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A33735	The perfect pharisee under monkish holinesse opposing the fundamentall principles of the doctrine of the gospel, and scripture-practices of gospel-worship manifesting himselfe in the generation of men called Quakers, or, A preservative against the grosse blasphemies and horrid delusions of those, who under pretence of perfection and an immediate call from God, make it their business to revile and disturb the ministers of the gospel published for the establishing of the people of God in the faith once delivered to the saints, and in a speciall manner directed to beleevers, in Newcastle and Gateside.	Weld, Thomas, 1590?-1662.; Cole, William.	1653 (1653)	Wing C5045; ESTC R37653	40,293	52

yet upon enquiry denied they either saw shape or heard voyce 4. That this their pretence of being commanded or sent forth immediately by God is most wicked and vaine and meerly their way to get populer applause or acceptance is plaine For 1. If they be with-held in publique from delivering their message there as they may pretend yet why doe they not deliver it in private or at other times When they came to Newcastle and were with us before the Magistrates they delivered not their message there and they might have had liberty with freedome to come to any of our Houses nay some of them were invited thither by some of us How fully doe they contradict themselves and are faithlesse messengers to their master neither true to God nor Satan 2. If they were under such powerfull impulses of the spirit to speake as they pretend they are that they cannot hold we desire to know how they can now of late forbeare till our publique worship and exercise be concluded At their first breaking forth it was otherwise but since they have found that their speaking in the time of our publique worke is punishable by Law they can now be silent till we have closed up the worke Certainely such politique proceedings doe evidently make plaine that their pretence of an extraordinary command and strong impulses of the spirit are absolute counterfeit either against their owne consciences or by the strong delusions of the Father of Lyes 3. Their usuall charge in publique against us is that we a●●Deceivers and doe teach lyes in the name of the Lord yet when they are charged to produce any one tittle by us delivered that they particularly can call a lye there is nothing that they doe ordinarily produce or can except against us but will presently runne to such expressions as these Thou wearest long Robes and Prayest standing in the Synagogues and therefore they tell us in the name of the Lord we Preach lye● this wa● fully apparent lately before the Magistrates of Newe●stle where John Audland Stubbes and the woman their partner were called and challenged to instance in any one particular of the Doctrine delivered by either of us which they durst affirme to be a lye but had no syllable against it to object and as we could instance in many other cases 4. But would you lastly see their folly in pretending to an immediate light take this following Story George Fox meeting with ●ne Mr. Nichols in Carlile told him that he was an Hypocrite c. he replying asked him if he knew his heart he sayd he did He asked him againe and Fox affirmed againe he did He then asked him if he knew his Name Fox answered I know by thy questions thou art an Hypocrite shuffling so lamentably to evade his question To whom Mr. Nichols answered Dost thou know my heart and not know my name And so shaked him off as a most notorious Impostor Reader they that live in the Countries where these people come or doe reside doe know we might discover much more of their Principles and Practises then what we have done We might pleade against them the fruits of their casting off the Word and way of God and the more because they justifie them in stead of mourning for them Such as George Fox his cur●ing of Mr F●therstone Miles Ralhead his cursing of master Walker Minister of Kendale very lately in the presence of master Archer and Mr. Cooke Christopher Atkinson a grand leader of this people and a Propheticall Impostor ●or a good while together his very immodest familiarity with to say no more a woman of his way in the sight of a godly Minister at Kendale M. Wa●●●oe The wife of Edmund Adlington of Kendale going naked November 21. 1653. through Kenda'e streets c. but these we have named are the very badge of their profession and we are satisfied that this will suffice to enforce that rule of the Apostle upon every watchfull heart from such turne away VVe shall now adde the reason of our Title and how fully that title of Pharisee which they ordinarily give to others will fall upon themselves will thus appeare 1. The Pharisees it is f 〈…〉 nowne did seperate themselves from the rest of the People upon an account of a conceit they had of their owne surpassing holinesse This is the very reason of their Name as Luke 18. 9. Christ spoake that Parab●e about the Publicans and Pharisees unto certaine that trusted in themselves that they were righteous and de●●ised others How fully is this the spirit of these men all that are acquainted with their Principles and Practises know Not any whatsoever being owned of them as Saints but such as walke in their way ptonouncing damnation to all others Let them Reade and consider Isay 65. 5. They which say stand by thy selfe come not neere to me for I am holier then thou these are a smoke in my Nose and as a fire that burneth all the day 2. Their undeniable conformity to the Pharisees is in their knowne rash censuring John 7. 49. When the people had spoken to the prayse of the Lord Jesus the Pharisees presently censure saying This people who knoweth not the Law are Cursed What is this but the ordinary Phrase of Quakers i● pronouncing every one cursed and damned that is not of their way Iohn 10. 20. There was a division amongst the Iewes and many of them said he hath a Devill and is mad So Iohn 9. 16. Mat. 11. 19. Behold a man gluttenous and a Winebibber No man dare say that Christ sinned in excesse as to meat and drinke but onely this was their Pharisaicall slander because of his lawfull use of meat and drinke Here you have them againe perfectly acted in pronouncing others cursed and rashly judging the lawfull use of meats c. and appearing the most absolute successors to Pharisees 3. Mat. 23. 13. Christ is there charging the Pharisees for shutting the Kingdome of Heaven against men which is known to be by putting people upon a righteousnesse within them in opposition to that of Christ And how fully this is the very businesse of Quakers we referre you to that Position of theirs in pag. 10. of this Booke But we shall adde that Mat. 5. 20 Except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees yee shall in no case enter into the Kingdom of heaven 4. Mat. 23. 15. There Christ pronounceth a woe to the Pharisees for compassing Sea and Land to make one Pro●elyte which so made is two-fold more the childe of Hell then before Considering the blasphemies of these men before alledged and their wandring up and downe to carry on that designe of poysoning mens hearts with their Doctrines any Reader will see the fulnesse of the parallell 5. Mat. 23. 23. You have another woe pronounced against the Pharisees by Christ for tything Mint c. but neglecting the weightier matters of the Law c. How evidently is

Christ imputed to me but by the righteousnesse of Christ inherent in me Confut. 1 This assertion is fully and industriously confuted by the Apostles and we may cry out Gal. 3. 1. Who hath bewitched the hearts of these men Gal. 3. 10. As many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse for it is written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things c. clearely holding forth an universall impossibility to fulfill the righteousnesse of the Law Ver. ●2 and ver. 21. If there had been a Law given which could have given life verily righteousnesse should have been by the Law But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by Faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that beleeve Rom. 4. 5. To him that worketh not but beleeveth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted to him for righteousnesse Even as David himself describeth the blessednesse of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works v. 6. This Doctrine beleeved and practised was the very reason of the Iewes stumb●ing at the Gospel Rom 9. 30. 31. Rom. 10. 3. 4. We might weary you with quoting such Texts as Rom. 3. 19. to the last multitudes of Scriptures fully clearing up this soule-ravishing truth of justification not by inherent holinesse but by Faith in the bl●od of the Lord Iesus but we shall close it up with these in stead of all 1 Cor. 4. 4. Phil. 3. 8. 9. 10. Position 8. That God and man cannot be wholly reconciled till ●e be brought into the state of the first Adam and able in his owne power to stand perfect Proofe We referre the Reader for proofe hereof to a Booke of Naylers pag 26. where he is so confident of this Doctrine that he proposeth it as a Quaere to all as if none should have the boldnesse to gain-say it your owne Eyes may satisfie you there Confut. 1. Is not this to bring us perfectly under the covenant of workes and to make us our owne reconcilers and so to make voyd the death of Christ But he that hath an Eare to ●eare let him heare what the spirit saith Rom. 5. 10. When we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne Rom. 8. 3. what the Law could not doe in that it was weake through the flesh God sent his owne Sonne to performe 2. And let the Reader observe that as the merit of Christ is by their horrible Doctrine before mentioned wholly made uselesse as to righteousnesse so by this Position the very spirit and power of the Lord Iesus is wholly cast out as to sanctification and holinesse And so this Anti-Christian Generation have totally renounced the Lord that bought them For this our standing perfect is in that assertion attributed wholly to our own power Alas who knowes not that Iohn 15. 4. 5. Iohn 1. 16. It pleased the Father that in him should all fulnesse dwell Col. 1. 19. Phil. ● 13. it is God that worketh in you both to will and to doe that is the Alpha and Omega the very a●thor and finisher of our Faith Heb. 12. 2. Phil. 1. 6. These are the People that pretend to leade you to Christ that thus leave you to the meere strength of your weake and rotten natures both for life and holinesse 3. This bringing us againe to the state of the first Adam till which time this people say God and we cannot be fully reconciled is nothing else but to bring us againe under a covenant of workes And though perhaps to be restord to the state of Adam may seem a glorious thing yet it will clearely appeare to be short of that Gospel-state you are translated into to the more infinite advancing of Free Grace Are you not clearely told the second Adam the Lord Iesus Heb. 7. 22. is made a surety of a better Covenant Heb. 8. 6. Established on better Promises For whereas the first Adam by that Covenant First Was to doe and live Secondly Had no Promise of perseverance in that state Thirdly Nor was there a Mediator to enterpose in case of breach the tenour of the Law in it selfe considered as a Covenant clearely dis-owning any Mediator 4. In a word the sad condition of Adam under such a covenant though for a time in so good an estate if it be not enough experimentally seen in all our falls by his yet may in the ruine of damned Angels standing upon the like tearmes be known apparantly First Yet in the Gospel-state Iesus Christ purchased life for us to be received not by working but by beleeving Rom. 4. 5. 6. And secondly None can take out of his hands Thirdly If any man sinne we have an Advocate with the Father 1 Iohn 2. 2. And fourthly Are delivered from the wrath to come Rom. 5. 9. So that it will appear that this restitution to the state of the first Adam being so magnified by these men fully speaks how low their spirits are as to the things of God how Legall their conceptions of the way of salvation and that it is but a miserable state in comparison of what you are brought to by the Covenant of Grace For how doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceed in Glory 2 Cor. 3. Position 9. That no man that commits sin or that is not perfectly holy can ever enter into the Kingdome of Heaven unlesse there be a Purgatory Proofe Iames Nayler in his Booke before quoted pag. 26. puts it by way of quaere And the very reading of the said page will evidently manifest it that this is not onely his Principle but any assertion to the contrary looked upon by him as an impossibility or grosse absurdity Confut. Our Purgatory is the blood of Iesus which cleanseth the soule otherwise as to its personall actings very guilty from all sinne as 1 Iohn 1. 7. And though perhaps these tremblings and quakings which the Administrator at Haxham in his Banners affirmes pag. 18. doubtlesse his false Iew could doe and which kinde of extasies pag. 24. he derives from the Francif●an Fryars may be looked upon by these People as a Purgatory from their sin●e●●●et we dare not trust our eternity upon such impost●r●● or be they never so reall on things so evidently rather the ●●●●e of Legall conviction and the horrour of an unbeleeving ●o●l● ●●●● of any saving knowledge of the Gospel How 〈◊〉 doth this one Position lay the very whole designe of 〈…〉 ably naked and bare as to an overturning of righteousnesse by the blood of Iesus Our way and the onely way into the holy of holies is by that blood Heb. 10. 19. 20. by Faith in which a soule otherwise wicked ungodly c. Rom. 4 5. is justified and though guilty as to his own actings of many infirmities shall be absolved and stand undeniably righteous before the Tribunall of the Father But alas how sottish are the spirits of these men in this discovered to be how grossely ignorant

of the great businesse of justification of sinners by Faith of Iesus Christ that dare trust to so filthy raggs in the presence of so just and so holy a God Position 10 No reall Saint but he that is perfect and perfectly holy in this life and doth not sinne Proofe It is the designe of Nayler in his Booke in severall Paegs to prove this see his Book pag. 21. 22. Nayler hath oft spoken it of himselfe and said he witnessed it So G. Fox hath done others some of us doe know have said they witnesse perfection in Nayler Nay so farre doth Farnesworths ignorance of the Gospel proceed that in his Booke pag. 20. he thus writes They say they can never overcome the body of sinne or be made perfect here and they say no un ●l●ane thing shall ever enter into the Kingdome of God How doth this agree It s one of their ordinary out-●ryes against the Ministers because they oppose this Doctrine And t is the most generall Doctrine of all their Books and Papers Confut. 1. Let the Reader consider there must be of necessity a distinction of the word perfect and perfection in Scripture though we know this Generation of men will cry downe distinctions and pronounce that cur●e against us Rev. 22. as if we added to the word Yet the following cases will evidence the absolute necessity of distinctions if the unity of truth and the faithfulnesse of the word be owned at all Reade 1 Iohn 1. 8. 10. If we s●y that we have no sinne the truth is not in us compared with 1 Iohn 3. 8 9. Whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sinne Reade 1 Iohn 5. 16 There is a sinne to death and there is a sinne not to death So Isay 9 7. Of his Gouernment there shall be no end compared with 1 Cor. 15 24 Then commeth the end when he shall deliver ●p the Kingdome c 2. Now as to a necessity of it in the case in hand consider the various use of the word in Seripture Phil. 3. is very full ver. 12. Not as though I had already attained either were already perfect compared with ver. 15. where t is a word of the same root the Apostle speaking of the Saints and taking in himselfe in that expression adds Let us therefore as many as are perfect be th●● minded In which is plainely evident that Paul shall grossely contradict himselfe unlesse there be a distinguishing betwixt the variety of the sense of the word perfect 3. That perfection therefore ver. 12. is perfection in Glory as the verses both before and presently following it doe fully cleare it s that for which Paul was apprehended of Christ as is evident 1 Cor. 13. 10. where t is opposed to Pauls present state When that which is perfect i● come then that which is in part shall be done away clearely meaning his injoyment of God in glory as is plaine ver. 12. Now we see through a glasse darkely ●●en face to face Now the same word perfect in ver. 15. that it cannot possibly be meant of the same sort of perfection is evident For as the Apostle tells you that he enjoying the perfection v. 15. is yet short of is pressing forward towards the perfection in ver. 12. as to a thing that 's yet before so taking the word in both places in the same sense it were a contradiction for him to say he is perfect and is not perfect For the true meaning thereof we give you three Scriptures 1 Cor. 2. 6. Howbeit we speake wisedome amongst those that are perfect 1 Cor. 14. 20. In malice be yee children but in understanding be yee men or be ye perfect for the word is the same with the former Text Heb 5 last Stong meat belongs to those that are of full age or that are perfect In all which places it is evident in it selfe that the word imports Christians growne up to more knowledge in the Gospel then others had who are in these quotations called Babes From the consideration of this Text it may be fully seen that perfection of Saints here is not that absolute perfection in glory which Paul professed he had not attained to but that comparative perfection of being growne up to more then ordinary measures of Grace and understanding much beyond the attainement of Babes in Christ 2. As for our perfection by justification the Scriptures fully hold it out upon the account of the imputed righteousnesse of Christ whereby the spouse appeares altogether lovely not upon the account of her own holinesse for so she is blacke and an infant in her blood but we know that t is not this perfection they speake of as he that hath but looked into their Books may presently discover 3. There is a perfection which the Scriptures expresseth integrity by as that word speaks the truth of grace in opposition to hypocrisie Thus Iob is called perfect Iob 1. 1. but that this perfection doth not imply a totall absence of sinne is plaine witnesse his sinfull passionate cursing the day of his birth Iob 3. 3. Let the day perish wherein I was borne Job 6. 8. 9. Oh that is would please God to destroy me that he would let goe his hand and cut me off See his owne confession Job 9. 20 2● If I say I am perfect my owne mouth shall prove ●●● perverse Thus Asa is called perfect 1 Kings 1● 14 The high places were not removed neverthelesse Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his dayes Here is the perfection of Asa's heart with God and that all his dayes yet you shall ●nd● first He tooke 〈◊〉 away the high places which was a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secondly He tooke the gold and silver ou● o 〈…〉 the ●●●se of the Lord and sent them to the 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 ue ●Chron 16. 7. 9 Thirdly 〈…〉 an● put him in the Pri 〈…〉 ppressed the People at 〈…〉 And ●● his D●●●as● sought not to the Lord 〈…〉 So that you may clearely see in wh 〈…〉 h● was s●●d to ●●perfect As for other examples in this kinde ●● this time it may be clearely understood in what sense the spirit c●l●● them perfect who otherwise had their personall grosse infirmitie● 4. You are to disting●●sh betwixt the perfection of God and the perfection of the creature in reference to that Text Mat 5. last In which place perfection cannot signifie that which brings up to an equality with God but a similitude unlesse you runne upon that blasphemous Principle of equallity with God of which we have said enough before 5 By our thus comparing Scripture with Scripture we expect from their former usage in this kinde they will charge us with pleading for sinne though we are but discovering the imperfections of the best Saints lest they shou'd live upon their owne righteousnesse which to set up and establish in opposition to that of Christs imputed is evidently the designe of Quakers And that so the strength of the Lord may