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A65886	A serious account in XXXV evident reasons (to all who desire satisfaction) why the people of the lord, called Quakers, cannot go to worship at those places called churches and chappels, and to inform the magistrates and ministers that such consciencious people (as are separated from these places) ought not to be compelled (from their peaceable meetings) to their worship and churches, so called, being a short discovery of the way, worship, and principles of the true ministers and persecuted people of God, in several exceptions against the practices, worship, and principles of the priests, both of the Presbyterians, and Episcopal-men, and others of the same affinity, in some of which principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned, but in others of them, both are concerned in the general / by Geo. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1956; ESTC R20306	27,063	42

silent from their preaching to them to believe if all may not believe and people need not spend their money to the Priests for their deceitful preaching to them for what God hath determined shall come to passe without their Trade of Preaching for Money But this I say that the Saints were elected of God thorow the sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth unto obedience 2 Thess. 2.13 1 Pet. 1.2 and their Election stood in the Seed which obtained the Promise which was before the World was And the cause of mens being reprobated is their Disobedience and Rebellion in the Evil seed against that which may be known of God which is manifest in them For even as they liked not to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to a Reprobate mind Rom. 1. And many that may be saved and may enter into Rest may come short thorow unbelief and the deceitfulness of sin And some that have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of God if they shall return thither again and be entangled therein their latter end is worse than the beginning See Isa. 1.16 17 18 19 20. Ezek. 18.20 to the end of the Chapter Heb. 4. chap. 6.5 6. 10.26 2 Pet. 2.1 20 21 22. So that the cause of man's destruction doth not lie on God's part nor is the fault his but mens Iniquity and Rebellion against the Grace of God given them and wilfully submitting themselves to the Wicked One who is the Author of all Iniquity VIII Of Original Sin ANd whereas the Priests accuse all men except Christ both the Wicked and the Righteous and the Infants who never actually committed sin to be guilty of Original Sin more or lesse from the first Parents c. To this I say that it was the Devil that was the Author and Original of all Sin and cause of men's being guilty of Sin when they transgress the Righteous Law of God within and are in the state of Adam in the transgression and in that unrighteous nature by which all in that state are the Children of Wrath but it was not barely the first Parents eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and so their sinning alone that made men guilty or by nature the children of wrath Though by one man who is the Man of Sin Sin entered into the world and Death by Sin but men being naturally subject to the power of Darkness in themselves and their coming under the nature which brings death and the guilt and causeth the curse upon them For death hath passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 and hath reigned from Adam to Moses over them that have not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression But the Righteous who are begotten again into the Divine Nature of the second Adam and come to be of the Seed which the Blessing is to which is of Abraham such are brought to see the Devil and his works destroyed and are come out of the first Adam's state and nature which was in the transgression Gal. 3.9 2 Pet. 1.4 1 Jo. 3. But whereas some of the Priests have affirmed That Infants in the Mother's womb and such as have not actually committed sin are guilty of Original Sin from Adam by Imputation which they say is enough to condemn them To this I answer That Sin is not imputed when there is no Law Rom. 5. and the Law was added because of transgression What then have Infants in the Mother's womb the Law or are they then capable of the Law that was added because of transgression for it is the righteous Law or Light of God within every man that causeth Sin to be imputed where that Law is transgressed So that of this Law the Priests have in this as in many other things shewed themselves to be exceeding ignorant And though the Curse follow the Seed of the Evil-doer and such as are estranged from the womb who are in that rebellious nature which causeth the Wrath to come upon them Yet some were sanctified in the womb and some filled with the Holy Ghost and so sanctified from the womb Jer. 1.5 Luke 1.15 and some were perfect from the day they were created until the Iniquity was found in them Ezek. 28.15 And this Proverb shall not be used That the Fathers have eaten soure Grapes and the Childrens teeth are set on edge but every man shall dye for his own Iniquity every one that eateth the soure grapes his teeth shall be set on edge Jer. 31.29 The soul that sinneth it shall die Ezek. 18.4 So that we have greatly seen the Priests Ignorance about Original Sin and the Imputation of it and their accusing the Righteous as being guilty of it And now with the Light of the Lord who it is that fashioneth the Child in the womb are we come to see the two Seeds and the two Births the one of which is shapen in Iniquity and conceived in Sin and this the Judgment and Hatred of God follows and takes hold upon but the other hath the Lord covered in the womb and written all its Members in his Book when they were not fashioned Psal. 139. And where this Birth is brought forth the Lord maketh him to hope when he is upon-his Mothers breasts for he is cast upon the Lord from the womb Psa. 22.9 10. Now all that come to the Light of the Lord and to witness the Key of David who saw these two Seeds in him before he came to the Victory or had the Evil seed cast out such must come to see and be sensible of these two in them and when each acts or speaks in them before they come to see the Warfare accomplished or the Victory obtained in the Righteous Seed over the contrary And such as can truly discern these and the nature of each Seed they can read what Jacob and Esau is in the Mystery the one of which God loves and the other he hates and here that is seen wherein men are Children of Wrath and that wherein they become Children of God and inherit his Blessing IX Of the Serpent and the forbidden Fruit. ALso the Priests Ignorance and gross darkness hath appeared who have affirmed That the forbidden Fruit which the Serpent tempted Eve to eat of was an Apple From which Dream of theirs the picture of a Snake and an Apple in its mouth in a Tree with the image of a Man and a Woman are set up at the beginning of Bibles and in many other places from which some have imagined that the Serpent which beguiled Eve was a visible Creature or Beast of the field which for that time had power to speak and to present an Apple to deceive Eve withal when as God said to Man and Woman before the Fall Behold I have given you every Herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the Earth and every Tree in the which is the fruit of a Tree yeelding seed to you

ever And notwithstanding the Priests that have counted the Light in every man but natural and not saving yet some of them have affirmed that Christ giveth to every man a supernatural convincing Light as GOD touching the Law-Truths but not as MEDIATOR touching the Gospel-Truths And thus have they confounded themselves and blindly distinguished about the LIGHT for the LIGHT of GOD within which leads to the Truths of his Righteous Law within it being supernatural is spiritual as the Law is and is the LIGHT of CHRIST the MEDIATOR in whose hand the Law is which by his Light is manifest in man and where obeyed it is a School-master to lead to Christ the Mediator who with his Light is one with the Father not divided and hath all things given to him of the Father And thus with the LIGHT we are come to see over the Priests Babylonish Confusion and Ignorance of CHRIST and his LIGHT about which they are most confounded and do greatly erre as is apparent III. Of the Offer of Salvation ANd the Priests and Professors who affirm That Salvation is offered to All men but not intended for all as free for them but only for a few In this they greatly shew their Ignorance and Error for this would make the offer of Salvation and Grace to the greater part of people to be but in hypocrisie as a cheat or a mock as is the Priests pretending to offer CHRIST to all and bidding all believe when they do not believe GRACE to be free for all nor that All may believe but that God hath determined the greater part of people otherwise when as GOD would not the death of a sinner but rather to return and live and Christ would that All should come into the knowledge of the Truth and be saved And God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved Ezek. 18.32 33.11 Joh. 3.17 1 Tim. 2.4 So that the Grace which saveth is free for all having appeared to all men without respect of persons but men's turning from it into Lasciviousness and perversly rejecting the Salvation that God offers to them is the cause of their condemnation as this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and men love Darkness rather than Light because their deeds are evil IV. Of the Death of Christ. ANd the Priests and Professors affirming That Christ dyed not for all men in the world but only for a few is contrary to the Apostles Doctrine who said That Christ dyed for All that as many as live should not live unto themselves but unto Him who dyed and rose again and that Christ gave himself a Ransom for all to be testified in due time and tasted death for every man and is the Propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole World 2 Cor. 5.14 15. 1 Tim. 2.6 Heb. 2.9 1 Joh. 2.2 Which was a true Testimony of the free Grace and Love of God which is extended to all men in Christ Jesus So that the Priests preaching which is otherwise we may not own nor be Disciples under it V. Of Perfection ALso the Priests in preaching against Perfection and Freedom from Sin in this Life and pleading for sin to remain in all the term of Life In this they do greatly erre and this their preaching and pleading for sin is both against the Scriptures and against the Commands and Promises and Work of God and against both the preaching and praying of Christ and the Saints who were to receive whatsoever they asked in the Faith in Christ's Name Mark 11.24 as also this sinfull Doctrine of the Priests for Sin and Imperfection is against what the Saints attained to by the Power of God before their decease For 1. God commanded his People to be perfect with the Lord their God and to love him with all their heart soul and might Gen. 17.1 Deut. 18.13 chap. 6.5 and 10.12 Mat. 22.37 And 2ly God promised to wash and cleanse his People from all their filthiness and that they should be all Righteous and do no Iniquity Ezek. 36.25 Isa. 60. Zeph. 3.13 And 3ly Christ exhorted his to be perfect as their heavenly Father is perfect and prayed that they might be perfect in one as he and his Father were one Matth. 5.48 Joh. 17.22 23. And 4ly The Saints preached to present men perfect in Christ and exhorted them not to sin but exhorted them to the perfecting of Holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7.1 Col. 1.28 Eph. 4.12 And 5ly Christ is made manifest to destroy Sin and to cleanse his People from all Sin 1 Joh. 1.7 chap. 3. And 6ly the Saints who passed thorow the Law and ●horow the Warfare till they had fought the good fight of Faith witnessed Victory over Sin and the body of Sin destroyed and came to a perfect man in Christ that they could do nothing against the Truth but for the Truth as the Apostle said 1 Cor. 13.8 Rom. 6.6 Col. 2.11 2 Tim. 4.7 And here the Saints prayers and desires to God came to be fulfilled who prayed that his Kingdom might come and his Will might be done in Earth as it is in Heaven where no sin is So that the Priests do greatly erre and strengthen many in their sins by preaching against Perfection which Perfection is Christ's work and contending and pleading for Sin which is the Devil's work which they are in and therefore we cannot own them as our Teachers VI. Of the Priests Exhorting to endeavour after it ALso the Priests exhorting men to endeavour after Perfection and to labour to be clean when they do not believe that such a state is attainable Their so exhorting men is but in unbelief and hypocrisie as is their praying to God to make them clean and righteous and that his Will may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven when they do not believe that they may be clean from sin in this Life nor that the Will of God may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven This their praying is in unbelief and so they ask and receive not Jam. 4.3 So that their preaching and praying which is not in the Faith is neither effectual nor available with the Lord For whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin VII Of Election and Reprobation ANd the Priests and Professors who affirm a particular Election and Reprobation of particular persons from eternity and yet pretend to offer Christ to all and bid all believe as also they take money of all in general that hear them for their preaching to them Herein do they greatly erre and shew their preaching and pretended offering Christ to the greater part to be but in hypocrisie and deceit For how should they receive Christ or believe in him if God hath determined them from eternity to be condemned or reprobated Herein the Priests would make God a respecter of persons and then they may be