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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54003	A just rebuke to one & twenty learned and reverend divines (so called) being an answer to an abusive epistle against the people call'd Quakers subscrib'd by : Thoman Manton, Thomas Jacomb, John Yates, John Sheffield, Anthony Palmer, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doelittel, Richard Baxter, William Cooper, George Griffith, Matthew Barker, John Singleton, Andrew Parsons, Richard Mayo, Thomas Gouge, William Jenkyn, Thomas Watson, Benjamin Needler, William Carslake, Stephen Ford, Samuel Smith / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1674 (1674)	Wing P1131; ESTC R208998	24,420	33

been who have sacrificed Vniversal Love Natural Affection Relation the Liberties and Lives of Men diff●rently perswad●d to the Promotion of your so much Beloved Interests Remember T. Edward's Gangraen and the London-Ministers Petition and the New-England Tragedy How exceeding short doth this fall of the Admirable Sweetness of his Nature who is Lord of the Christian-Religion that was so far from Indulging Hatred to his Conscientious Friends that he forbid it to his greatest Enemies Can you call for Fire from Heaven upon Dissenters and rather then not compass their Destruction kindle Fire on Earth to devour them and yet with any the least Pretence to Modesty cheek others for Incharity and S●paration But take this with you that good Notions will signifie little to the Comfort of an ill Soul at God's Bar it will not be Well H●ld but Well Done Good and Faithful Servant Preferring Opinion before Piety hath filled the World with Perplexing Controversies and Mens Censures have been according to Notion not according to Conversation It is not what Works but what Faith though Works best of all define and evidence what Faith is But this Age hath no Kindness for Good Works the more the Pitty Loose Men slight them in Life and you in Doctrine A Man cannot plead for them but at the Hazard of being counted a Papist Tell you such an one is a Virtuous Person and you an●wer us commonly He is a Good Moral Man but he hath no Saving Grace as if Grace and Morality were at as great Distance as London and Constantinople These Notions have abused Religion and greatly injured the Souls of People 1. By giving them to conceit themselves Christians though Vnlike Christ 2. In Distinguishing between a Good Man and a Christian from whence hath flown that Stinginess of Spirit that denies any to have Saving Grace that fall not in with their Principles and so divides Gr●ee from Virtue which God hath Inseparably joyned This is the Doctrine that deceiveth Men which make them too great for the rest of Mankind Moral Men are no Company for them they may be that and go to Hell for their Pains if what some of you say be true It is the Presbyterians special Grace that saveth for Morality's Part alas she is a poor Heathen an Alien an Infidel without the Pale of the Church and Mercies of the Covenant but then it is to be understood of the Scotch One Oh I beseech you for the sake of Jesus Christ by whom alone God will judge you and I in the Dreadful Day of Account let the Vniversal Principle in your Consciences have Power with you the Divine Fruit of which is first A Discovery of Duty to be done and as clo●ed with there next Power and Ability to perform it which strips you of Self and Glorying in it and will work all necessary Works In you and For you It will first correct and then comfort you Its Wayes are Wayes of Pleasantness and all her Paths are Peace To Faith it adds Virtue to Virtue Knowledge to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godliness to Godliness Brotherly-Kindness and to Brotherly-Kindness CHARITY Contend not against it your Credit is a Temptation to you sacrifice it for the sake of your own and other Mens Souls upon the Altar self-Denyal and that Humble and Heavenly Obedience you owe to the God of the whole Earth and think not Repentance a Work to Mean for you because you have been so long Preachers of it to others your Time hastens on and in the Grave it will be too late If it was John's Honour to receive him when he came in Flesh let it not be your Judgment to reject his coming in Spirit God knows I have no Ill-will but much Kindness for you I wish you were as truly taught of him as you are great Teachers of others could my Desires prevail you should be such upon better Terms but as Wo be unto them who are sent and don't preach so Wo be unto them who do preach and are not sent It is not hard in this Sense to be Righteous overmuch to be too Officious and to act Thanklesly for God Oh that we may all consider what we are Building with and whether our Works will stand the Tryal of God's Fire whose Terrible Day hastens upon the World in which he will severely plead with all Flesh that hath corrupted its Way before him as with the Gentile so with the Jew as with the Prophane so with the Professor VVho hath had a Name to live and yet will be found Dead who calls himself a Jew and yet is not a Christian and is not who runs and God hath not sent him who cryeth thus saith the Lord and God hath never spoaken by him Let us therefore be perswaded into a Serious Examination of our selves and Preparation for this Great and Notable Day of the Lord that the Sound of the last Amazing Trump may not surprize us or any of us be overtaken at unawares but in Godly Fear wait till our great Change comes that with Holy Habakkuk we may all find Rest to our Souls in the Day of Trouble Amen Your Friend in much Sincerity W.P. A POSTSCRIPT AS for his Appendix it s an arrant Cheat obtruded upon the Reader The Title-Page be speaks it a new Piece whereas it is no other in the Matter and for a great Part of the Words of it then what hath been answered by me again and again It consists of two Parts 1. Two Letters of our Friends with his usual disingenuous Discants which Letters are justify'd from his Black Imputations in my Rejoy●der and another Discourse call'd Judas and the Jews The second Part of the Appendix is a Collection of our Principles which both in my Answer and Rejoynder I have prov'd to be his own Indirect Foul Consequences from our R●al Principles which lye at his Door or rather now at his One and Twenty Learned and Reverend Divines that have so Imprudently espoused his Cause and recommended his Endeavours Qu. no Chr. pag. 45. My Answer pag. 42. Rejoynder pag. 60 61 62. Rejoy ibid. Qu. no Chr. p. 117 119 My Rejoynder from pag. 141. to 157. Qu. no Chr. pag. 41. Answ p. 35. Rejo. p. 424. Vind. p. 50. Rejo. p. 194 195. Qu. no Chr. part 3. p. 88. Answ p. 250. Qu. no Chr. pag. 89. Answ p. 251 252. Rejoy p. 395 396. Qu. no Chr pag. 163. Vindic. from p. 75. to 87. Rejo. p. 348 349 350. Qu. no Chr. p. 9 10. Answ p. 14. Rejo. p. 420. Qu. no Chr. pag. 190. Rejo. p. 126 127 425.