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A87653	The Christian faith of the people of God, called in scorn, Quakers in Rhode-Island (who are in unity with all faithfull brethren of the same profession in all parts of the world) vindicated from the calumnies of Christian Lodowick, that formerly was of that profession, but is lately fallen there-from. As also from the base forgeries, and wicked slanders of Cotton Mather, called a minister, at Boston, who hath greatly commended the said Christian Lodowick, and approved his false charges against us, and hath added thereunto many gross, impudent and vile calumnies against us and our brethren, in his late address, so called, to some in New-England, the which in due time may receive a more full answer, to discover his ignorance, prejudice and perversion against our friends in general, and G.K. in particular, whom he hath most unworthily abused. : To which is added, some testimonies of our antient friends to the true Christ of God; collected out of their printed books, for the further convincing of our opposers, that it is (and hath been) our constant and firm belief to expect salvation by the man Christ Jesus that was outwardly crucified without the gates of Jerusalem.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Bradford, William, 1663-1752.; Thurstan, Edward.; Bull, Henry.; Bull, Anne.	1692 (1692)	Wing K151; ESTC W9990	12,798	20

THE Christian Faith Of the People of GOD called in Scorn QUAKERS In Rhode-Island who are in Unity with all faithfull Brethren of the same Profession in all parts of the World VINDICATED From the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick that formerly was of that Profession but is lately fallen there-from As also from the base Forgeries and wicked Slanders of Cotton Mather called a Minister at Boston who hath greatly commended the said Christian Lodowick and approved his false Charges against us and hath added thereunto many gross impudent and vile Calumnies against us and our Brethren in his late Address so called to some in New-England the which in due time may receive a mo●e full answer to discover his Ignorance Prejudice and Perversion against our Friends in general and G. K. in particular whom he hath most unworthily abused To which is added some Testimonies of our Antient Friends to the true Christ of God Collected out of their printed Books for the further Convincing of our Opposers that it is and hath been our constant and firm Belief to expect Salvation by the Man Christ Jesus that was outwardly crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem Printed and Sold by William Bradford at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania in the Year 1692. Our Sincere Christian Belief is plainly asserted in the following Particulars viz. 1. Concerning Jesus of Nazareth the true Christ of God as he is True and Perfect God and True Perfect Man 2. Concerning his Conception Birth Life Death and Sufferings Resurrection Ascention Intercession and Coming again and Appearance to Judge the Quick and the Dead at the Day of Judgment in his glorified Body And the Resurrection of the Dead at what Time attained 3. Concerning his being a most acceptible Offering and Sacrifice to God for the sins of the whole World 4. Concerning the True Faith in Christ how it respecteth him both as without us in the Fullness and as within us in the Measure whole undivided being one Lord Jesus Christ 5. Concerning the Distinction betwixt the devout Gentile and Christian and how the Christian Dispensation far excelleth that of either Jews or Gentiles and the Dignity of Christianity above the most Refined and Devout Gentilism 6. Concerning a twofold inward Ministration of the Light and Spirit of God and Christ and the state of Servants and Sons 7. Concerning the great Benefit of the holy Scriptures and how they are made Instrumental to our Christian Faith and Knowledge 8. And lastly Concerning the Possibility of the Salvation of Honest and Conscientious Gentiles by Jesus Christ. The Christian Faith of the People of God called Quakers Vindicated from the Calumnies of Christian Lodowick WHereas Christian Lodowick hath given forth several Papers Challenging all these belonging to Newport Meeting who speak in the Meetings of the People called Quakers and that within these few dayes past he hath renewed his Challenge accusing the Fo●ndation of their Gospel Faith Doctrine and Religion to be unscriptural false and naught shaken and Sandy and challanging them to appoint one of their Number to dispute with him These are to give Notice to all sober People and Neighbours that these so challenged by him having taken his Challenge into consideration and finding many things in it falsly and perversly stated which they could not own so stated by him to be the Foundation of their Faith c. did meet with him at the House of Walter Clark in Newport in Rhode-Island the 18th of the 4th Month 1691. in order to have things fairly stated that if any did dispute with him they might know before hand what he was to dispute against but they could not procure him to allow of this but after that some of the things charged by him in his Papers began to be discoursed of in order to a fair and right stating of them he would not hear of it but went away And whereas divers of us challenged by him declared sincerely before many People there assembled on the said day their sincere Faith as concerning the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth and what the holy Scriptures testifie of him yet he did continue to accuse them still as Denying the True Christ alledging they had another S●nce than the Scripture words did bear and that his Sence was True but their Sence was False appealing to their Consciences whether it was not so Thus making himself Judge over our secret Thoughts as having a secret sence in our Thoughts of Scripture words contrary to the true sence of them though we have not given him o● any other occasion to judge so rashly and uncharitably of us and our Consciences bear us witness in the sight of God that we do sincerely believe and think as we speak when we say according to the holy Scripture That Jesus of Nazareth is the true Christ of God and the only true Saviour and there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby men must be saved and that this same Jesus was in fullness of Time born of the Virgin called Mary being conceived of the holy Ghost who dyed for our sins and rose again for our Justification and by his Death on the Tree of the Cross was a most acceptable Offering and Sacrifice to God for the sins of the whole World having tasted Death for every m●n and given himself a Ransom for all And we believe that Christ was God manifest in the Flesh even in that Body of Flesh in which he did suffer Death on the Cross and that the fullness of the Godhead dwelt Bodily in him and doth still dwell Bodily in him and that of his Fullness we all receive and Grace for Grace And we also believe according to holy Scripture that Christ's Body that was crucified on the Tree of the Cross was raised again on the third day and after forty dayes did ascend into Heaven in the sight of the Disciples and who is exalted at the right Hand of God and ever liveth to make Intercession for us and that Christ hath his Body in Heaven a most glorious Body not changed in Being or Substance but in Condition Manner of Being and that Christ is true and perfect God and true and perfect Man the Son of God begotten of God from Everlasting glorified with the Father before the World began and also begotten of God in the Womb of the Virgin called Mary and born of her in the fullness of time the Son of Abraham the Son of David who took not on him the Nature of A●gels but the Seed of A●raham and which he still hath and that Christ as Man hath both Soul and Body and his Manhood is most excellently and ●o●de●fully United with h●s Godhead yet his Manhood is not his Godhead no● is his Body that he had of the Virgin and now ha●h in Heaven his Godhead but the Temple of it as Christ called his Body the Temple and is the Garment or Cloathing wherewith the Eternal Word did cloathe himself who is that New and living Way

dead dyeth no more Death hath no more dominion over him his dying was only as to the Body he was put to Death as concerning the Flesh therefore the Flesh was raised from the dead And it is so far circumscribed or encompassed in the Heavens as 't is capable of and as is proper to it and tho' it be spiritual and glorious yet a Body and therefore not in every place where God is To be Omnipresent is only proper to God and not to Bodies Q. How do they but deny the Manhood o● Christ that say the Body of Jesus is changed as to Substance and his Soul is in every Saint Answ 1st They do not deny the Manhood of Christ that say his Body is changed as to the Quality and Glory of it that it is a spiritual glorious Body in a higher state than when on Earth under Sufferings This is no annihilating of the Body 2ly That his Soul doth powerfully extend to and is in every Saint in some sence and degree This must needs be if it act tog●ther in Union with the Deity in perfecting all good in us as our Adversary has confessed as also that it is virtually in the Saints Tho' we grant that it is in more fullness in himself than in as yet of his fullness have we all received Q. They own they say the real Birth Sufferings and Resurrection of Christ but do they own his Intercession in his Manhood as an high Priest in Heaven Ans Yes we do he is entred into Heaven it self to appear in the face of God for us Note That we referred him for a more full answer than we have given about Christs Manhood to a Book entituled The Way cast Vp by G. Keith The real Quaker a real Protestant by G Whitehead p. 105 106. Priest says That two of his Neighbour Quakers told him That Christs Body did vanish at his ascention and that now he hath no other Flesh or Body but the Flesh or Body of his People Ans I deny it to be the Quakers mind that Christs Body did vanish so as to become annihilated at his ascention 't was changed and more glorified but not vanisht I am sensible that none in their right understanding or sence would give him any such mistaken answer or account concerning the Body of Christ that it so vnnisht as to become annihilated Christ has a glorious Body most near and proper to himself above and more excellent than all our earthly Bodies like unto which he will change our low humble Bodies P. 119. Christ hath a true and spiritual glorious Body whereof the Saints are Members Pag. 108. Pr. The Qrs. do believe that Christ God Man did never purchase the Redemption of any sinners by the price of his own Blood Ans We believe that Christ as Mediator hath obtain'd eternal Redemption for us and that by his own Blood that we might be sanctified redeemed from all Iniquity for which end he gave himself for us Pr. The Qrs. believe that deliverance from Condemnation is not by believing in Christ who dyed to save Sinners but by obeying the Light within Answ This is a Forgery again Christ his Light within are not to be divided in matter of Faith or Salvation We never opposed Christ who dyed for Sinners or Faith in his Name by believing or obeying the Light within Judgment fixt by G. Whitehead in answer to Jeffery Bullock viz. You Quakers do preach both Salvation and Justification and also Condemnation by the man Christ the Son of God as other Professions do and this Doctrine I would have you to prove because you preach Salvation by Christ the Light within It is no where written that we shall either be justified or condemned by that Christ which dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem but it is written by Grace are ye saved and by the Light of the World are ye condemned c. Ans Thou that canst not reconcile or see the consistency of Salvation by the Man Christ Jesus And by his Light within art gone from his Light into Imaginations Why hast thou not better observ'd the Gospel preacht by the Angel of the Lord to the Shepherds concerning Christ Jesus For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. The true Christ of God is but one tho' he hath appeared in divers manners both in the Flesh and in the Spirit he is the Light he is the Way to the Father he is the Saviour he is the one Mediator between God and Man even the Man Christ Jesus the heavenly glorious Man the Man that was promised to be for a hiding place who in the days of his flesh said I am the Light of the World This our one Lord Jesus Christ is our Light Life and Salvation he is Judge of quick and dead that Man by whom God will judge the World in Righteousness See also Tit. 2.11 where the saving Grace of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity c. are testified of therefore Salvation by that Christ through hi● Grace are not inconsistent pag. 326. Flesh Blood of Christ by I Pennington Preface I have often heard them the Quakers own Christ both inwardly outwardly yea I heard one of the Antients of them thus testifie in a publick Meeting many years since That if Christ had not come in the Flesh in the fullness of time to bear our sins in his own Body on the Tree and to offer himself up a Sacrifice for Mankind all mankind had utterly perished p. 16. Glorious was that appearance and manifestation of his Son in the flesh precious his Subjection holy Obedience to the Father His giving himself up to death for sinners was of great esteem in his Eye It was a spotless Sacrifice of great value and effectual for the Remission of sins and I do humbly acknowledge unto the Lord the Remission of my sins thereby Rob. Barclay's Apology p. 94 95 96. We do not intend to equal our selves to that holy Man the Lord Jesus Christ in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily nor to destroy the reality of his present existence for tho' we affi●m that Christ dwells in us yet not immediately but mediately he is the Head and we the Members now as the Soul of man dwells other ways and in a far more immediate manner in the Head and Heart than in the hands or legs so God dwelleth otherwise in the Man Jesus than in us We also freely reject the Heresie of Appollonarius who deny'd him to have any Soul but said the Body was only acted by the Godhead As also the Error of Euryches who made the Manhood to be wholly swallowed up of the Godhead wherefore as we believe he was a true and real man so we also believe that he continues so to be glorified in the Heavens in Soul and Body by whom God shall judge the World in the Great and General Day of judgment We believe all those things to have been certainly transacted which are recorded in the holy Scriptures concerning the Birth Life Miracles Sufferings Resurrection Ascention of Christ and we also believe that it is the Duty of every one to believe it to whom it pleases God to reveal it yea we believe it were Damnable Vnbelief not to believe when so declared And we believe that the Remission of sins which any partake of is only in and by virtue of that most satisfactory Sacrifice and no otherwise His Vindication of Apology p. 89. I do believe that the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was crucified at Jerusalem was again raised by the Power of God in which glorified Body the Lord Jesus Christ dwelleth Pag. 189. We are falsly charged with denying the outward appearance of Christ the real existence of Heaven and Hell as a place without us the Last and General Judgment the Resurrection of the Body for we really believe these things Much more might have been cited out of the Writings of our Antient Friends but this may suffice at this time to convince our Opposers that it hath been and is the firm Belief of the People call'd Quakers to expect Salvation by the Man Christ Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary was crucified for our sins and rose again for our Justification ascended into Heaven and ever liveth to make Intercession for us Faithfully Collected and Recommended to purusal by Will. Bradford FINIS