all this of Christ the true and promised Messiah we really have all this Faith of and concerning him consequently we must have a true Title and right Claim to Christianity by the same Proposition we really believe both of Christ and in him even in his Name and Power wherein we hold the main Foundation of the Gospel and Christianity and the Doctrine thereof But this Rector has omitted a Living Faith in Christ unto Repentance Sanctification Regeneration the New Birth Newness of Life Purity and Holiness without which no Man shall see God or be a Christian in Nature The more uncharitable and inconsistent then is this Rector in charging us with Venom giving our Doctrine the Character of The Venom of Quakerism and the Quakers indefinitely that of Deceitful Workers Transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ cannot be looked upon any otherwise at best than good moral Heathens and many of them short of that page 5. Hence observe how uncharitable and furious this Rector is and how he had need to be corrected for his Rashness herein though our Profession taking the words thereof in their common Acceptation must be granted at least to seem Orthodox as he grants both of our Paper observed by him i. e. The Christianity c. W. P' s Key John Crook ' s Principles c. But still in his uncharitable and sower Humour he will presume to be Judge over our Sincerity from my seeing cause to construe my Friend's words and Intentions as if we were hence to be mistrusted in our Orthodox Confessions whereupon he presently passes Judgment against the Quakers viz. That they have a nauseous Pill to give you but that it may not be distastful they gild it over as the Writers of Popery in the late K. J's Reign the other day did with more such bitter envious Stuff and false Judgment to which we shall never submit nor give away our Sincerity or Holy Profession of Christ and Christianity which he cannot deny to be Orthodox in it self Nor extinguish our Sincerity therein but only strive to cloud by Reproaches groundless Jealousies and Misconstructions and Perversions which is not as he would be done by to be sure But if a Belief of Christ already come born of the Virgin Mary being of the Seed of Abraham and that he was Crucified died rose again and ascended as the Scriptures declare be sufficient to entitle a Man to be a Christian How many do believe and confess thus much of Christ and yet Unsanctified Unregenerate Impenitent Ungodly and Unchristian in Spirit and Conversation So that they are not in the true living Faith in Christ Jesus though they have an Historical and Traditional one and perhaps may be Baptized or Sprinkled with Water too But of that the Rector here writes somewhat faintly and dubiously as thought by some also necessary i. e. to make a Man a Christian page 9. But afterward he is more positive in this Point That 't is necessary as the Sacred Ordinance of Christ and Saving p. 27. Necessary to enter Men into the Kingdom of God from John 3. 5. p. 28. for Remission and doing away Sins cleansing of our Souls that the Spirit doth Sanctifie the Waters in Baptism to the mystical Washing away of Sin p. 29 31 32. But as for Infants partaking thereof he evades proof It is not his business here to prove he saith p. 27. So that he both evades defending their own Practice and leaves People at an uncertainty of the Subjects of this ignorantly supposed Saving Soul cleansing and mystical washing Ordinance making use of the Anabaptists Arguments for Baptizing Believers with Water which is no proof for Rantism or Sprinkling upon Infants Thus he attempts to shew People the way or means of Regeneration and entering into the Kingdom of God and he lays the stress thereof upon the outward Baptism by Water and not upon the inward Baptism of the Spirit he has found out an easie way to make Christians and to get to Heaven at this rate His business here being to prove Whether outward Baptism by Water is the Sacred Ordinance of Christ as necessary to be believed and Saving or Inward Baptism i. e. the Washing or Cleansing of the Heart or an Inward Conversion to God p. 27. So that by this the Saving Baptism must be the one or the other he places it upon the outward Waters of Baptism as necessary to the cleansing of our Souls mystical Washing away of Sin p. 31 32. therefore not upon the Inward Baptism of the Spirit for that was not sufficient he saith p. 29. No What was it good for then He tells us The inward Baptism was but a necessary Qualification for the Reception of the outward Baptism by Water p. 29. So that the Water is exalted above the Spirit or the Spirit 's Baptism But how many Infants who are Sprinkled can they prove are thus first qualified by the Inward Baptism of the Spirit What confused and bewildred work do we meet withal from some angry Opposers Upon the whole the Man's Definition of a Christian is summed up in this viz. That the Washing of Regeneration by the Word of Life the Inward and Spiritual Baptism is not Saving or sufficient to make a true Christian but Water-Baptism and whether that must be of