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A43115	The Quaker converted; or the experimental knowledg of Jesus Christ crucified, in opposition to the principles of the Quakers, declared in a narrative of the conversion of one in Hartfordshire, who was for some years of their faith and principle, and inclined unto them. The manner how he was wrought off from them by the Lord. And several dealings of Christ with his spirit afterwards. With some things annexed for detection of their errors and delusions, and prevention of the growth thereof. Written by himself in his own words and phrases. Likewise an epistle dedicatory by W. Haworth, minister of the gospel at Hartford.	Dimsdale, William.; Haworth, William.	1690 (1690)	Wing H1196A; ESTC R43046	28,241	35

Satisfaction from Rom. 6. most eminent for this thing By which thing I was pretty easily turned from this thing but in my Search met with that Passage Rom. 3.25 Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past From whence I did apprehend that Christ died for the Remission of my Sins which I had committed before He did manifest his Love to me but afterwards I was to work for Life and for Salvation and to keep all his Commandments or else Hell would be my Portion And being taken in the same Snare of Sin as I was before Convictions grew Strong upon me my Burthen grew heavy upon me Insomuch that I did say at length Christ was of no Advantage of no prosit to me if he had never died it had been as well with me Under which troubles I was a great while until the Lord gave me light into two Scriptures which did in some measure relieve me which are these Rom. 10.9 That If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thy Heart that God hath raised Him from the Dead thou shalt be saved Heb. 10.14 For by one Offering He hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified And being able to see a Sanctification by being justified by the Death of Christ and viewing the Word ever I had much relief yet was I not at quiet having not settlement of Spirit but had Reasonings lay in the Bottom of my Heart in this manner If I might not go on in Sin and when I did not go on in Sin my Works did not make any thing for my Justification for I was Justified without them then what use were they for or for what end And the Lord gave me light into Four Things which did greatly settle me which are these First It was for the Glory of God in my Generation and for the Honour and Praise of his Name which hath begotten a lively Hope in me through Jesus Christ Secondly To manifest my Love to Jesus Christ which gave his Life a Ransom for me For how should I make it appear that I love Him but by keeping his Commandments Thirdly To convince the World of Sin by my refraining from that which is evil Fourthly It is my Duty as I am a Son to God in Jesus Christ to keep his Commandments and to obey and do his Will from whence I had settlement in my Spirit having Joy and Peace with God through Jesus Christ seeing a Beauty in Death now more than in Life often-times because then I should be freed from the Corruption of my Flesh and be at rest with the Lord. It being near Eighteen Months since I had the view of the Love of God in Jesus Christ After which time I was desirous to have some Discourse with some that I judged honest Men that I might see whether there was a Difference between them and me and accordingly had retaining to my self most part of my Experiences After which I returned for the most part to my former Life keeping little Company yet aiming to grow in the knowledg of the Mysteries of God in Jesus Christ Having after this manner been carried on by the Will of God having known two Faiths two Joys two Peaces and two sorts of Hope perhaps it may be thought requisite to speak something as touching the difference between them For satisfaction therefore I will insert some few things by way of Question and Answer Quest Was that Light by which I was convinced of Sin and by Obedience thereunto thought I should be brought into the Image of Christ and in that Righteousness be accepted with God and delivered from the Wrath to come Was it the Light of the Spirit of Christ Yea or Nay Answ Nay if I may judg of the Tree by the Fruit. Quest What Light is it then Answ The same with that which the Heathens had by Nature Sixteen Hundred Years since mentioned Rom. 2.14 Quest How know I that since they lived so many Years before my time Answ Because it chiesty pointed unto the same things which are recorded that they did namely the things contained in the Law Quest What things did I see or what things did I apprehend by that Light which now I see are false things Answ Three things I shall Name at the present First I did apprehend by the Light within that the Motions the Desires which arose in me to Evil were no Sin if I did not consent to Act according to them Secondly That the Doctrine of Christ making Satisfaction for all my Sins was a Doctrine tending to Loosness Thirdly I thought by the Righteousness in which I lived wrought in me by the Light which I thought was Christ himself I then Judged I should be saved at the Day of Judgment Quest What do I now apprehend by the Light of the Spirit which is now in me as concerning the First of these Three Answ I apprehend that every Motion and Desire arising in me to Evil tho not consented to nor put into Action is a Sin against God because it doth spring from the Corruption of Mine own Flesh and from the Root of Bitterness dwelling in this Body wherefore if this Body be mine then is that which dwelleth in it mine Quest What do I apprehend concerning the Second Answ To this I say Far be it from me that I should say That Christ being offered once for all should be a thing tending to Looseness having found by Experience Faith in this Doctrine is the only Spring from whence true Christian-Works do flow For so soon as ever the Lord gave me light into that Doctrine and seeing a Glorious view of Christ that very moment was my Soul drawn out in Love to serve the Lord and to keep his Commandments From whence my Faith is That whoever counteth it a Doctrine tending to that purpose they never truly knew the Want of a Saviour For how irrational a thing would it be if I was a Slave in Turkey or in some other barbarous Nation out of which Servile Work I could by no means nor art deliver my Self and in the midst of my Bondage a Nobleman of mine own Countrey of his own Free and Voluntary will ransom'd me home would it not engage my Soul to love the Man that redeemed me out of Bondage much more being delivered by Faith out of Bondage and Slavery from the Devil And how should we manifest our love to Christ but by keeping his Commandments Quest What do I apprehend as to the Third thing Answ If I had never known another Righteousness than that which I attained unto or could attain unto by that Light and Power which worked in me before Conversion I must have expected my Portion in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone to be tormented Day and Night for ever For in the greatest of my Purity and the highest Degree of Perfection there were

O that the Gospel were studied by us and preached by us more These things that follow have established me in the Preaching of it 1. That the Parity and Holiness of God's Majesty is such that nothing is accepted of him but what is every Way perfect and compleat We are very prone to measure God by the rule of our own Imagination and to think that what appears to be Righteousness with us is so with Him Whereas we are to conceive of God according as the Scriptures set Him forth to us and to bring our Righteousness to the Bar of his Tribunal and see whether it will bear the Tryal see whether it will hold out to justify in his sight when as Job 5.15 The Heavens are not clean in his sight Job 4.18 He chargeth his Angels with Folly which is too little to speak of the bad Angels 2. None of the Sons of Men since Adam's Fall that was no more than Man hath ever brought neither can any of them bring this perfect and compleat Righteousness to God Look to the best Men that ever were sanctified and that eminently by the Holy Ghost yea some of the Prophets Patriarchs and Penmen of the Holy Scriptures see what they say of themselves and what is said of them Abraham had Righteousness he had Works yet Rom. 4.2 these were not to be gloried in before God only in the sight of Men David Psal 143.2 prayeth to God in this manner Enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight c. Therefore Psal 32.1 he placeth the Blessedness of Man in the Forgiveness of Sins Blessed is he whose Sin is covered c. which is mentioned in Rom. 4. Isiah c. 6.5 I am a Man of unclean lips Chap. 64.6 We are all as an unclean thing and all our Righteousness c. Hear Job called a perfect Man c. 9.30 If I wash my self with Snow-water and make my Hands never so clean v. 31. Yet shalt thou plunge me in the Ditch and mine own Cloaths shall abhor me Let us look at Daniel so much beloved of God how he confesseth Sin as well for himself as the People Dan. 9.7 Ezra likewise c. 9.15 Paul in Rom. 3.9 10. tells us That all both Jews and Gentiles of whom the World consisted were under Sin and not one righteous Ver. 23. All fallen short of the Glory of God 1 Job 1.8 If we say we have no sin we lye c. He writes to those that were called and sanctified and takes in himself with them and all Saints that ever were or ever should be And it s but a lie to rest so in any Righteousness as to take us off from Confession of Sin This is spoken to make them prize the more Forgiveness of Sin by Christ's Blood 3. Jesus Christ of Nazareth that was born at Bethelem that was of the Seed of David according to the Flesh brought this Righteousness He was called the Holy One and the Just in Daniel he is called the most Holy in Jeremiah the Righteous Branch in Peter A lamb without Spot and Blemish in 2 Cor. 5. ult Knew no Sin Now this came to pass 1. In that He was born of a Virgin in an extraordinary Way Luke 1.34 The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the Power of the Highest shall over shadow thee therefore that Holy Thing that shall be born of thee c. Thus there was no Original Sin in him or upon him 2. He who brought this Righteousness was the Holy One in that being the Anointed having the Spirit without measure by his Active Obedience in his Life absolutely and compleatly fulfilled the Law of God in all things and at all times Rom. 8.4 That the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us How can that be but only as Christ in our nature fulfilled it for us by his Holy Life Mat. 5. He came to fulfil the Law I come to do thy Will O God in Hebr. 10.7 Now this was required in the Sanction of the Law viz. Do this and live either we must or another for us otherwise no Life We could not through Weakness in the Fall therefore Christ came and did all in our place and stead 3. By laying down a Full Price for the Sin of his People by the Sacrifice of himself suffering Death on the Cross without the Gates at Jerusalem Therefore this his giving himself to Death is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Satisfactory Price of Redemption in the room and place and stead of another That God hath Justice in him the very Light of Nature sheweth Rom. 1. ult it 's said of the Heathens who knowing the Judgment of God i. e. his vindictive Justice The barbarous People Acts 28.4 could say Vengeance would not suffer Paul to live when they saw the Viper upon his Hand apprehending him to be a Murderer They saw this in the Deity viz. A Vengeance ready to punish Sin Now this is as dear to Him as his Mercy it being himself it must therefore be satisfied being wronged by the Sin of Man and He cannot deny himself And if it should rest upon those that had sinned it would have burned to the lowest Hell and and so the Lord would have been deprived of all Worship and Service from his People But now this way it is satisfied viz. the Father poured out all his Wrath upon his Son Jesus Christ upon whom the Guilt of his People was charged Isa 53. All our Iniquities met upon him and therefore it 's said in that 53d Chapter He was bruised striken of God In Gal. 3.13 Made a Curse Zach. 13. Awake O Sword against thy Shepherd against the Man my Fellow smite the Shepherd And now He being God as well as Man his Fellow Co-equal bare up under this Wrath. 4. This Righteousness of Jesus Christ becomes ours by Imputation it is reckoned ours and accounted ours by the Father's Act As if we had thus done and suffered these Scriptures speak thus much viz. Rom. 5.19 By the Obedience of One many are made righteous 2 Cor. 5. ult That we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him Now we are made Righteousness in the same way as He was made Sin for these two are set in contradiction to one another but he was not made Sin by Inhesion for He knew no Sin therefore this way viz. by Imputation Jer. 23.6 He shall be called i. e. He shall really be Jehovah Tsidkenu The Lord our Righteousness he had spoke of him as the Righteous Branch springing up from David as being made Flesh in the 5th Verse and here as Jehovah Here is both his Manhood and Godhead and as thus He is our Righteousness This cannot be spoken of the Light that every Man hath For is that the Branch from David Or is that Jehovah God that gives being to all things Nor of the Spirit that cannot be called the Branch Nor of Faith nor of Works of what sort soever but only of Jesus Christ