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A43112	Animadversions upon a late quibling libel from the Hartford Quakers, stiled, A testimony for the man Christ Jesus demonstrating that it is not the same true and real man Christ Jesus that they give testimony unto, but another false and feigned Jesus, or, A fresh and fuller draught of the same antidote, against the poyson presented in the whores golden cup / by Will. Haworth.	Haworth, William.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1194; ESTC R19450	28,927	32

sight but holds still that it 's solely and alone the Personal Righteousness of Jesus Christ the Son of God in his Active and Passive obedience whereby we are justified and accepted in the sight of an Infinitely pure and holy God who charged his Angels with folly Gal. 1.8 and if any man or Angel preach any other Gospel let him be accursed Thus as chast Virgins espoused we will not through Gods grace suffer our selves through the subtilty of the Serpent 2. Cor. 11.3 to have our minds corrupted from this singlenest that is in Christ in this great business of Justification this Article raigned in Luthers heart he said and I desire it should raign in my heart and it is as that great Patron of it against these Pharesaical Merit-mongers was wont to say the Article of the Churches standing or falling and how can he be a Christian that is not hearty in the belief of it though never more than at this day spoke against Christ in this day is a very great stumbling-stone to the Quakers and Socinians as he was to the Jews and Greeks of old it is no wonder the Quakers care not to have Christs Manhood maintained in its sameness truth and reality now carrying on the work of his Mediation in Heaven pleading the vertue of his Attonement when as they will not own the Righteousness which was wrought out in and by that blessed Manhood sixteen hundred Years since for the Justification of sinners They talk much of the works of the Spirit I would put a few Queries to them 1. Whether the works done by the Man Christ when on Earth here and the works he now doth in Heaven be not works done in the Spirit he had the Spirit and hath in without measure were not his works absolutely and compleatly perfect in Holiness he was a Lamb without spot there was no guil found in his mouth he pleased the Father in all things 2. I would ask whether there be any works done by the Spirit upon any of the sons of Men except Jesus Christ but there still remains a body of sin in them and whether there be any works done by us in the highest degree of the Spirit that any can attain to in this world but God can find some fault with them there is some defect and imperfection let them that dare deny that Scripture Eccless 7.20 There is not a just man upon Earth that doth good and sinneth not 3. If this be true which now of us are mad against the works of the Spirit we that honour these compleat works of the personal Obedience of Christ and receive them with thankfulness for our Justification according to the command of God in Scripture to believe and withall are glad that God works upon us by his Spirit to renew our evil natures after his own Image though it be but in part and that we are enabled by the same Spirit to shew forth any good works to his glory in our Conversation among men though they fall short of that which the holy Law requires and therefore we dare not plead them with God but daily prays for forgiveness in his Blood and that he would accept us not in this our own Righteousness within us or without us but in his Sons Personal Righteousness having union with him or they now on the other hand that are only and altogether for the works done in the spirit both for Justification as well as Sanctification though none of them can ever evince that these works are in every degree compleat and at the same time disown dispise contemn the compleat works of the Imputed Righteousness of Christ calling it a Doctrine of Devils which of us is mad against the works done in the Spirit Let the Reader judge What an unsavoury lorry do many of them make in the ears of Christians in their books and discourses saying and writing you look to be saved by a Righteousness wrought out sixteen hundred Years since and as far off as Jerusalem we cannot but pity their blindness and enmity to the Cross of Christ the Lord reveal his Sons Righteousness to them and make them ashamed of such kind of Pharisaical sayings as that of Bailies viz. if this be to make our own Righteousness stand speaking of the Righteousness of the Law then will we go about to make them stand if they would but remember that great instance given by Christ and consider it it s enough surely to silence them for ever in this matter Luke 18.9 He sp●ke this Parable to certain that trusted in themselves as being righteous and despised others vers 10. Two went up into the Temple to pray c. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself God I thank thee I am not as other men are extortioners unjust adulterers or even as this Publican I fast twice in the week I give Tithes of all that I possess Vers 13. And the Publican standing afar of would not lift up so much as his eyes to Heaven but smote upon his breast saying God be merciful to me a sinner Vers 14. I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other What is this instance of a Pharisee to a Quaker that speaks so much of the Spirit and the inward works of the Spirit Answ Did not the Pharisee think that he had the inward work of the Spirit Yet surely for he gives thanks to God that did inable him to be thus religious he acknowledged that all he had was the gift of God and did not in the least attribute it to his freewill might or power that he had made himself to differ that he did thus fast pray was thus just holy and zealous let is be weighed he was as confident as any Quaker or any other could be that his Righteousness was good of the right sort the Righteousness of the Spirit in that he durst plead it before the Lord for his acceptance yet what was the issue he was not accepted it was the humble sinner that was justified that applyed himself to the mercy of God in Christ Jesus but where do you at any time find this people acknowledge Grace Mercy Attonement confessing their sins with shame and humility are these in the way of Justification They will say why doest thou talk so of the Pharisees thinking he had the Spirit and the inward work thereof we know and are sure we have it are regenerated and act from thence in our lives and whilst it is so if there be any such thing as imputed Righteousness as we think there is not it s only an imagination of your own brains we shall have it for according to you they both go together Righteousness within and without I say to them with as great confidence and boldness and much better grounded that in case they go on thus they do manifestly declare that they have not neither ever had the right Spirit of Christ the Comforter for what

wise men it s said fell down and worshipped him when a Babe Matth. 8.2 The Leper worshipped him Matth. 9.18 There the Ruler worshipped him Matth. 14.33 They that were in the Ship upon his stilling the Storm worshipped him Matth. 15.25 The Women of Canaan worshipped him John 9.38 The blind man that Christ healed worshipped him After his Resurrection Mat. 28.9 They held him by the feet and worshipped him and the 17. vers And since his Ascension John worshipped him in the Visions he had and Rev. 5. The twenty four Elders yea and every Creature in its kind and way is said to worship the Lamb See what ingenous men these be to say my talk is unscriptural in pleading for the Humane Nature of Christ to be worshipped in conjunction with the Deity the foundation of the worship being the Deity neither is my talk uncouth but only to them that understand not the Christian Religion it is used by all the Christian Churches and by all Christian Writers that have written any thing of the Humane Nature of Christ especially if they have any contention with Socinians The same can I say of the other Property viz. That the Flesh of Christ giveth life to our Souls I have explained my self in that discourse in what way and manner it giveth life let them if they dare oppose it how unscriptural is this when as I there annexed John 6.53 Except ye eat my Flesh and drink my Blood ye have no life in you whenever Christ mentioneth his Flesh and Blood as here our judgement and belief is that he hath always respect to his Manhood and the benefits the Church hath by his Incarnation let them dare to contradict it and we say that this Flesh that gives life is himself the Manhood with the Deity is but one Person one Christ one Mediator and both are spoken in that place which they in their corrupt judgments alledge against us John 6.5 Pag. 13. robbing the Humanity of that which is due to it Now let us gather up all briefly without wronging them a title and you shall see what a strange Manhood it is that they have confessed to 1. Its according to them a Manhood that is no way the object of Sense cannot any way be seen felt or heard though it was both seen felt and heard after the Resurrection which was a glorified state 2. It is an Infinite Immense God not any where to be circumscribed it may be in a thousand times ten thousand of Saints at once 3. It is so thin subtle that it can penetrate doors Stone walls 4. It is informe hath no shape Figure Lineaments Countenance that is Humane 5. No one is to give any worship to it though in union with the Godhead 6. It is such a Manhood as did not die for Sinners nor doth not now intercede for Sinners For thus I argue according to what hath past if the Flesh of Christ hath not procured life for our Souls which they call'd unscriptural uncouth not to be taken notice of then did Christ never die for Sinners life for our Souls could no way be procured but by expiating and taking away the cause of death which was sin Now sin is no way expiated but by the death of Jesus Christ but Jesus Christ only died as Man suffered as to his Flesh had there been no Manhood there had been no Offering no Sacrifice 2. According to them the Man Christ doth not now intercede if he procured not Life by his Flesh and Manhood he doth not intercede there can be no life to our Souls without the Spirit and Faith now there is neither Spirit nor Faith to any but by the Intercession of Christ he obtains them thereby for us but now there is no Intercession without the Flesh and Manhood of Christ the blood of the Sacrifice was carried into the holiest which figured this viz. Christ carries the Merit of his sufferings into Heaven 1 John 2.2 He is an Advocate by vertue of his being a Propitiation it is the Man Christ Jesus that is the Mediator 7. Such a man is Christ as is not now a Priest Heb. 8.4 If he were on earth 1 Tim. 2.5 he should not be a Priest but he is on Earth the Quakers say at least in one Essential part of his Manhood his Soul is in every S●int you see Error is big bellied and fruitful This is the effect of forsaking the Scripture setting up another Rule not content with sound Doctrine given forth in sound words condemning the Christians in this day as having gross and carnal conceptions of things refining Religion and the blessed holy glorious true real operative Manhood of Jesus Christ into Air Wind Fancy Nothing and all this under a pretence that they are fully for it but we have tried them and you now plainly perceive what their true Scriptural sense is which they speak of Pag. 13. We have done with that controversy concerning the Manhood of Christ now they undertake to vindicate Christopher Tayler whom we answered in a Postscript whom if he be living I thought was at years off to answer for himself And now say they to manifest how like a confused and distempered crazed man W. H. writes take a short view of some of his inconsistencies c. Pag. 13. Reply Christ my Lord was accounted mad by his own kindred and by others the Scribes and Pharisees the Apostle Paul by Agrippa and the false Teachers was thus stigmatized to be besides himself it was a common thing among the Papists thus to censure the Martyrs because Philpot in the Convocation house manifested but a little more then ordinary zeal against the Popish errors they gave it out that he was raging Bedlam mad this is an old trick of the Devil I could name you one of my Brethren that is full of zeal for Christ that they have not long since thus dealt with all must I think much then if in this I be conformed to Christ to his Apostles to the Martyrs and the worthiest of my Brethren no surely it is my honour and we have reason to pity this People that herein as in other things they make themselves so like the Antichristian Papists I could tell them of that common speech that some there be that are not in danger of madness and say again that it might discompose the most composed man still to converse with men in Bedlam They are at it again Pag. 16. Lest he fall into manifest distraction as may tend to his and your reproach for he appears in some danger Answ Questionless they have recourse in their thoughts to that Prophet of theirs Will. Baily who pronounced a dreadful sentence against me viz. that in the name of the living God I should be mad this was at Hartford in the hearing of many to the utter shame of all their Party that was there if they had but a dram of true Humility I am sure to the amazement of many of us and the