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The Christian doctrin [sic] and society of the people called Quakers; cleared from the reproach of the late division of a few in some part of America, as not being justly chargeable upon the body of the said people there or elsewhere.
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Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
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1693
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Wing W1905; ESTC R233931
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THE Christian Doctrin AND SOCIETY OF THE People called Quakers Cleared from The Reproach of the late Division of a few in some Part of America as not being justly chargeable upon the Body of the said People there or elsewhere Now I beseech you Brethren mark them diligently which cause Division and Offences contrary to the Doctrin which ye have learned and avoid them Rom. 16.17 Let all Bitterness and Wrath and Anger and Clamour and Evil-speaking be put away from you with all Malice And be ye kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you Ephes 4.31 32. LONDON Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-yard in Lombard-street 1693. WHereas divers Accounts have been lately publish'd in Print of some late Division and Disputes between some Persons under the Name of Quakers in Pensilvania about several fundamental Doctrins of the Christian Faith as is pretended by one Party which being particularly mentioned and thereupon occasion very unduly taken by our Adversaries to reproach both the Christian Ministry and whole Body of the People commonly called Quakers and their Holy and Christian Profession both in England and elsewhere tho' no ways concerned in the said Division or Matters charged but rather grieved and troubled at it and at the indiscreet and reproachful management thereof in Print to the amusing and troubling the World therewith and giving occasion to the Loose Ignorant and Prophane to slight and contemn the Truth and the Interest of the tender Religion of our Lord Jesus Christ We are therefore tenderly concerned for Truth 's sake in behalf of the said People as to the Body of them and for all of them who are sincere to God and faithful to their Christian Principle and Profession to use our Just Endeavours to remove the Reproach and all causeless Jealousies concerning us touching those Doctrins of Christianity or any of them pretended or supposed to be in question in the said Division in Relation whereunto We do in the fear of God and in simplicity and plainness of his Truth receiv'd solemnly and sincerely declare what our Christian Belief and Profession has been and still is in respect to Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God his Suffering Death Resurrection Glory Light Power Great Day of Judgment c. We sincerely profess Faith in God by his only begotten Son Jesus Christ as being our Light and Life our only way to the Father and also our only Mediator and Advocate with the Father a a Heb. 12.2 1 Pet. 1.21 Joh. 14.6 1 Tim. 2.5 That God created all things he made the Worlds by his Son Jesus Christ he being that powerful and living Word of God by whom all things were made b And that the Father the Word and the holy Spirit are one in divine Being inseparable one true living and eternal God blessed for ever c b Ephes 3.9 Joh. 1.1 2 3. Heb. 1.2 c 1 Joh. 5 7. Yet that this Word or Son of God in the fulness of time took Flesh became perfect Man according to the Flesh descended and came of the Seed of Abraham and David d but was miraculously conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary And also further declared powerfully to be the Son of God according to the Spirit of Sanctification by the Resurrection from the Dead d Rom. 1.3.4 e Mat. 1.23 f Rom. 1.3 4. That in the Word or Son of God was Life and the same Life was the Light of Men and that he was that true Light which enlightens every Man coming into the World g And therefore that Men are to believe in the Light that they may become Children of the Light h Hereby we believe in Christ the Son of God as he is the Light and Life within us and wherein we must needs have sincere respect and honour to and belief in Christ as in his own unapproachable and incomprehensible Glory and Fulness i as he is the Fountain of Life and Light and Giver thereof unto us Christ as in himself and as in us being not divided And that as Man Christ dyed for our Sins rose again and was received up into Glory in the Heavens k He having in his dying for all been that one great universal Offering and Sacrifice for Peace Attonement and Reconciliation between God and Man l and he is the Propitiation not for our Sins only but for the Sins of the whole World m We were reconcied by his Death but saved by his Life g Joh. 1.4.9 h Joh. 12.36 Isa 2.5 i Tim. 6.16 k 1 Pet. 3.18 1 Tim. 3.16 Mat. 19.28 and 25.31 Luk. 9.26 and 24.26 l Rom. 5.10 11. Heb. 2.17 18. Ephes 2.16 17. Col. 1.20 21 22. m 1 Joh. 2.2 2 Cor. 5.14 15. Heb. 2.9 That Jesus Christ who sitteth at the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens yet is he our King High Priest and Prophet n in his Church a Minister of the Sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not Man o He is Intercessor and Advocate with the Father in Heaven and there appearing in the Presence of God for us p being touched with the feeling of our Infirmities Sufferings and Sorrows And also by his Spirit in our Hearts he maketh Intercession according to the Will of God crying Abba Father q n Zech. 9.9 Luk. 19.38 Joh. 12.15 Heb. 3.1.6 Deut. 18.15 18. Act. 3.22 and 7.37 o Heb. 8.1 2. p Heb. 7.25 Heb. 9.24 q Rom. 8.26 27 34. Gal. 4.6 For any whom God hath gifted r and called sincerely to Preach Faith in the same Christ both as within and without us cannot be to Preach two Christs but one and the same Lord Jesus Christ s having respect to those degrees of our spiritual knowledge of Christ Jesus in us t and to his own unspeakable fulness and glory u as in himself in his own intire being wherein Christ himself and the least measure of his Light or Life as in us or in Mankind are not divided nor separable no more than the Sun is from its light And as he ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill all things x his fulness cannot be comprehended or contained in any finite Creature y but in some measure known and experienced in us as we are capable to receive the same as of his fulness we have received Grace for Grace Christ our Mediator received the Spirit not by measure z but in fulness but to every one of us is given Grace according to the Measure of his Gift a r Ephes 3.7 1 Pet. 4.10 s 1 Cor. 8.6 ch 15.3 8. t Joh. 15.26 and ch 16.13 14 15. u Joh. 1.16 x Ephes 4.10 y Coloss 1.19 2.9 z Joh. 3.34 a Ephes 4.7 That the Gospel of the Grace of God should be preached in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost b being one c in Power Wisdom and Goodness and indivisible or not to be divided in the great Work of Man's Salvation