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A31337 The innocent cleared and the guilty made manifest being a reply to a printed paper ... titled, Apostacy of the people called Quakers from the faith once delivered to the saints, subscribed by Francis Houlcroft and Joseph Oddey ... also a testimony of the universal love of God in Jesus Christ ... / by a servant of truth ... Samuel Cater. Cater, Samuel, d. 1711. 1676 (1676) Wing C1485; ESTC R36282 21,810 32

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Odious and this thou knowest we can prove to thy Face and shal● d● it if the L●r● give ●s an Opportunity And now read what is said in the Holy Scriptures of Christ which thou nor all the cunning Crafts-men that the old Serpent makes use of to with-stand the Universal Appearance of God's Grace and Light to all men in this the Day of his Love can do Joh. 1.4 In him is Life and the Life was the Light of Men Vers 9. Which was sent to bear witness of that Light that was the True Light that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World which is spoken of Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 God that commanded the Light to shine out of Darkness hath shined in our Hearts to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Iesus and this is the True God and Christ that we believe in and turn People unto who hath shined by the Power and Coming of his Heavenly and Divine Light into our Hearts and Souls whereby he hath made us to inherit Comfort whereby we see the Scripture is fulfilled The People that sate in Darkness have seen a Great Light and those that sate in the Regions and Shadow of Death unto them Light is sprung up Mat. 4.16 whereby we see the fulfilling of the Prophet Isaiah's Prophecy Isa 60.19 The Sun shall be no more thy Light by Day nor for Brightness shall the Moon give Light unto thee but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting Light and thy God thy Glory and this Light is the Way that the Holy Men of God travailed in though thee and thy Fore-fathers know it not saith Solomon The Path of the Just is as the shining Light c. Prov. chap. 4. ver 18. Isa chap. 2. ver 5. O House of Jacob come ye and let us walk in the Light of the Lord and Christ saith I am the Way and there is none comes to the Father but by me who saith also I am the Light of the World and this is the Way that the true Ministers of Christ turned People unto and were made Ministers of Acts 26.23 to open their Eyes to turn them from Darkness to Light c. that by it they might see their Way out of Sin and Evil and to know their Feet guided in the Way of Peace Luke 1.79 which Light and Truth was that which the Prophets prayed for Psalm 43.3 O send out thy Light and thy Truth let them lead me let them bring me unto thy Holy Hill and to thy Tabernacle Psalm 36.19 For with thee is the Foundation of Life in thy Light shall we see Light And now thou that makest it thy Business to cry out against the Quakers Light whose Light is God and Christ and the Truth and Way to Life to so many as walk therein and are guided thereby for this I can say and my Conscience beareth me witness that I never preached nor declared any other Light to be the Way of Life then the true God and Jesus Christ which the Scriptures of Truth largely witness to be so as I have here proved and thou that say'st this God and Christ that lighteth all Men that the Quakers preach is a God that neither you nor your Fathers have known whereby you have manifested your gross Darkness and Ignorance both of the true God and Jesus Christ whom to know is Life Eternal and if I should say no more of this thy railing envious Piece of Confusion which thou and thy Brother Oddey have sent abroad you are largely made manifest to be in that State which you say the Quakers are in who preach another God another Jesus and are of another Spirit then what the Prophets and Apostles were of who said God is Light and Christ is the true Light that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World and this the God that thou say'st neither you nor your Fathers have known and I do tell you that I do believe that you speak Truth in that and do judge you out of your own Mouthes to be in their Steps that crucified Christ of whom he said These Things they do because they know not the Father nor me And this I can truly say notwithstanding all your railing Words and unsavoury Speeches concerning me I desire that the Lord may give you Repentance of your Abuses offered against Christ and his Appearance that so you may come to have the Benefit of his Request unto his Father Father forgive them for they know not what they do for I hope your Envy manifested against us and the Truth which we profess is more out of Ignorance then Wilfulness which if so I des●re the Lord may open your Eyes that you may come to see what you are doing of Page 3. thou say'st That thou offeredst to prove that the Quakers preached another Jesus and had received another Spirit and another Gospel then what was preached by the Apostles Rep. We acknowledge thou said'st so then and now tellest us as much in thy Book but thou didst not go about to prove it then neither hast thou done it now so that it is sooner said then proved and thy pittiful Shift to eva●e the proving of what thou hast promised is already in Print which was to ask us whether we owned the true Christ yea or nay to which then I did freely confess and have m●re largely now confest my Faith and Belief and Hope of Salvation to be in the true God and Jesus Christ whereby it appears thy Accusation against me and the rest of my Brethren is false and that you are the Men that preach another Gospel and are out of the Faith that was once delivered unto the Saints whose Faith stood in the Light and Power of God which was and is the Author of the true Faith and the Finisher in all those that continue therein which Faith gives Victory over the World and gives Power and Courage to follow the Lord as faithfully and confess Christ as openly in Times of Suffering and Persecution as in Times of the greatest Freedom and Liberty which Faith hath been made manifest by our Fruits to be in and amongst us ever since we have been a People whereby it appears that good Daniel's Spirit is revealed in amongst us who would not so much as shut his Windows to shun Persecution but prayed as openly as he did at other Times Page 3. thou say'st One of the Quakers said to a Friend of thine that the Body of Christ consumed in the Grave as others do And Francis why didst not thou set down the Name of that One thou speakest of whereby we might have known who it had been for until thou dost I do charge it upon thee as a false Accusation as knowing it to be none of us that said so neither doth it agree with our Principles and thou knowest that I have confessed otherwise in Print to thy Shame Again page 3. F. H. saith Although I have