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A29395	Some reasons why Robert Bridgman, and his wife, and some others in Hvntington-shire, have left the society of the people called Quakers, and have join'd in communion with the Church of England and some passages contained in a letter of George Whitehead to R.J., and R. Bridgman's reply to the same / by Robert Bridgman.	Bridgman, Robert.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1700 (1700)	Wing B4494; ESTC R18987	9,724	25

the Insinuations notwithstanding and Reproaches of our Adversaries An instance of which I think sit here to subjoyn not being likely to obtain any offer of Justice from the Person concerned Upon my Wife and Children's receiving Baptism in the Church of England George Whitehead writes a Letter of Condolence to my Wife's Father wherein he insinuates after this manner Dear Brother I have been often sensible of thy Exercise and Affection occasioned by the miserable Backsliding of such near Relations who have so long professed the blessed Truth among us The blessed Truth which we have received from the Beginning in Life and Power will stand for ever and out-live all its Adversaries and they who are approved and stand faithful therein shall the more be manifest and shine when Shame and Confusion shall cover the Rebellious who reproach God's Heritage and People to excuse their own Revolting and Looseness of Spirit The Letter in which these Passages are falling providentially into my Hand I wrote to Geo. Whitehead as is hereafter exprest But being in London a considerable time and having no prospect of having such a Meeting as I desir'd think fit to expose it as matter of Caution to himself and such others as may be under temptation to practise the like to disparage and discourage with such Blasts of Reviling Hunt the 16th April 1700. George Whitehead In these Passages which I transcribed to him are contained a severe Charge by way of Insinuation against my self and my Wife who are the near Relations mentioned in that Letter And we being such had you proved your Charge the unworthiness of your Disposition notwithstanding hath sufficiently appeared in offering so to aggravate and by consequence to set such near Relations at too great a Distance But whereas your Charge and Insinuations remain unproved by you they ought in Justice to be returned upon you as a Slander If you think you can make Proof of these miserable yea and I may add detestable things upon us we desire you would do it and that you may be the more manifest and shine we care not how publickly you do it Your writing in such a manner to my Father without any Premonition to us had we been really guilty looks not only like a Deed of Darkness but we being innocent too much intitles you to the Character of those mentioned in the 11th Psalm Who bend the Bow and make ready their Arrow upon the String that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart Had not your Name and Pretences been what they are we should have endeavoured to have overlook'd your Reproach as we have done a great deal from others of a meaner Rank among you cast upon us as we verily believe for our open Profession of the Christian Faith and practising the Institutions of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in ways most agreeable to our Judgment upon a serious deliberate and impartial Enquiry and Consideration and this we take to be the Reason of your Displeasure knowing very well how you have slighted opposed and rejected those great and necessary Truths and proper means of Christian Fellowship and Communion appointed we believe for that end by our Lord Jesus Christ and practised by his holy Apostles and Disciples in the first and purest Ages of Christianity And you in particular bearing such a Name and Sway amongst so many deluded though many of them I believe well-meaning People and so generally passing under the Character of an honourable and worthy Minister of Christ 't is therefore highly necessary to take some Notice of your practice And I do hereby acquaint you that my Occasions calling me to London in a little time I shall expect you will give me a Meeting before some sober and judicious Persons either to endeavour the Proof of your Charge or to retract what you have in such manner insinuated against us If you think fit to decline to give me such a Meeting I shall have reason to take it as a sufficient demonstration that Shame and Confusion is over you in that very manner and for the very same Cause suggested against us in your Letter Thus much at present from your abused Friend and Kinsman R. 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Heavens and he being now in Heaven in his Body out of the reach of our Bodily Senses One end of the Supper is to Receive and Establish the Faith of his Existence and assurance of his coming in his Body to Judge us and those Arguments of Dr. Cranmer and Ridley which George Whitehead recites were at that time advanced to oppose the Erroneous Conceit of Transubstantiation See the Book of Martyrs page 74. Where t is said that to believe the Wafer and Wine to be Transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ Argument the second it varieth from the Articles of Faith He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father from whence and not from any other place saith St. Augustin he shall come to judge both the quick and the dead Thirdly It destroyeth and taketh away the Institution of the Lord's Supper which was commanded only to be used and continued until the Lord Himself should come if therefore He be now really present in the Body of his Flesh then must the Supper cease For a Remembrance is not of a thing present but of a thing past and absent and there is a difference between Remembrance and Presence and as one of the Fathers saith a Figure is in vain where the thing figured is present Here you see the Fathers and Martyrs intended one thing and George Whitehead wou'd make them to intend another the Supper is a Figure and Sign not only of the Inward and Spiritual Grace received by the Faithful in their partaking of it but also of the Body of Christ now absent in Heaven the Faith of which being lost among the Quakers and so much denyed and opposed by their obstinate pervertion the reason of the Institution appears the more necessary and the frequent and due practice of it appears the more seasonable and 't is to be hoped that these poor Elements as they are pleased to call them with the Blessing of God at the Administration and Reception of them will prove two such Pillars and Supports of the Christian Faith and Experience that the Combination of Hell shall not prevail tho her Gates many ways are set open to furnish the Army of Abaddon 'T is a specious pretence the Quakers have made to the Virtue and Efficacy of the Inward Principle as having therein an Art of Extraction by which they perform as by one single Still all that can be proposed from the variety in a Laboratory This very Comparison and Illustration I heard from William Penn in a publick Meeting at Grace-Church-Street and as much he delivers in his Primitive Christianity where he Rants at a very unreasonable rate and as much disparages the Reputation of their Principle by the extravagancy of his Notion as George Whitehead has done by the Irregularity of his practice I am sure no Principle of Truth ever taught William Penn to advance such a Notion of the Composition of Man as he delivers in p. 71. of his Primitive Christianity Man says he as I said just now is a Composition of both Worlds his Body is of this his Soul of the other World by the Body the Soul looks into and beholds this World and by the World it beholds God the World that is without End So that the World without End and God are with him Terms Synonimous and of this endless World is with him a part of Man's Composition his Soul is of its Essence and beholds its being a kin to God not only by a Relation but in Substance And in his Book called Judas and the Jews p. 130. he hath the following Words The new despised flock of God shall rest with him in that World which never had beginning and is without end thus he gives us a Description of God and of the Soul of Man its being a part of him And thus after all the Shuffling and Cutting about the Soul and Soul of the Soul 't is easie to see how naturally William Penn jumps in with George Fox in his Notion of the Soul so fully exposed and explained by George Keith in his fourth Narrative p. 61 62 63 64 65 66 67. And as in this his Book entituled Primitive Christianity he defines the Soul to be part of God so in his Book entituled The Invalidit● of John Faldo p. 365. he defines the Nature of the Body and opposes the conclusion of his Opponent who speaking of the Resurrection of the Body says it shall have the same Matter tho' not the same Grossness it shall have the same Essential Form tho not the same Accidents William Penn's Answer will not allow that he ever read in Scripture any thing favourably towards such a Conclusion His words are I never read yet of a Body having the same Matter and not the same Grossness the same Substance and Essence and not the same Accidents by which account we must believe that either William Penn never read the Scripture or that he believes the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Bodies of those that arose after his Resurrection were changed in Substance For according to him if they had the same Substance they must also retain the same Grossness and Accidents and consequently that the Body of our Lord Jesus now in Heaven is a gross and mortal Body if they believe he has the same Body now which he had upon the Earth And yet notwithstanding this sort of Reasoning the Quakers Objections and constant Clamour against all sorts of Christians has been to insinuate the Carnality of their Notions And thus do they raise such a dust of Confusion by their Doctrines and Distinctions that many poor People are led entangled in a Mist of thick Darkness I could give a large and particular Relation of sundry Conferences I have had with several of Note among them appointed to hear and examine my Reasons for declining their Meetings from whom I cou'd never yet obtain any plain and positive Answer to this necessary and seasonable Question Whether our Lord Jesus Christ is now in Heaven above or without us in the true and intire Nature of Man glorified the same for Substance which he had on Earth and forever to come united with the Godhead But finding this Doctrine so fully and so safely expressed in the Articles of the Church of England as also those other necessary and essential Principles of the Christian Religion inclined me to make a farther Search into the Matter and Manner of her Publick Worship which appearing to me so sound and instructive I could not in Conscience delay my adventuring to make some Approaches towards her Communion And through a merciful Providence it has pleased Almighty God so to influence and to bless due means of Instruction that my dear Wife with several of our Neighbours who were also in Communion with the People called Quakers are become religiously affected with the Publick Worship and I hope the Lord will preserve us in the Sincerity of our Intentions