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A96383	Antichrist in flesh unmask'd, the Quakers Christianity vindicated, from the malicious and injurious attempts of [brace] Edward Paye, William Alcott, & Henry Loader, in their late defaming confused book falsly styled, Antichrist in spirit unmask'd, or Quakerism a great delusion, wherein their causeless outrage, folly and falshood are deservedly exposed.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1888; ESTC R186514	11,564	37

Rule being the first Words of the Title you leave out the next following in the same Sentence viz. from God discovered thus you deal very disingenuously by them and others p. 18 c. We know none among us that call the Holy Scriptures a Dead or Carnal Letter nor do we own the Words By the Holy Scriptures we intend the Holy Testimonies and Doctrin of Faith and Practice therein contained which is both Living and Spiritual to them that are alive unto God in Christ Though the outward Letter or Writing in it self alone be Dead the Holy Matter contained in it is Living to them that are Living and Spiritual There is the Letter of the Shadows of the Law and Old Covenant which is abolished by Christ and therefore Dead And all Shadows and Carnal Ordinances comparatively are but dead Letter When Paul preferred the Newness of the Spirit to the Oldness of the Letter and the Ministry of the Spirit above the Letter this was not to slight or contemn the Holy Scriptures No more do we in allowing the Holy Spirit the same Preference which the Scripture allows Moreover to them that are Dead to the Spirit to God and Christ the Scripture is Dead the Words therein are Dead and even the Spiritual Living Ministry is Dead as to them The Savour of Death unto Death in them that Perish but the Savour of Life unto Life in them that are Saved As the meer Characters or Letters as written in Paper and Ink have no Sound nor Voyce till Sound be given them by the Reader so the Words contained in them or Preaching from them have no Life but as the Spirit gives it without which all Preaching is Dead and Fruitless I am persuaded in Conscience That in these things our Friends real Intentions in their Writings is explained and never to contemn the Holy Scriptures and our Adversaries hard and ill Constructions answered And though the Holy Spirit from whence the Holy Scriptures proceeded be of itself All sufficient to guide in all the Ways of God both with and without the Scriptures or where they are not in Writing this is not to contemn or slight them where they are but to use them with the help of the same Spirit rightly to understand and practise them It being the Inspiration of the Almighty that giveth Vnderstanding of the Mind and Will of God and without which the Scriptures cannot be truly understood It was from the same Inspiration or Spirit of God the Holy Scriptures first came and from thence they had their Authority and real Credit And by no other Argument or Demonstration can the Divine Authority of Holy Scriptures be effectually proved or evinced to such as question their Authority but by the same Holy Spirit of God in Man bearing Witness to the Truths therein contained It must be something superior to the Scriptures that must so prove their Divine Authority to them that question the same which we do not at all blessed be God and therefore Challenge these Adversaries E. Paye and W. Alcott to prove that the People called Quakers or any Persons continuing in Society with them do say The Holy Scripture is but a dead carnal Letter or that so call the Doctrins or Testimonies therein contained for we positively deny any such Expressions Note also that these Adversaries have apparently perverted and wronged George Whitehead's Words both in Citation and Construction about the Holy Scriptures and the Person of Christ p. 11 12. and 22. And likewise grosly Abused Wrong'd and Mischarged G. Fox James Parnell G. Keith foully perverting and misconstruing their Words p. 28 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 59. And they have also Abused Vilified Defamed and Wronged W. Smith H. Smith J. Naylor E. Burroughs Isaac Pennington S. Crisp W. P. and others Men of better Fame and Repute than themselves and more Righteous and Innocent than their Defamers Now I would seriously enquire of you William Alcott and Henry Loader 1. Was Edward Paye deputed and approved by your Congregation or any select Assembly of Elders or Ministers of the Baptized People or Churches to Write and Publish his said Book against the People called Quakers Or did he do it on his own Authority and Head with your Approbation only 2. What Ministers or Elders of your Churches besides your selves did peruse and approve of Edward Paye's said Book before Printed and of the Printing thereof to defame us as a People 3. Is the said Edward Paye indeed esteemed among you and your Society a good Christian a Person of a Godly and Sober Conversation of sound Judgment Piety and Parts meet to manage Matters of Controversie about Religion 4. Do you intend to stand by him the said Edward Paye in all the Matters that he has Written in Charge both against certain Persons and against the People called Quakers in his Book Pray give us your direct and plain Answer to these Questions the Reason whereof being 1. That Edward Paye and you also have concerned us as a People in your severe and unjust Accusations in his and your Book 2. That we have an Answer drawn up more Comprehensive and Particular reserved for Publication if we may find a farther Occasion or Necessity for it Therefore 't is but equal and reasonable you should be so Ingenuous as to tell us plainly whether your said Book with our Answer may affect your selves only or your whole Society of People seeing it affects us as a whole Society of People If your Book against us be only your own private Act whose Names are to it and not more generally owned nor stood by among your People we would be so just as not to reflect it on your whole Society or People London the 2d of the 1st Mo. 1691 2. By a Lover of Peace and the Souls of Men George Whitehead TO conclude in general against your false Charges and manifold Abuses and Calumnies contained in your said Book i. e. Antichrist in Spirit to anticipate farther Objections on the Matters herein We sincerely Profess and Declare in the Sight of God and Men that we do faithfully Believe and Profess That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by Divine Inspiration And that the three Divine Witnesses in Heaven above namely the Father Son and Holy Ghost are one True and Eternal God Blessed for evermore whose Omnipresence and Omnipotency we also Believe and Profess And the Divinity and Humanity or Manhood of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Eternal Word of God And that in the fulness of time he took Flesh being Miraculously Conceived by the Holy Ghost and Born of the Virgin Mary and suffered the cruel Death of the Cross as an Universal Offering and Sacrifice both in his Body and Blood shed thereon for the Sins of the whole World and was Buried and Rose again the third Day and Visibly Ascended was seen in his Ascending and passed into Heaven and Glory And that he Ascended far

also deriding at the Quakers exhorting People to Turn to the Light within p. 54 55 56. Thus Carnal Blind and Dark have these Baptist Preachers shewn themselves and how grosly Ignorant of the Spiritual Appearance and Kingdom of Christ and his Light within and his own and Apostles Testimony thereof The Lord deliver well-meaning People from such blind Guides Of the Word Quakerism which is a Nick-name in Derision put upon our Christian Profession you tell us It 's derived from a Gesture used Much among them formerly in their Meetings meaning the Meetings of the People called Quakers as was manifest say you by the Westmorland Petitioners viz. That their Practice did exceedingly savour of Sorcery because of the Swellings Quakings Roatings and Foamings that were among them at their Meetings p. 7 8. Were you Eye or Ear-Witnesses of these Gestures No you had this Story from the Westmorland Petitioners and what were they but a Company of envious persecuting Priests and Magistrates whom they had Instigated to Persecution Are you not so Credulous as to take upon Trust any old Story to render the People called Quakers Odious and Ridiculous Is this your Christianity and Religion Lord deliver every well-meaning Person from you and your Envy We deny your Story of Swellings and Foamings as charged on Vs or our Meetings in Westmorland c. But that there has been Weeping Trembling and Lamentation sometimes in our Solemn and Religious Assemblies in Westmorland and other Places I and many more were and are Witnesses when the glorious Power and Day of the Lord arose and broke forth in our Meetings to the Breaking Humbling and Tendering many Hearts from a living Sense of his Divine and Dreadful Presence which was truly felt among us and that the Holy Men of God did Witness Quaking and Trembling as Holy Scripture testifies This you grant is true And the same say you may be said of Wicked Men and Devils And what then God's dreadful Power and Presence can make all Dread and Tremble and Bow before it even both good Men and bad Men yea and Devils also yet the Power is the same that 's over all Wicked Men and Devils have been sometimes terrified by it and made to tremble for fear of his Wrath because of their guilt of Iniquity and good Men and Women have in an humble and a contrite Heart and Spirit Trembled in a Holy Reverence and Sense of the Presence and Power of our Lord Jesus Christ among them in their Inward Attention upon him and his Word and in their fervent Prayers and Supplications to God And how can it be better than Blasphemy to account this Sorcery Such wicked Construction and Insinuation we utterly deny and testifie against and put you to prove it who have received this false Story against us of Swellings and Foamings and Sorcery c. at our Meetings with such wicked defaming Constructions I my self was frequent at our Meetings in Westmorland very early near the very beginning of them in that Country and solemnly Declare it I never saw such Gestures as Swellings and Foamings And I have lately enquired of several of our Ancient Friends who were conversant at those early Meetings in the North and they Declare the same That they never saw such Postures in our Friend's Meetings But set case any have been disordered through some Natural Infirmity Distemper Swooning or Falling Sickness What does this affect us or our Meetings on a Religious Account It may be some of your own People's Case And suppose it should be made appear that divers Anabaptists after they have been Dipt and receiv'd into Church-Fellowship have run Mad or Distracted and others guilty of great Enormities how would this affect either their Church-Profession or Society Pray consider it have you done well or as you would be done by in raking up and aggravating old Stories against the People called Quakers to render them as black and deformed as you can Upon this Story you make this farther Aggravation from Luk. 9.39 We reed of him that was Possessed that he Foamed when the Diabolical Spirit did tear him True and what then Is this any Proof against the Quakers that they are so Possessed or guilty of Sorcery No sure We read further also concerning that Man that was possessed That when he was brought unto Jesus as soon as the Spirit saw him he tore him and fell down on the ground wallowing and foaming and that when Jesus rebuked the Vnclean Spirit and charged him to come out of him and enter no more into him then the Spirit cryed and rent him sore and came out Mark 9.20 25 26. Luke 9.39 42 43. Now suppose that in any meeting of the People called Quakers any such Operations or Gesture has been in any particular Person formerly that some Unclean Spirit has so torn and disordered him or her we may charitably believe it has been because Jesus Christ has come in Spirit and Power among them to rebuke and cast out such Unclean Spirits and to deliver them that were infested thereby When our Friends have been solemnly met together in his Name and Fear in Fasting and Prayer to wait upon and worship him And that such Unclean Spirit did not enter them in such Assemblies as ours but when they were Followers of the Envious Persecuting Priests who used to Revile and Rail against the Quakers in their Pulpits and of such Malicious Preachers as these Anabaptists who as persons possessed with a Lying Unclean Spirit are now still foaming out their own Shame and Malice against an Innocent People as these Men have done in their Lying Abusive Pamphlet falsly pretending to Unmask Antichrist in Spirit whilst their Work of Malice and Falshood bespeaks Antichrist in their proud puft up envious Flesh and Fleshly Minds scurrilously perverting our Words detracting and defaming others more Harmless than themselves and no whit inferior to them as Men in Education Parts or Morals And I hope we are and shall be of more Credit and Reputation in what we solemnly declare and write than they in falsly telling the World That 't is nothing so believed by us as pretended in our Pamphlet meaning that Paper concerning our Christianity which they not being able to refute now falsly tell People That 't is nothing so believed by us as Henry Loader and William Alcott have unjustly done in their Epistle to the Reader though they are so credulous of their Brother Edward Paye's Work or Pamphlet as to Believe neither Ambition Self-Interest or Prejudice moved him to it but purely the Honour of God Defence of Truth and Good of Souls And they also Hope and Believe that he hath been careful truly to cite the Quakers own Authors But we know the contrary and that he hath both falsly cited grosly belyed and perverted the Quaker's Words and Authors and taken many false Things on Credit and in their Implicit Faith not only the said Story from the Westmorland Petitioners but also out of his

above all Heavens that he might fill all Things And that by his Suffering and Sacrifice he hath obtained Eternal Redemption for us which through Faith in his Name and Power true Repentance and Conversion we livingly receive and effectually partake of That we are not Pardoned Justified Redeemed or Saved by our own Righteteousness Works Merits or Deservings but by the Righteousness Merits and Works of this our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being both imparted and imputed to us as he is of God made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Our Reconciliation Redemption Pardon Sanctification and Justification having respect both to his suffering Death and Blood upon the Cross As the one Peace Offering and Sacrifice and as our High Priest thereby making Attonement and Reconciliation for us and giving himself a Ransom for all Mankind And also to the effectual saving Work of his Grace and good Spirit within us bringing us to experience true Repentance Regeneration and the new Birth wherein we partake of the Fellowship of Christ's Sufferings and Power of his Resurrection In which Grace we ought to persevere in newness of Life and faithful Obedience unto him unto the end that we may be Heirs of the Eternal Salvation which Christ is the Author of We sincerely Believe also That the Man Christ Jesus is the only Mediator between God and Men our Intercessor and Advocate with the Father and that he exerciseth his Kingly Office and his Priestly and Prophetical Office in his Kingdom and Church here on Earth wherein he Governs and plentifully affords both Immediate Inspiration and Instruction to his Faithful Followers who walk in his Light to guide them into all Truth and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his And that this same Lord Jesus Christ who dyed for all Men enlightens every Man coming into the World and was and is the Light of the World the Way the Truth and the Life and that the same Christ that was Crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh and quickned by the Spirit and Power of the Father he is Inwardly Revealed and Spiritually in the Hearts of True and Spiritual Believers by his Holy Spirit Life Light and Grace And that therefore his coming and appearing Outwardly in the Flesh and Inwardly in the Spirit cannot render him two Christs but one and the same very Christ of God blessed for evermore Also the saving Baptism which is that of the Spirit and the Lord's Supper in his Church and Kingdom we believe and receive in him the Substance Spiritually not apprehending our selves bound to remain under any outward Shadow or Type thereof in the clear Gospel-day of Christ The Immortality of the Soul of Man being Created in God's own Image and Inspired by him that formed Man And the Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgment And that every Man shall be reserved in his own distinct Being for his due and future Reward the Wicked unto the Day of Judgment Destruction and Wrath but the Righteous unto Eternal Life and Glory in their Spiritual Bodies like unto Christ's Glorious Body where they shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven These Things we sincerely Believe and Profess according to Holy Scripture-Testimony and as set forth therein as the Lord is pleased to give us Understanding thereof Being ready and willing to give more large Account and Demonstration of our Holy and Christian Profession as the Lord shall lay a necessity upon us And our Belief and Profession of these Matters is not new to us but according to that Light and Understanding we have received of the Lord and believed from the Beginning since we were a Suffering People gathered by him as also divers of our Ancient Friend's Ministry Books and Writings do more fully signifie and demonstrate POSTSCRIPT To evince with what Consciences these Anabaptists E. Paye W. Alcott and H. L. have writ against the Quakers pray observe these two or three Instances more 1. E. P. c. p. 46. read p. 6 7. Saul's Errand to Damascus And G. Fox takes the Name to himself saying He is the Eternal Judge of Quick and Dead Answ This is notoriously false in Fact being in the very same Book Saul's Errand recorded among those Matters Falsly charged on G. F. by his Adversaries the Priests and others in the County of Lancaster in their Petition p. 1 2 3 4 5 6. of Saul's Errand where G. F. opposeth and answereth their Objections 2. E. P. c. p. 29. That they meaning the Quakers say That Christ hath no Body but his Church Quoting Saul's Errand p. 9. Answ Which is notoriously false again For it was the said Priest's Objection against L. F. that he professed That Christ had never any Body but his Church Saul 's Errand p. 2. Which was also false and there recorded among their other false Charges objected tho' in the Answer it is confessed That Christ's Church is his Body 'T is also confessed That we are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones Which grants his particular Body and his Churches Union therewith Therefore far from such Profession as That Christ had never any Body but his Church E. P. c. p. 59. See Parnell 's Shield of Truth p. 12. Where he calls Water-Baptism a formal Invention and Imitation of Men and so a meer Delusion Answ This James Parnell speaks not of Water-Baptism without Distinction as they state it against him for he saith it was a Figure meaning as John and the Disciples used it but of Sprinkling Infants as he saith He received Water upon his Face as his Parents told him This he calls an Invention of Men and so do Baptists I think p. 67 68. Collection of J. P. 's VVritings Thus Immorral and Unjust are these Anabaptists in writing against us FINIS