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A54196	Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers written, in testimony to the present dispensation of God, through them, to the world, that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-enclined encouraged, and the truth and its innocent Friends, rightly represented / by William Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1696 (1696)	Wing P1342; ESTC R15209	43,826	145

Grace being received and obeyed by us he overcomes him in us That is he detects the Enemy by his Light in the Conscience and enables the Creature to resist him and all his Fiery Darts and finally so to Fight the Good Fight of Faith as to overcome him and lay hold on Eternal Life § 4. And this is the Dispensation of Grace which we declare has appeared to all more or less teaching those that will receive it to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World looking for which none else can justly do the blessed Hope and glorious Appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ c. Tit. 2. 11 12 13. And as from the Teachings and Experience and Motion of this Grace we minister to others so the very drift of our Ministry is to turn Peoples Minds to this Grace in themselves that they may all up and be doing even the good and acceptable Will of God and work out their Salvation with fear and trembling and make their High and Heavenly Calling and Election sure which none else can do whatever be their Profession Church and Character For such as Men sow they must reap and his Servants we are whom we obey Regeneration we must know or we cannot be Children of God and Heirs of Eternal Glory And to be Born again an other Spirit and Principle must prevail leaven season and govern us then either the Spirit of the World or our own depraved Spirits and this can be no other Spirit than that which dwelt in Christ for unless that dwell in us we can be none of his Rom. 8. 9. And this Spirit begins in Conviction and ends in Conversion and Perseverance And the one follows the other Conversion being the Consequence of Convictions obey'd and Perseverance a natural Fruit of Conversion and being Born of God for such Sin not because the Seed of God abides in them John 3. 7 8. but through Faithfulness continue to the end and obtain the Promise even Everlasting Life § 5. But let my Reader take this along with him that we do acknowledge that Christ through his Holy Doing and Suffering for being a Son he learned Obedience has obtained Mercy of God his Father for Mankind and that his Obedience has an Influence to our Salvation in all the Parts and Branches of it since thereby he became a Conqueror and led Captivity Captive and obtained Gifts for Men with divers Great and Precious Promises that thereby we might be partakers of the Divine Nature having first escaped the Corruption that is in the World through Lust I say we do Believe and Confess that the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ Jesus affects our Salvation throughout as well from the Power and Pollution of Sin as from the Guilt He being a Conqueror as well as a Sacrifice and both through Suffering Yet they that reject his Divine Gift so obtained and which he has given to them by which to see their Sin and the sinfulness of it and to repent and turn away from it and do so no more and to wait upon God for daily strength to resist the Fiery Darts of the Enemy and to be Comforted through the Obedience of Faith in and to this Divine Grace of the Son of God such do not please God believe truly in God nor are they in a state of true Christianity and Salvation Woman said Christ to the Samaritan at the Well hadst thou known the Gift of God and who it is that speaketh to thee c. People know not Christ and God whom to know is Life Eternal John 17. because they are Ignorant of the Gift of God viz. a measure of the Spirit of God that is given to every one to profit with 1 Cor. 12. 7. which reveals Christ and God to the Soul Flesh and Blood cannot do it Oxford and Cambridge cannot do it Tongues and Philosophy cannot do it for they that by Wisdom knew not God had these things for their Wisdom They were strong deep and accurate in them but alas they were clouded puft up and set farther off from the Inward and Saving Knowledge of God because they sought for it in them and thought to find God there But the Key of David is an other thing which shuts and no Man opens and opens and no Man shuts and this Key have all they that receive the Gift of God into their Hearts and it opens to them the Knowledge of God and themselves and gives them a quite other Sight Taste and Judgment of things than their Educational or Traditional Knowledge afforded them This is the beginning of the New Creation of God and thus it is we come to be New Creatures And we are bold to declare there is no other way besides this by which People can come into Christ or to be true Christians or receive the Advantage that comes by the Death and Sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ Wherefore we say and upon good Authority even that of our own Experience as well as that of the Scriptures of Truth Christ will prove no Saving Sacrifice for them that refuse him for their Example They that reject the Gift do deny the Giver instead of themselves daily for the Givers sake O that People were wise that they would consider their latter End and the things that make for the Peace thereof Why should they perish in a vain hope of Life while Death Reigns Of living with God who live not to him nor walk with him Awake thou that sleepest in thy Sin or at best in thy Self-righteousness Awake I say and Christ shall give thee Life For he is the Lord from Heaven the quickening Spirit that quickens us by his Spirit if we do not resist it and quench it by our Disobedience but receive love and obey it in all the Holy Leadings and Teachings of it Rom. 8. 14 15. To which Holy Spirit I commend my Reader that he may the better see where he is and also come to the true Belief and Advantage of the Doings and Sufferings of our Dear and Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who saves from the Power and Pollution as well as Guilt of Sin all those that hear his knocks and open the Door of their Hearts to him that he may come in and work a real and through Reformation in and for them And so the Benefit Virtue and Efficacy of his Doings and Sufferings without us will come to be livingly applied and felt and Fellowship with Christ in his Death and Sufferings known according to the Doctrine of the Apostle which those that live in that which made him suffer know not tho' they profess to be saved by his Death and Sufferings Much more might be said as to this matter but I must be brief § 6. To conclude this Chapter we wonder not that we should be mistaken mis-construed and mis-represented in what we believe and do to Salvation since our Betters have

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general an Unhappiness among the Professors of Christianity that they are apt to cloak their own Active and Passive Disobedience with the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ The first part of Justification we do reverently and humbly acknowledge is only for the sake of the Death and Sufferings of Christ nothing we can do though by the Operation of the Holy Spirit being able to cancel Old Debts or wipe out Old Scores It is the Power and Efficacy of that Propitiatory Offering upon Faith and Repentance that justifies us from the Sins that are past and it is the Power of Christ's Spirit in our Hearts that purifies and makes us acceptable before God For till the Heart of Man is purged from Sin God will never accept of it He Reproves Rebukes and Condemns those that entertain Sin there and therefore such cannot be said to be in a Justified State Condemnation and Justification being Contraries So that they that hold themselves in a Justified State by the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ while they are not Actively and Passively Obedient to the Spirit of Christ Jesus are under a strong and dangerous Delusion and for crying out against this Sin-pleasing Imagination not to say Doctrine we are Staged and Reproached as Deniers and Despisers of the Death and Sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ But be it known to such they add to Christ's Sufferings and Crucifie to themselves afresh the Son of God and trample the Blood of the Covenant under their Feet that walk unholily under a Profession of Justification for God will not acquit the Guilty nor justifie the Disobedient and Unfaithful Such deceive themselves and at the Great and Final Judgment their Sentence will not be Come ye Blessed because it cannot be said to them Well done Good and Faithful for they cannot be so esteemed that live and die in a Reproveable and Condemnable State but Go ye Cursed c. § 5. Wherefore O my Reader Rest not thy self wholly satisfied with what Christ has done for thee in his Blessed Person without Thee but press to know his Power and Kingdom within thee that the strong Man that has too long kept thy House may be bound and his Goods spoiled his Works destroyed and Sin ended according to the 1 John 3. 7. For which end says that Beloved Disciple Christ was manifested that all things may become New New Heavens and New Earth in which Righteousness dwells Thus thou wilt come to glorifie God in thy Body and in thy Spirit which are his and live to him and not to thy self Thy Love Joy Worship and Obedience thy Life Conversation and Practice thy Study Meditation and Devotion will be Spiritual For the Father and the Son will make their abode with thee and Christ will manifest himself to thee for the Secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him And an holy Vnction or Anointing have all those which leads them into all truth and they need not the Teachings of Men They are better Taught being Instructed by the Divine Oracle no bare Hear-say or Traditional Christians but fresh and living Witnesses Those that have seen with their own Eyes and heard with their own Ears and have handled with their own Hands the Word of Life in the divers Operations of it to their Souls Salvation In this they Meet in this they Preach and in this they Pray and Praise Behold the New Covenant fulfilled the Church and Worship of Christ the Great Anointed of God and the Great Anointing of God in his Holy High Priesthood and Offices in his Church CHAP. IX Sect. 1. A Confession to Christ and his Work both in Doing and Suffering Sect. 2. That ought not to make void our Belief and Testimony of his Inward and Spiritual Appearance in the Soul Sect. 3. What our Testimony is in the latter respect That 't is impossible to be Saved by Christ Without us while we reject his Work and Power Within us Sect. 4. The Dispensation of Grace in its Nature and Extent Sect. 5. A further Acknowledgment to the Death and Sufferings of Christ Sect. 6. The Conclusion shewing our Adversaries Vnreasonableness § 1. AND lest any should say we are Equivocal in our Expressions and Allegorize away Christ's Appearance in the Flesh meaning only thereby our own Flesh and that as often as we mention him we mean only a Mystery or a Mystical Sense of him be it as to his Coming Birth Miracles Sufferings Death Resurrection Ascention Mediation and Judgment I would yet add to preserve the well-disposed from being stagger'd by such Suggestions and to inform and reclaim such as are under the Power and Prejudice of them That we do we Bless God Religiously Believe and Confess to the Glory of God the Father and the Honour of his Dear and Beloved Son that Jesus Christ took our Nature upon him and was like unto us in all things Sin excepted That he was Born of the Virgin Mary and Suffered under Pontius Pilate the Roman Governour Crucified Dead and Buried in the Sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea Rose again the Third Day and Ascended into Heaven and sits on the Right Hand of God in the Power and Majesty of his Father who will one Day Judge the World by him even that Blessed Man Christ Jesus according to their Works § 2. But because we so Believe must we not Believe what Christ said He that is with you shall be in you John 14. I in them and they in me c. Chap. 17. When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me c. Gal. 1. The Mystery hid from Ages is Christ in the Gentiles the hope of Glory Col. 1. Vnless Christ be in you ye are Reprobates 2 Cor. 13. Or must we be industriously represented Deniers of Christ's Coming in the Flesh and the Holy Ends of it in all the Parts and Branches of his Doing and Suffering because we Believe and press the Necessity of Believing Receiving and Obeying his Inward and Spiritual Appearance and Manifestation of himself through his Light Grace and Spirit in the Hears and Consciences of Men and Women to Reprove Convict Convert and Change them This we esteem hard and unrighteous Measure nor would our warm and sharp Adversaries be so dealt with by others But to do as they would be done to is too often no part of their Practice whatever it be of their Profession § 3. Yet we are very ready to declare to the whole World that we cannot think Men and Women can be saved by their Belief of the one without the Sense and Experience of the other and that is what we oppose and not his Blessed Manifestation in the Flesh We say that he then overcame our Common Enemy foil'd him in the open Field and in our Nature triumphed over him that had overcome and triumphed over it in our Forefather Adam and his Posterity and that as truly as Christ overcame him in our Nature in his own Person so by his Divine

it is that Conformity that gives Communion and there is no fellowship with God no Light of his Countenance to be enjoyed no Peace and Assurance to be had further than there is Obedience to his Will and a Faithfulness to his Word according to the Manifestation of the Light thereof in the Heart I say this is the truest and highest State of Worship for Set Days and Places with all the Solemnity of them were most in Request in the weakest Dispensation Altars Ark and Temples Sabbaths and Festivals c. are not to be found in the Writings of the New Testament There every Day 's alike and every Place is alike but if there were a Dedication let it be to the Lord. Thus the Apostle but he plainly shews a State beyond it for to Live with him was Christ and to Dye was Gain for the Life he Lived was by the Faith of the Son of God and therefore it was not he that Lived but Christ that Lived in him that is that Ruled Conducted and bore Sway in him which is the true Christian Life the Supersensual Life the Life of Conversion and Regeneration to which all the Dispensations of God and Ministry of his Servants have ever tended as the Consummation of God's Work for Man's Happiness Here every Man 's a Temple and every Family a Church and every Place is a Meeting-Place and every Visit a Meeting And yet a little while and it shall be so yet more and more and a People the Lord is now Preparing to enter into this Sabbath or Degree of Rest Not that we would be thought to undervalue Publick and Solemn Meetings We have them all over the Nations where the Lord has called us Yea tho' but Two or Three of us be in a Corner of a County we meet as the Apostle Exhorted the Saints of his time and Reproved such as Neglected to Assemble themselves But yet shew we unto thee O Reader a more excellent Way of Worship For many may come to those Meetings and go away Carnal Dead and Dry but the Worshippers in Spirit and in Truth whose Hearts Bow whose Minds Adore the Eternal God that is a Spirit in and by his Spirit such as conform to his Will and walk with him in a Spiritual Life they are the True Constant Living and Acceptable Worshippers whether it be in Meetings or out of Meetings And as with such all outward Assemblies are greatly Comfortable so also do we meet for a Publick Testimony of Religion and Worship and for the Edification and Encouragement of those that are yet Young in the Truth and to Call and Gather others to the knowledge of it who are yet going astray and Blessed be God it is not in vain since many are thereby added to the Church that we hope and believe shall be Saved CHAP. XI Sect. 1. Against Tythes Sect. 2. Against all Swearing Sect. 3. Against War among Christians Sect. 4. Against Salutation of the Times Sect. 5. And for Plainness of Speech Sect. 6. Against mixt Marriages Sect. 7. And for plainness in Apparel c. no Sports and Pastimes after the manner of this World Sect. 8. Of Observing Days Sect. 9. Of Care of Poor Peace and Conversation § 1. AND as God has been pleased to call us from an Human Ministry so we cannot for Conscience-sake Support and Maintain it and upon that Score and not out of Humour or Covetousness we refuse to pay Tithes or such-like pretended Dues concerning which many Books have been writ in our Defence We cannot Support what we cannot Approve but have a Testimony against for thereby we should be found Inconsistent with our selves § 2. We dare not Swear because Christ forbids it Mat. 5. 34 37. and James his true follower It is Needless as well as Evil for the reason of Swearing being Vntruth that Men's Yea was not Yea Swearing was used to awe Men to Truth Speaking and to give others Satisfaction that what was Sworn was true But the true Christians Yea being Yea the end of an Oath is answered and therefore the use of it is Needless Superfluous and cometh of Evil. The Apostle James Taught the same Doctrine and the Primitive Christians Practised it as may be seen in the Book of Martyrs as also the earliest and best of the Reformers § 3. We also believe that War ought to cease among the followers of the Lamb Christ Jesus who taught his Disciples to forgive and love their Enemies and not to War against them and kill them and that therefore the Weapons of his true Followers are not Carnal but Spiritual yet mighty through God to cut down Sin and Wickedness and Dethrone him that is the Author thereof And as this is the most Christian so the most Rational Way Love and Perswasion having more Force than Weapons of War Nor would the worst of Men easily be brought to hurt those that they really think love them 'T is that Love and Patience must in the end have the Victory § 4. We dare not give worldly Honour or use the Frequent and Modish Salutations of the Times seeing plainly that Vanity Pride and Ostentation belong to them Christ also forbid them in his Day and made the Love of them a Mark of Declension from the Simplicity of purer times and his Disciples and their Followers were observed to have obeyed their Masters Precept It is not to Distinguish our selves a Party or out of Pride Ill-breeding or Humour but in Obedience to the Sight and Sence we have received from the Spirit of Christ of the evil Rise and Tendency thereof § 5. For the same Reason we have returned to the first Plainness of Speech viz. Thou and Thee to a single Person which tho' Men give no other to God they will hardly endure it from us It has been a great Test upon Pride and shewn the Blind and weak Insides of many This also is out of pure Conscience whatever People may think or say of us for it We may be Despised and have been so often yea very evilly Entreated but we are now better known and People better Informed In short 't is also both Scripture and Grammar and we have Propriety of Speech for it as well as Peace in it § 6. We cannot allow of mix'd Marriages that is to joyn with such as are not of our Society but Oppose and Disown them if at any time any of our Profession so grosly err from the Rule of their Communion yet Restore them upon sincere Repentance but not disjoyn them The Book I writ of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers is more full and express herein § 7. Plainness in Apparel and Furniture is another Testimony peculiar to us in the degree we have bore it to the World As also few Words and being at a Word Likewise Temperance in Food and Abstinence from the Recreations and Pastimes of the World All which we have been taught by the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ