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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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adventure to assert that opinion either as divinely Revealed or opened or as necessary to be believed or received as an Article of Faith or that will undertake to demonstrate how many times or Intervals of life they themselves have liv'd on Earth and what transactions or remarkable passages or things good or bad they have done or passed thorough in those their supposed past Intervals of Life The CONCLUSION TO conclude as we are perswaded want of walking in the true Light and want of Christian Charity is the great cause of Divisions in profest Christian Societies of all sorts and of this difference among a few persons in America professing the same Light and Truth with us We are ashamed of and surprised at the bitter language and severe Consequences and Treatment in some of the Printed Books from one party and exposing the weaknesses and unwarrantable expressions of some of the other to the open Enemies of both and of Religion it self all which as also to make any publick Rent in a Religious society on personal offences or Private Occasions are greatly unbecoming our Christian Profession Charity or Society And we pray God rebuke and stop this troublesome Spirit of Enmity and Division whereever it is for it makes great Disturbance and Trouble in the Creation and where it enters in Church or State yet it 's ill work is no new thing 't was the same Spirit that infested and troubled the Primitive Christian Churches causing Divisions and Offences contrary to the Gospel of Peace at first receiv'd and whereby parties and Schisms were made and one to say I am of Paul another of Apollo another of Cephas which Carnality the Apostle reproved as knowing and testifying that Christ whom they all profest is not divided and if Christian Tenderness and Charity might Influence all parties we see no real cause for these few persons aforesaid to divide or separate outwardly especially about Doctrin seeing both profess one Light one Spirit one God and one Lord Jesus Christ and Faith in him and sincerely to believe the holy Scriptures and even the person charging the other in Print to own the Body of the People called Quakers and seems to approve of our antient faithful and generally approved Friends Writers or Publishers of our Doctrins and Principles and Preachers among us generally owned and approved by us as Men of sound Judgment and understanding and as owning the fundamental Articles of the Christian and Protestant Faith Thus far the Person charging in his serious Appeal p. 6. As also the same person further openly signified at the other Friends meeting that he and his Friends had unity with the most there as to the main As also withall faithful Friends every where excepting only some in their meeting that were unsound c. Reason Causes p. 26. and therefore if most on both sides have Unity as to the Main we may charitably suppose they do not differ in the Main or substance of Christian Faith or Doctrin before cited and sincerely owned and confessed by us if tenderly and duly considered by both sides as Men seeking Peace Love and Concor'd Wherefore the difference was very indiscreetly managed aggravated and exposed to separation Printing and Reproach seeing 't was not in the Main We wholly dislike of such rending and tearing such dividing and aggravating proceedings and bitter Treatment and have no Unity therewith But desire the Lord in Mercy to Repair Breaches and heal Backslidings among them and all esteemed Christian Professions and Societies and incline all to the Main to the True Light to the substance and Life of Christianity to true Love fervent Charity and Tender-heartedness and Forgiveness towards one another and to follow Peace with all Men and Holiness without which no Man shall see the Lord. A POSTSCRIPT relating to the Doctrin of the Resurrection and Eternal Judgment AT the last trump of God and Voice of the Archangel the Dead shall be raised Incorruptible the Dead in Christ shall rise first 1 Cor. 15.52 1 Thes 4.16 compared with Mat. 24.31 Many are often alarum'd in Conscience here by the Word and Voice of God who stop their Pars and slight those Warnings but the great and final Alarum of the laft Trumpet they cannot stop their Ears against nor escape it will unavoidably seize upon and further awaken them finally to Judgment They that will not be alarum'd in their Consciences unto Repentance nor out of their Sins here must certainly be alarum'd to Judgment hereafter Whosoever do now wilfully shut their Eyes hate contem or shun the Light of Christ or his Appearance within shall at last be made to see and not be able to shun or hide themselves from his glorious and dreadful Appearance from Heaven with his mighty Angels as with Lightning and in flaming Fire to render Vengeance on all them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 7.8 Mat. 24.27 Luk. 17.24 Dan. 10.6 Job 37.3 And though many now evade and reject the Inward Convictions and Judgment of the Light and shut up the Records or Books thereof in their own Consciences they shall all be at last opened and every one judged of these things recorded therein according to their Works Rev. 20.12 13 14 15. Signed in behalf of our Christian Profession and People aforesaid George Whitehead Ambrose Rigg William Fallowfield James Parke Charles Marshall John Bowater John Vaughton William Bingley FINIS
hereafter that when he at last appears we may appear with him in Glory Col. 3.4 1 Joh. 3.2 But that all the Wicked who live in Rebellion against the Light of Grace and die finally impenitent shall come forth to the Resurrection of Condemnation And that the Soul or Spirit of every Man and Woman shall be reserved in its own distinct and proper Being so as there shall be as many Souls in the World to come as in this and every Seed vea every Soul shall have its proper Body as God is pleased to give it 1 Cor. 15. A Natural Body is sown a Spiritual Body is raised that being first which is Natural and afterward that which is spiritual And tho' 't is said this corruptible shall put on incorruption and this mortal shall put on Immortality the change shall be such as Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God neither doth Corruption inherit Incorruption 1 Cor. 15. Ch. We shall be raised out of all Corruption and Corruptibility out of all Mortality and the Children of God and of the Resurrection shall be Equal to the Angels of God in Heaven z Mat. 22.30 Mark 12.25 Luk. 20.36 And as the Coelestial Bodies do far excel Terrestrial so we expect our Spiritual Bodies in the Resurrection shall far excel what our Bodies now are and we hope none can justly blame us for thus expecting better Bodies than now they are Howbeit we esteem it very unnecessary to dispute or question how the Dead are raised or with what Body they come But rather submit that to the wisdom and pleasure of Almighty God 2ly For the Doctrin of Eternal Judgment God hath committed all Judgment unto his Son Jesus Christ and he is both Judge of quick and Dead and of the states and ends of all Mankind Jo. 5.22.27 Act. 10.42 2 Tim. 4.1 1 Pes 4.5 That there shall be hereafter a great Harvest Which is the End of the World a great day of Judgment and the Judgment of that great day the Holy Scripture is clear a Mat. 13.39 40 41 Ch. 10.15 and 11.24 Jude 6. When the Son of Man cometh in his Glory and all the Holy Angels with him then shall he sit upon the Throne of his Glory and before him shall be gathered all Nations c. Mat. 25.31 32. to the end compared with Chap. 22.31 Mark 8.38 Luk. 9.26 and 1 Cor 15.52 2 Thes 1.7 8. to the end and 1 Thes 4.16 Rev. 20.12 13 14 15. That this Blessed Heavenly Man this Son of Man who hath so deeply suffered and endured so many great Indignities and persecutions from his Adversaries both to himself and his Members and Brethren should at last even in the last and great day signally and manifestly appear in Glory and Triumph attended with all his glorious Heavenly Host and Retinue before all Nations before all his Enemies and those that have denied him this will be to their great terror and amazement that this most glorious Heavenly Man and his Brethren that have bin so much contemned and set at nought should be thus exalted over their Enemies and persecutors in glory and Triumph is a righteous thing with God and that they that suffer with him should appear with him in glory and dignity when he thus appears at last Christ was Judg of the World and the Prince thereof when on Earth Joh. 9.39 and 12.31 He is still Judg of the World the wickedness and Prince thereof by his Light Spirit and Gospel in Mens Hearts and Consciences Joh. 16.8 11. Matt. 12.18 20. Isa 42.1 Rom. 2.16 1 Pet. 4.6 And he will be the Judg and final determiner thereof in that great Day appointed God having appointed a Day wherein he will Judg the World in Righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained Christ foretold it shall be more tollerable for them of the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that City or People that would not receive his Messengers or Ministers c. Matth. 10.15 and see Chap. 11.24 and Mark 6.11 Luk. 10.12 14. 'T is certain that God knows how to deliver the Godly out of all their Trials and Afflictions and at last to bring them forth and raise them up into Glory with Christ so he knoweth also how to reserve the unjust and finally Impenitent unto the Day of Judgment to be punished 2 Pet. 2.9 He will bring them forth unto the Day of Destruction Job 21.30 The Lord can and will reserve such Impenitent presumptuous and Rebellious Criminals as bound under Chains of Darkness as were the sallen Angels unto the Judgment of the great day Jude 6. Mat. 25.30 'T is not for us to determin or dispute the manner how they shall be so reserved but leave it to God he knows how Touching the Opinion of the Revolution or Transmigration of Humane Souls or their passing out of one Body into another c. as 't is deem'd originally to have sprung from the Heathen and receiv'd among Jews and some others by Tradition and said to be the Opinion of our Empedocles Pythagoras and Egyptians and partly of Julian the Apostate when he dreamed that the Soul of Alexander the Great was crept into his Carcass or rather that he was Alexander himself in another Body And thereupon Rejecting the suit of the Persians for peace presumtuously Proceeded in the War and to Bloodshed against them until at unawares he got his Deaths wound according as is more fully related in History particularly Socrates's Scholasticus Lib. 1. Ch. 17. and lib. 3. Ch. 18. Eccles Chron. fo 577. See also Dr. Hammond's Annotations on Joh. 9.1 2 3. We are not concern'd in any such notion but as a People wholly clear of it We deem it neither necessary to Faith nor safe to receive or defend as either held by those Heathen Egyptians or Jews aforesaid nor as 't is insinuated in a Late Pamphlet of 200 queries Concerning the Doctrin of the Revolution of Humane Souls Supposing twelve Revolutions or twelve distinct Intervals of Life to every Man as being twelve several times born into the World for each one to live or consummate the space of 1000 years on Earth Though this opinion of such Revolution appears not to be a point in present Controversy in the Book aforesaid or in Pensilvania nor maintained as any Divine opening Revelation or necessary Article of Faith but rather Evaded from being publickly controverted yet in as much as there appears some Ground of suspicion in the Case and as it seems to be favoured implicitely by some Therefore that we as a People may not be suspected about it we sincerely declare our Clearness from the said opinion as really esteeming it not safe to propagate or maintain or trouble Peoples Heads or Minds with it but all to improve their present time and mercies and we are the less concerned about the aforesaid Queries and Doctrin because we find not any known person or persons of credible Authority that will