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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82555	The Quakers confuted, being an answer unto nineteen queries; propounded by them, and sent to the elders of the church of Duckenfield in Cheshire; wherein is held forth much of the doctrine and practise concerning revelations, and immediate voices, and against the holy Scriptures, Christs ministry, churches and ordinances &c. Together with an answer to a letter which was written and sent by one of them to a family of note and quality in the said county, which pleaded for perfection in this life, and for quaking. By Samuel Eaton, teacher of the Church of Christ heretofore meeting at Duckenfield, now in Stockport in Cheshire.	Eaton, Samuel, 1596?-1665.; Waller, Richard, d. 1657.	1654 (1654)	Wing E125; Thomason E719_8; ESTC R9865	69,620	98

believe in Jesus Christ of which number we take our selves to be have the Spirit of Jesus Christ Rom. 8. 9 dwelling in them 1 Cor. 3. 16. Which Spirit is God Acts 10. 3. 5. compared with vers 19 20. and therefore Eternal Dout. 33. 27. and he who gave forth the Scriptures 2 Pet. 1. 21. 2 Tim. 3. 16. But we do not believe that there is any substantial essential or personal union betwixt this Eternal Spirit and such Believers For such Unions would either make the Spirit and Believers some third thing as when soul and body are united a third thing which is neither soul nor body but compounded of both ariseth from it which is called Man or else thee will be a confounding of substance which cannot be for God cannot mix with the Creature And else such Union if it should be Personal as betwixt the two Natures in Christ would make Believers God and equal with Christ and consequently equal with God himself The Consequence of which would be thatsuch Persons would have an Almighty Power which they might put forth in working as many miracles as they please as they may see it make for the Glory of God and that they would be omniscient and know all things and would have the rest of Gods Atributes as Christ had who was God andequal with God and in whom this Personal Union was But this is palpsbly false in reference to Saints and is full of Blasphemy And though we believe that the Spirit of Christ dwels in Saints yet we assert the Spirit of Christ to be distinct from the Saint and the Saints from the Spirit And though he dwells in the Saints yet he acts not in them but as it pleaseth him neither doth he impart Wisdom Power Grace and Glory but as it pleaseth him 1 Cor. 12. 7. to 12. And though there be the same Spirit in all Saints that gave sorth the Scriptures yet all Saints have not the same Inspiration of the Spirit which the Prophets and Apostles had so as they should be able to give forth infallible Truths and immediatly discover the pure and clear will of God as the Prophets and Apostles did Timothy had the Spirit of God yet he must give attendance to Reading 1 Tim. 1. 13. and 2 Tim. 1. 14. 15. He must continue in the things he had learned and had been assured of knowing of whom he had learned them And the holy Scriptures which of a child he had the knowledge of are those Writings to which the Apostle sends him as being able to make him wise to Salvation The Spirit within him did not dictate all things to him but he must have recourse to the Scriptures God dwelt in the Temple but God did not make out all his Glory in the Temple Sometimes there was no Glory at all that was visible and yet God was there and when there was Glory there was not all that might have been And Believers are the Temple of the Holy Ghost and the Spirit of God dwels in them but God doth not make out all his glory in them not all the Glory his Wisdom Power Holiness or of the rest of his Attributes For neither is there a capacity in the Crreature to receive it neither doth the Spirit communicate according to the capacity but it is reserved for another time and place and now every Saint is in weakness and infirmity as in Knowledge so in all other Graces 1 Cor. 13. 9. to 13. Querie 2. Whether the Apostles did give a right meaning Concerning the sense of the Scriptures to the Scriptures when they gave them forth or left them to you to give the meaning of them yea or no Answ The Apostles and so all the Penmen of Scriptures in all the Scriptures they gave forth had a meaning and they gave it forth in and with those Scriptures which they gave forth yet not alwayes so plainly that the meaning thereof might be rightly taken up by those that read them unless compared with some other Scriptures which they also have given out which have a plainer sense in them and are helpful to expound them 1 Cor. 2. 13. Christ saith unto the Jews who required a Sign Ioh. 2. 19. Destroy this Temple and in three daies I will raise it up again Christ had a sense in which he meant those words he understood what himself said but the Iews understood it not could not take up the sense but applyed the words to a Material Building But the Evangelist gives the right sense in which Christ intended them and we come to know the right sense not by the signification of the words themselves for more things are signified then one by one word as the word Temple signifieth plainly and properly a material house where God gave his Presence and was worshipped but siguratively and mystically the Body of man in which the Soul dwels In this metaphorical sense Christ meant it But this did not appear to them nor would it have appeared to us by the signification of the word if in another place of Scripture the Evangelist had not given the interpretation Ioh. 2. 21 22. The Apostle Peter tels us 2 Pet. 3. 16. that some things in Paul Epistles were hard to be understood which they which were unlearned and unstable did wrest to their own destruction There was a sense which Paul gave forth in those Seriptures in his Epistles but it was not easie but hard to be understood and so hard that they who were unlearned in the Scriptures not well read therein not well vers'd not well acquainted therewith did wrest them and unstable ones by reason of the difficulty that was in the sense of them did pervert them to their own and others ruin Christ in his Parables that he gave out which are part of Scripture had a meaning But the meaning was so mystical and hidden that the Diseiples could not have found it out if Christ himself in other words had not given the sense and meaning thereof And Moses the Prophets wrote of Christ so darkly obscurely that though themselves knew what they meant in what they wrote Iohn 12. 41 yet others did not the Disciples did not till Christ first expounded unto them the things which Moses and the Prophets wrote of him Luk 24. 26 27. Therefore it is that Christ commmands to search the Scriptures because the meaning lieth deep in many places and is hidden from the common eye yet by searching what Scriptures layd together speak the sense may be gotten out In Answer therefore to the Question the Apostles when they gave out the Scriptures they gave out the sense in some places more darkly in other places more clearly so that the sense and meaning may be taken up at least in all the great Points of Faith if Scriptures be compared with each other And they have not left them to us nor to any others to give the sense of them that is to put any sense of