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A65858	The contemned Quaker and his Christian religion defended against envy & forgery in answer to two abusive invective pamphlets, the one stiled Antichrist in spirit unmasked, the other Railings and slanders detected, promoted by some persons commonly called Anabaptists at Deptford in Kent who have unwarily begun the contest.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1919; ESTC R26354	39,076	98

I do not therefore conclude that the Divine Doctrin therein contain'd may be no means of our knowing God for in Christ's hand and by his opening it to us and our understandings therein it may be and is A Means of Divine knowledge to us Christ being the Way and the Means original of Divine and Saving-Knowledge Obj. against G. W. again viz. Who also affirmeth that Faith grounded on the Scriptures is but an empty implicit Faith and bespeaks such persons void of the knowledge of God and Christ and Salvation and that such Men walk by their own Fancies and Imaginations Quoting Christ ascended p. 11. Observ. This Baptist has again apparently miscited and wrong'd my Answer 't was none of my affirmation or words That Faith grounded on the Scripture is but an empty implicit Faith c. I affirm they are not my words but E. P.'s fallacious abuse put upon me The Case was this viz. John Newman in his Book stiled The Light within c. having affirm'd p. 45. That without the Scriptures to be the Rule we know not that there is any God or Christ or Salvation c. all Men are left in the dark and no man knoweth how to enjoy Life Eternal neither do we know what God counteth unclean and what holy without the Scriptures we know not any Promise c. It leaves men to walk by Fancy and Imaginations Thus far he My Answer was Poor Men You have shewn your selves sufficiently herein and what an empty implicit Faith you are in and how void both of the Knowledge of God Christ and Salvation you are and how yet in your sins having denied Christ and his Light within to be your Rule Way and Foundation as he is to his Followers And so you are walking by your Fancies and Imaginations who set the Scriptures in the place of Christ as your only and absolute Rule and Ground of your Faith and Knowledge c. So that I did not own nor grant that their Faith was really grounded on the Scriptures herein but on their own unscriptural Fancies and Imaginations vid. Christ ascend p. 12. contrary to Scripture-Testimony of Christ. And I further oppose their Ignorance of God and Christ thus viz. And then what a sad Sentence of no less than condemnation doth this pass upon all People and Nations who have not the Scriptures as being all void of knowledge that there is either God Christ Salvation Good or Evil without the Scriptures whereas there is a Living Evidence throughout the Creation or Works of God therein of the Eternal Power or Maker thereof See Ps. 19. Rom. 1. Job 12. and many do know and have known these things written of which concern Salvation by the Light of God and Christ in them that never could read nor had the Scriptures outwardly as those Gentiles which had not the Law yet did those things contained in it and shewed the Effects of the Law written in their Hearts Rom. 2. Tho' the Scriptures are profitable to the Man of God who hath them being led by his Spirit which opens them Christ ascend p. 11 12. And now E. P. to prove thy Brethren W. Allcot and H. Loader's false Charge That the Quakers contemn and vilifie the Holy Scriptures in their Epistles and thy own horrid Slanders also that they are great Enemies to and Contemners of Holy Scriptures p. 20. of thy Antichrist in Spirit Thou summest up thy Argument with divers If 's but assumest no Assumption pursuant to thy general Charge as in thy 33 and 34 Pages of thy Railings and Slanders detected thus viz. Now if the Scriptures be a dead carnal Letter Ink and Paper saith Parnel If they are the Precepts and Traditions of Men saith Naylor in his Love to the Lost. If they are no better than an old Almanack as Holbrow said Hick 's Dial. p. 29. If to say an Ass hath as much Authority essentially in himself to teach and rebuke as the Scriptures c. be not to Contemn and Vilifie them I am yet to seek what is Ans. The Assumption or Minor Proposition intended i. e. but the Quakers say all these of the Holy Scriptures is here wanting and the Argument is lame and fallacious as well as falsly stated also in the first Proposition being not in the terms of the Charge For 1 st The Charge is general against the Quakers That they are great Enemies to and Contemners of the Holy Scriptures yet the word Holy not mentioned in the particular Instances fallaciously alledged for proof though it be in the general Charge 2. If some of the Instances were true yet to charge them upon the People called Quakers in general is an absurd and unjust way of arguing a particulare ad universale and no better than to argue thus If Edw. Paye the Baptist has raked up and charged divers of Hicks's Lies and Forgeries upon the Quakers and added many more of his own to them then the Baptists are all Forgers But Edw. Paye hath so done is apparent Ergo They may justly deny the Major though the Assumption or Charge alone stands good being plentifully proved against E. Paye in particular 3. Neither are the particular Instances true in fact the Holy Scriptures are not a dead Letter in the Quakers esteem tho' none of us ascribe Holiness to Ink and Paper or the dead Characters but to the living Divine Precepts and Doctrine therein contained nor did we ever think the Holy Scriptures to be but the Precepts and Traditions of Men or much less no better than an Old Almanack as the People called Quakers are most unjustly accused by these Adversaries Antichrist in Spirit p. 18. And 't is far from J. N. or any of us either to say or think that an Ass hath as much Authority essentially in himself to teach and rebuke as the Holy Scriptures For shame E. P. retract and leave off such foul gross and horrid Lies and Reproaches against the People called Quakers To prove that we name or call the Holy Scriptures the Precepts and Traditions of Men charged against the Quakers in general Antichrist in Spirit p. 18. Thou E. P. hast repeated this again in thy Railings p. 33. and quotest James Nayler's Love to the Lost for it but not in what Page and therefore I have been at the pains to view over that Book to see if I could find any such words but find nothing like them but the contrary namely 1 st That the words of the Scripture were given forth from the Light which he calls the Eternal Light Love to the Lost p. 4 20 21. And that the Ministers of Christ who have the Word who are begotten by the Word through such came the Scriptures which came not by the Will of Man but by the Spirit and so are of no private Interpretation Love to the Lost p. 73. which Spirit is the Eternal Spirit the Spirit of Light and Truth p. 13 18. Thus J. N. All which is far enough from calling or

the highest Attainments of the Holy Spirit do but fit Men for Water-Baptism as if that were higher than those Attainments or the Spirit Inferior to the Element of Water 3. But in contradiction to themselves herein they tell us That Water-Baptism is the initiating and ingrafting Ordinance whereby the Penitent Believer puts on Christ p. 68. Obs. For which they quote and misapply Gal. 3.27 which shews That it is by Faith in Christ Jesus that they were Children of God being baptized into Christ v. 26 27. and Rom. 11.19 20 23. 4. That there is but one Baptism in a full and proper Sense and that is that of Water in which the Penitent Believer is Buried for which they unduly quote Coll. 2.12 Rom. 6.4 and on Eph. 4.5 say To be Baptized with Water is the one Baptism Pa. 66 67. Obs. This appears directly Popish Doctrine and accordingly held by the Rhemists contrary to the Protestants and wholy excludes Christ's Baptism by the Holy Spirit 5. 1 Pet. 3.21 Applyed to Water-Baptism as the Baptism that doth now save us the End whereof is the Answer of a good Conscience towards God p. 67. Obs. If Water-Baptism be the one-saving Baptism then out of the Baptist's-Church there is no Salvation This is not only Popish but contrary to that very Scripture 1 Pet. 3.2 that Saving Baptism being not the putting away the Filth of the Flesh c. 6. That our saying Water-Baptism was a Figure of the Spiritual is an apparent Falshood p. 68. Ob. No 't is an apparent Truth John's Baptism was a Figure of Christ's Saving Spiritual Baptism and Washing of Regeneration See Matth. 3.11 Mar. 1.8 Luke 3.16 Joh. 1.26 27. Tit. 3.5 6. 7. That Christ is not come because that Kingdom is not come that Christ speaks of I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the Vine 'till I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom Matt. 26.29 Luke 22.18 p. 73. compared with p. 74. In that Kingdom they neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they dye any more Luk. 20.35 36. Qu. How then shall they drink new Wine with Christ in that World to come and in that State wherein they shall be equal with the Angels of God in Heaven suppose ye And as neither can they dye any more so neither shall they Hunger nor Thirst any more Rev. 7.16 Isaiah 49.10 What occasion for New Wine then 8. That his Disciples upon Earth are to Break and Eat Bread and Drink of the Fruit of the Vine till he come to wit in a Personal Glorious and Visible manner Phil. 3 2● Who shall change our vile Bodies and make them like his own glorious Body at Christ's second personal coming visible in his Body of Flesh and Bones p. 73 74. Qu. And shall those glorious Bodies then have occasion to drink New Wine with Christ in his Father's Kingdom do you think or are you not rather too Carnal in your Expectations in this Matter whilst you mean literally and then do you not delay and put off the Spiritual Eating and Drinking with Christ Rev. 3.20 Luke 22.30 in his Spiritual Kingdom 9. No Christians can allow them i.e. the Quakers that Christ is come the second Time p. 74. Obs. Yes true Christians can allow it tho' these Baptists cannot wherein they contradict the true Believers Expectation and Experience of Salvation by Christ's coming Heb. 9.28 Tit. 2.13.14 10. That the Quakers say they are perfect viz. without Sin this is not true by the way but that to be so is both required of us in this Life and attainable in Christ Jesus but Christians expect compleat Perfection that is a living without Sin as 't is explain'd by E. P. Rail and Slan p. 38. when they come to glory on the other side of the Grave c. p. 51. Qu. When do these Men expect to be made clean in the Grave or at their expected Resurrection unto Glory If not until they are in their Graves they dye in their Sins and then whither Christ is gone they cannot come John 8.21 If not until such their expected Resurrection what shall become of their Sins inherent Pollutions and Defilement between their Death and Resurrection A few more of their Unsound and Antichristian Doctrines about Inspiration Christ within his Kingdom and Light within 1. That if the Quakers by their immediate Inspirations do not resolve what those many other things were that Jesus did that are not written Joh. 21.25 and what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground Joh. 8.6 8. then their boasting of immediate Inspiration is to be condemned to perpetual Silence and shame to cover their Faces Antichrist in Spirit p. 15 16. Contradiction Things that are Secret and not written not at all belonging to us but to the Lord as in E. P. Rail and Slan p. 20. Obs. There they have imposed such a Proof of immediate Inspiration upon us as doth not at all belong to them if things not written do not all belong to them 2. On Matth. 24.26 they say 'T is more than probable that Christ pointed at this Generation of Impostors the Quakers who say Behold he Christ is within thee c. p. 25. Obs. Antichristian Doctrine contrary to Christ and his Apostle's Doctrine Joh. 17.23 2 Cor. 13.5 Coll. 1.27 Rom. 10.6 7 8. 3. That those that are in the Possession of that Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of Christ neither Marry nor are given in Marriage c. but the Quakers do Marry ergo not in possession of that Kingdom p. 51 52. Obs. Marriage in the Lord hinders not his People from the Enjoyment of Christ's Kingdom therefore the first Proposition and Conclusion of this Argument is contrary to plain Scripture Coll. 1.13 Rev. 1.9 Matt. 16.28 Mar. 9.1 Luk. 9.27 4. That the Disciples did not expect this Christ to come into them Namely This Christ the Prophet whom ye shall hear in all things Deut. 18.15 Acts 3.22 He of whom God the Father from Heaven testified Matt. 17 5. This is my beloved Son hear ye him This Christ that was Crucified and Rose from the Dead Luke 24.39 This is he that told Mary Joh. 20.19 I go to my Father and your Father to my God and your God Hereupon these Baptists affirm as before the Disciples did not exp●ct this Christ to come into them p. 52 53. Qu. What Christ then Is there two Christs See 1 Cor. 8.6 Is not this Antichristian Doctrine contrary to Christ's own express Testimony Joh. 14.20.17.23 And to these Baptists own Confession on 2 Cor. 13.5 c. 5.17 1 Cor. 6.19 Coll. 1.27 Ro. 8.9 Eph. 2.22 p. 22 23. 5. Turn to the Light within saith the Quaker This these Baptists have in contempt repeated seven times over in less than three Pages and all under the Title of Quakerism a great Delusion to prove that the Quakers disown the Doctrine taught by Christ and his Apostles and that they oppose the Teachings of Christ's Prophetical office p. 54 55 56. Obs. Here they have opposed and contemned the Doctrine of God's Prophets Christ and his Apostles who were all for and preached the Light within see Ps. 56.13 Isa. 2.5 Jo. 12.36 1 Jo. 1.7 and 2.10 Acts 26.18 and how can the Light of Christ within either oppose his Doctrine Ministry or Offices And 't is no other Light we exhort People to turn to The Lord open these Men's Eyes that they may come out of Darkness which they cannot do unless they turn to the Light within FINIS Charg 1. Answer Answ. Observ. * Where proves he these to be the Quakers words from which he himself varies p. 11. viz. That all things necessary may be taught without them and what less have Baptists heretofore confessed by approving Samuel How 's Sermon for The Sufficiency of the Spirit 's Teaching printed 1655. A Gross Lye Answ. Answ. Answ. Observ. * This is a gross Forgery Observ. Observ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. * Contrary to Christ's own Testimony Matt. 16.28 Mark 9.1 Luke 9.27