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faith_n	justification_n	justify_v	sanctification_n	6,333	5	10.3320	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35136	Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7217; ESTC R204876	16,180	24

its doing to commend it but God's love and bounty in Christ the Light to receive it and yet Holiness is its delight and he can no more live out of it than the fish upon the dry land We believe that this Faith keeps the mind pure and the heart clean through the sprinkling of the heart from an evil conscience by the Blood of Jesus which remits the Sin and justifies the Soul through the vertue of this Blood received into the heart by this living Faith which receives all its power and vertue from Christ in whom it abides as its root and object whereby Justification is witnessed from Sin not in Sin Rom. 6. 22. But now being made free from Sin and become servants unto God you have your fruits unto Holiness and the end Everlasting Life We believe that Justification and Sanctification are distinguished but not divided for as he that sanctifieth and justifieth is one so do these go together and when the Soul hath the greatest sence of Justification upon it through the vertue of the Blood of Jesus by the living Faith then is it most in love with Holiness and at the greatest distance from Sin and Evil and whenever there is a failing in Sanctification there is also some eclipse of Justification in the eye of the Soul until Faith hath recovered its strength again which it lost by Sin 's prevailing For as the furthest and clearest sight is in the brightest day so is it with the Soul when it is most in the brightness and beauty of Holiness its Justification appears most glorious and its Union and Communion most sweet and lasting and so like two twins as they are much of an age so they are like one to the other and what God hath joyned together let no man put assunder We also by this Light believe that acceptance with the Father is only in Christ and by his Righteousness made ours or imputed unto us not by the creaturely skil but by the applicatory act of God's gift of Grace whereby the soul feels the difference between self-applying by its own Faith and God applying by his Spirit and so making Christ unto the Soul Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption So that we believe and are sure that there is a great difference between Imputation as it is the act of man's spirit and as it is the act of free Grace without man's forcing And so we distinguish between Imagination and Imputation between reckoning or imputing that is real and reckoning or imputation that is not real but a fiction and imagination in the creaturely will and power And because we are against the latter we are clamoured upon as if we denied the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness when it is only unto those that are not made righteous by it to walk as he also walked For as the Scripture saith Is it not he that saith he is righteous by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness but he that doth Righteousness is righteous as Christ is righteous 1 Joh. 3. 7. he that believes otherwise is deceived And yet it is not Acts of Righteousness as done by us nor as inherent in us as acts by which we are accepted of God and justified before him but by Christ the Author and Worker of those acts in us and for us whereby we know that we are in him and he in us and we hold him as our Head into whom all things are gathered together in one even in him We further believe that God is only to be worshipped and not any likeness that man makes unto himself of God from any view sight or knowledge that he hath had of him but in every act and service man is to know what substantially as well as whom speculatively or notionally he worshippeth as it is written Joh. 4. 22. Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for Salvation is of the Jews And he that thus worships the Father honours the Son by the same Spirit which is one with the Father and the Son in which Spirit only God is worshipped according to the form of its own choosing and manifesting of it self in and by according unto the good pleasure of the Father who is a Spirit and limits man unto the Spirit 's form but allows not man to limit the Spirit unto his form though it be not of his inventing originally but of the Father yet man must no more limit God unto it than he could command God to appear in it at first For as he chose it himself so he hath reserved liberty to leave it at his pleasure who works all things after the counsel of his own Will which he hath purposed in himself that the gift of the knowledge of the Mystery of his Will might for ever be acknowledged to be of his Grace and from the Riches of the Glory thereof according to Ephes 1. and man be bound but God free man bound to wait in the Light for God's Movings but God free to move in whom to what and when he pleaseth then man is to go when he saith go and come when he saith come and such Servants do serve him and then there is no more curse as in the dayes of will-worship and voluntary humility but the Throne of God and of the Lamb Col. 2. 18 23. Rev. 22. 3 4. and they shall see his Face and his Name shall be on their foreheads We believe also that this Worship is spiritual and not carnal in all its Parts and Ordinances and not to be imposed by any outward force but performed by the inward leadings of God's Spirit according as the holy men of God were led and guided in the dayes past who gave forth the Scriptures all impositions of Worship outward being only enjoyned under the first Covenant that made nothing perfect until the time of Reformation spoken of Heb. 9. 10. But Christ being come there is an end as well of such Impositions as of the Meats and Drinks and divers Baptisms and carnal Ordinances they being all but temporary and in order unto an end but all to vail to Christ the sum and substance of all the first pointed at by all and the last ending of all the Amen And he that thus worships God in Christ his Ordinances are spiritual and not carnal and his Faith carries him beyond his Works with righteous Abel and preserves him that he is not drowned in the form like Cain neither falls he short of the Glory of God nor of his assurance of Acceptance with him We believe there is one Baptism necessary unto Salvation Ephes 4. 5. One Lord one Faith one Baptism And this Baptism is Spiritual of which John's Water was but a figure Joh. 1. 31. That he should be made manifest to Israel therefore am I come baptizing with Water saith John and 1 Pet. 3. 21. The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good

Truth 's Principles OR Those Things about DOCTRINE and WORSHIP which are most surely believed and received amongst the People of GOD called QUAKERS VIZ. Concerning the Man CHRIST his Sufferings Death Resurrection Faith in his Blood the imputation of his Righteousness Sanctification Justification c. Written to stop the mouth of Clamour and to inform all who desire to know the Truth as it is in Jesus By the Servant of the Lord John Crook To which is added Somewhat Concerning the Difference between the Perswasions of REASON and the Perswasions of FAITH LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. TRUTH' 's PRINCIPLES OR Those things about Doctrine and Worship which are most surely believed and received amongst the People of God called QUAKERS MAny are the Reports that are abroad concerning this People not only as to their Practices and Deportments but also as to their Doctrines and Beliefs The former time having in a great measure resolved and worn out as being the refuge of lyes for the ignorant and unrighteous to fly unto but that stormy and wintry appearance is well nigh over and gone because the Sun is so far risen and the true Light so shineth that most begin to see that those reports were but lyes and scandals raised as Fig-leaves to cover the nakedness of other Professions that begun so manifestly to appear through the Light that shined in these Peoples Lives and Conversations But though the first be gone yet the latter still sticks with many as not knowing what they hold as to Doctrine some saying they deny the Scripture and the Resurrection of the body and all Ordinances with the Man Christ and his Death and Sufferings and imputation of his Righteousness and faith in his Blood c. Wherefore for the satisfaction of all that would willingly be resolved and know the Truth as it is in Jesus I have written this short Account of their Faith and Belief and if it were possible to stop the mouth of clamorous tongues before Sentence be given against them by some signal stroke of the Lord from Heaven which he will undoubtedly in his appointed time reveal and make manifest to the trembling of all hearts concerned therein and tingling of all ears that shall hear thereof when it shall be said to them The holy shall be holy still and be that is filthy let him be filthy still Rev. 22. 11. We believe that the God of all Grace hath given a measure of Grace or some manifestation of his Spirit and Light thereof unto all men according unto these Scriptures John 1. 9. Tit. 2. 11. 1 Cor. 12. 7. Nehem. 9. 20. and experiences of all men who at some time or other do feel something in their Hearts and Consciences that doth lust against the flesh and the flesh against it and that these two are contrary the one to the other one lusting after evil which is evil and the other after good which is good the one carnal the other spiritual the one from the Earth the other from Heaven Gal. 5. 16 17. We believe By this Gift Grace and Inspiration of the Almighty man only can come to know the true God truly What he is and how he works in the Hearts and Consciences of People to regenerate them and make them bear his Image according unto 1 Cor. 1. 19 20 21. Luke 10. 21. and experiences of all that ever were regenerate and born again We believe that all the Errors and mistakes about God and the things relating to his Kingdom sprang and arose from mens wandring from this Gift of God into their own Imaginations whereby though they thought themselves wise yet they became fools and erred their foolish hearts being darkned according to Rom. 1. not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God as it is written Mat. 22. 29. We believe and know that this Gift and Grace of God appears in and unto all men that all may be without excuse accusing for the evil and excusing for the good according to Rom. 2. 15 16. shewing unto man what is good and reproving of him in his own Conscience for the evil whether thoughts words or deeds and that this reproof of Instruction is the way of Life Prov. 6. 23. We believe that as the true God and Eternal Life is known only by the light of this Gift and Grace according unto the Scriptures from which Light and Spirit of God came the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament as it is written 2 Pet. 1. 21. so can they only be read as truly to be believed fulfilled and practised in the Light and Power of the same and all that are out of this Spirit must needs be ignorant and unlearned in the Apostle's sense who wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction as it is written for Peter and John were unlearned men outwardly not knowing letters but inwardly read in the knowledge of this Light and Spirit of God and wrested not the SCRIPTURES Acts 4. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 16. We believe according to the Scriptures 2 Cor. 4. 3. that wheresoever the Power of God is not known within there the Gospel is hid and unknown unto them that are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them and God should heal them because it is only by the Light of Christ the Power of God that the Creature comes truly to see himself in his lost and undone estate from which sight ariseth the true sence in the heart of the Creature that makes him cry out of his wretchedness by reason of the body of sin and death which necessitates him to look out for a Saviour whom God manifesteth in and by the same Light that shines in the heart on purpose to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ God's Image whereby God healeth the soul And therefore doth the Devil the god of the world strive so much by the gifts of the pleasures profits vanities and lusts that are in the world which he presenteth to men and women now as he did to Christ in the dayes of his flesh when he shewed to him all the world with its glory which glory is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life what-ever may make this life happy as it were in the things that may pride it or lift it up to sit as Queen And as men and women take and receive these gifts from the god of this world their minds are blinded because they believe not in the Light which sheweth them the vanities of all the gifts of the god of this world which gifts the Devil knows if they be received will so blind the minds of them that receive them that they will not come to be sensible in the true Light of their lost conditions so as to cry unto God