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A62667	The Quakers apostasie from the perfect rule of the scriptures discovered in a double reply to a twofold answer of theirs, in the vindication of several queries propounded by the author : wherein their deceits, blasphemies and reproches against scripture authority and ordinances of institute religious worship, are spoken unto, their main principles examined and denyed, the truth defended and cleared against their railing, slandering, censorious pens and tongues / by John Timson ...	Timson, John.	1656 (1656)	Wing T1295; ESTC R21114	77,026	109

by him because his appointing means and blessing them to that end was that which did the work as severall Texts doth witness in the writings of the Apostles Act. 11.15.17 18. who concluding Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life and this was wrought by the ministry of the word by Peter Act. 13.46.47 It was necessary that the word of God should first be preached to the Jewes but they rejecting it lo we turn to the Gentiles for so hath the Lord ordained us saying I have set thee to be a light to the Gentiles that thou shouldest be for salvation to the ends of the earth Paul and Barnabas attributing that to Christ which was to be done by their ministry by his Authority and command Act. 15.14 15 16 17 19. Peter hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name as it is written in the Prophets that the residue of men might seek after the Lord and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called saith the Lord. Wherefore my sentence is saith James that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God and how were they turned to God Not by a light immediate as the Quakers would but by the ministry of the word as further appears Act. 26.17 18. as is witnessed by the Apostle Paul which received it from Christ himself Christ promised to appear unto him delivering him from the people and from the Gentiles unto whom I now send thee to open their eyes and to turn them from darknesse to light and from the power of Satan unto God that they may receive forgivenesse of sins and in he itance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me working in them the same faith by the word on which forgiveness and eternal life only depend that is faith in Christ To open the blind eyes of the Gentile world that were darknesse it self and turn them to the true light is the only work of Jesus Christ as he is God and yet Paul as he was made a Minister of the Gentiles he was sent to do it by the preaching of the Gospell and the Lord wrought wonderfully by his ministry to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed Rom. 15.18 19. How many Churches of the Gentiles were gathered by the Preaching of the Gospel came under Baptisme and all other known duties of Christian obedience Was not Christ a light to all these beleeving Gentiles in granting them repentance unto life as I quoted before As for the other Gentiles which never heard of Christ or hearing of him rejected him they remained Aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel without Christ and Covenant of promise and hope and God in the world having their understandings darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnesse of their hearts Ephes 2.12 4.18 But on the other hand how doth the Apostle admire and wonder at those unsearchable riches of Grace to the Gentiles that beleeved in Christ Jesus Ye who were sometimes far off are made high by the bloud of Jesus therefore now ye are no more strangers and foreiners but fellow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the chief corner-stone in whom all the building fitly framed together Jewes and Gentiles groweth unto an holy Temple in the Lord. Hence see what that building is of whom Christ is said to be the chief Corner-stone not the profane building of the pagan unbelieving world that are built upon the Devill and the vain imaginations of their dark minds as you have●●t ●●ard these Quakers blasphemingly apply this text but Believers be they Jewes or Gentiles that are built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles to them only is Christ the chief Corner-stone chap. 2.19 20 21. If they have ears to hear let them hear what the Spirit hath said unto the Churches and in particular how Christ Jesus hath enlightened and grafted the believing Gentiles into his visible professing Church and made them a peculiar chosen people to himself distinct and separate from the heathen Idolatrous world But it seems they are angry because in my reply I told them it will pose them to prove that that righteous and perfect Law of God in their hearts they so much pretended to to be of God and not from their idle brains And good cause there was that they should be put to the proof thereof they answering so deceitfully and subtilly about the Authority of Scriptures as I have sufficiently discovered Besides I bid them tell me plainly whether the perfect Law of the heart to which all their obedience is bounded be the same perfect Law of God which the holy Scriptures teach consisting of precepts morall and positive Institutions of holy Worship in force in the Apostolicall Churches c. Or whether is the Law in the heart different from it If say I that in the heart be but the very same with the whole of Scriptures then it will follow that the perfect Law and Rule of Scriptures is superfluous and writ in vain Then on the other hand if that in their heart be different from the Scriptures it concerns them to prove it to be of God and not from their idle brains To that purpose I writ Their Answer is We speak in plainnesse as the Law of God written in our hearts directeth us which Law we know is perfect and a blessing of the everlasting Covenant which thou talkest of but knowest not being disobedient and abominable c. Answ 1. What may we judge of that Law that accuseth another to be disobedient and abominable for proposing rational queries and demanding proof of what they assert 2. Is their saying they know they have the perfect Law of God in their hearts a satisfying proof Judge ye But 3. If this Law be but a blessing of the Covenant then it is not the eternall word that made the world as before they Answer upon the like occasion upon the first Question unlesse they will confound God that gives the blessing and the blessing given into one Well they take it for granted in stead of proof That the perfect Law of God is written in their hearts by which they judge my error who am pleading for that Law to be the ground of the Saints obedience that made nothing perfect say they This is notable Did I ever plead for that Law of Priesthood that were exercised in the sacrificing beasts sprinklings of blood which were but types of Christ the bringer in of a better hope Heb. 7. I say did I ever plead this Law of Ceremonies which were but a shadow of good things to come the ground of the Saints obedience Let them produce it or else cease thus to abuse me with lying words But if they will wickedly pervert