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A26339	A sermon preach'd at St. Clement-Danes, the 29th of Septemb. 1700 occasion'd by the recantation of Mr. Clement Joynes, (lately a Quaker) / by J. Adams ...	Adams, John, 1662-1720.	1700 (1700)	Wing A487; ESTC R21388	15,699	30

Mystery p. 268. Again as to Their Infallibility Who witness these conditions that they were in that gave forth the Scriptures they witness Infallibility an Infallible Spirit Which is now Possessed and Witnessed among those called Quakers Glory to the Highest for ever Oh Horrid And a little after I say the Devil False Prophets Antichrists Deceivers which are the Names they give to all that differ from them or write against them none of these can witness an Infallible Spirit But being out of the Spirit that Christ the Prophets and the Apostles was in they are not Infallible as they were but with that they are all Judged out Gr. Myst p. 105. But of themsemselves they say again Our Giving forth Books and Printed Papers it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God to the shewing forth the Filthy Practices of the World's teachers Truths Def. p. 2. And George Fox speaking of other Preachers says they are Conjurers and Diviners and their teaching is from Conjuration which is spoke from the mouth of the Lord and the Lord is against all such and Who are of God are against all such Sauls Errand to Damas p. 7. Lastly Concerning Equality with God They that have the Spirit of God meaning themselves are equal with God He that is joyned to the Lord is one spirit there is Vnity and the Vnity stand in Equality it self F. Howgills Work p. 232. He that hath the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with God and the Saints have the same spirit in measure for Gods Spirit is but one Saul's Errand by G. F. p. 8. Which he confirms in another place the Assemblies Catechism says The Holy Ghost and Son was equal in Substance und Power and Glory with the Father What says he then all that have the Son and the Holy Ghost hath that which is Equal in Power and Glory with the Father G. Myst p. 248. These are some of the Errors which this Unhappy and Deluded People are led into I mention not their Blasphemies against the Holy Trinity and their Scorn and Contempt of the Civil Power but for a further account of these and other Errors recommend to your Perusal that Excellent Book called The Snake in the Grass with other Writings of the same Author upon this Subject Also what the Learned Mr Keith has published since His Retractations And now Brethren Who is there in all this Company whose Blood has not been chill'd with a Sudden damp of Horrour at the very Recital of so many dreadful Blasphemies and who is there that has so little fear of God or Love for his Neighbour as not to magnifie and adore His Great mercy to these Persons whom He has at length Truly enlighten'd by His Blessed Spirit Recover'd from Such Errors as without Repentance might have ended in Damnation and done so much so very much for their Souls And oh that we might Ever see that Happy day When the rest of our Country-men I am sorry I cannot say our fellow Christians shall Return to Sion and build up the Walls of Jerusalem which they have made Such Breaches in Acknowledge their dreadful Errors and Give God the Glory But this is a Blessing very little to be Expected because very little Deserv'd Alas it must be confest that the Sins of this Nation are too great for it to be delivered from so Heavy a Judgment and yet the very heaviness of it ought to move us to Repentance for this is greater in itself if rightly considered than Fire War or Plague can be for those destroy only our Estates or Lives and while they are doing so often make us Better But Delusion of this kind spreads with a silent yet deadly Infection to the utter destruction of many thousand Souls And withal this particular Evil is so deeply Rooted and of so Stubborn a Kind as being Compos'd of all the Heresies of Old and fixt and settled in those it possesses by Enthusiastick Retirements by working themselves into Bitter Agonies which they call being under An Exercise and by separating themselves by a Peculiar Language Habit and Behaviour all which Sowres at last into a Hatred and Contempt of the Rest of Mankind this I say is such a Spirit of delusion upon all these accounts as is not to be cast out of this Nation but by much Prayer and Fasting By humbling our Selves greatly before the Father of Mercies for our Own Sins and then interceeding with Him in all Tenderness and Charity for their Deluded Souls And this is all the Force these are all the Arms I desire should be Employ'd against them What I have said has not been with any design to Raise or Increase any Bitterness or to Stir up Any Persecution Against them but to Shew the Goodness of God in Recovering these Persons from Such a Bottomless Pit of Error and Darkness and to Prevent others from falling into the same And what I have quoted Remains still in their Books not Retracted but Rather Confirm'd by them they Having Solemnly Resolv'd to Stand by the Testimony of their Ancient Friends Yearly Ep. 1696. meaning the Doctrines of their first Teachers such as I have recited and yet at the Same Time they have bought up All the old Editions of such Books and have left out or alter'd several passages in their New ones See the Collect at the end of the Defence of the Snake Numb 4. and as to others strain'd and tortur'd the Words a thousand Ways as some Parents serve their Crooked Children to Conceal if Possible their Odious Deformity This may be seen in the Answer to Mr Keith's first Narrative and the Switch for the Snake and prov'd Against 'em fully in Satan disrob'd the Defence of the Snake and Mr Keith's Fourth Narrative Such is the misery and folly of the Pretence of Infallibility where-ever it obtains In the Council of Trent many were for giving up some of the Doctrines which they were sensible were directly Against the Holy Scriptures and this was in a likely way of Succeeding till the Popes Creatures began to Represent How much the Dignity and Authority of the Court of Rome must be hazarded and How they must forfeit for Ever their Darling Principle of Infallibility and then all was dash'd in a moment So much more are some men concern'd to Secure their Interest than to Confess their Errors and to Gratifie their Pride than to Obey their Consciences And indeed Considering the Errors which these poor People Hold their infallibility which we have been Speaking of their Contempt of the Scripture with the Boasts of their own Perfection which are the fundamental Errors of the Papists and also the Hindring of the Common People of their Perswasion from Reading the Books of Truths Enemies as they call all that write and speak against them the Equivocations and Reserves in their way of writing to which they Retire like retrenchments as oft as they are driven from one to another and the Odd Collection of the