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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48935	The good order of truth justified wherein our womens meetings and order of marriage (by some more especially opposed) are proved agreeable to Scripture and sound reason / by an old and true friend to liberty of conscience, but not to disorder, William Loddington.	Loddington, William, 1626?-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing L2803; ESTC R21478	11,744	15

and will certainly devour their strength unawares if they do not return speedily to the Lord Hos 7.9 I would not be supposed by writing this to be more zealous for the Form than for the Power of Godliness my daily Watch is against it And I pray God I and all that love the Truth may not only grow in Words to speak for it but also in unfeigned Love to the Brethren and that the very Spirit of our Minds may daily feel strength renewed to withstand all the fiery Darts and all the guilded Baits of the Enemy I do in this matter as the Apostles did about Faith and Works and as all Christians ought to do viz. to countermine where we feel the Enemy undermining When the Romans began an early beginning to be tainted with a Belief That Works without Faith would save them Paul zealously writes for Faith Rom. 4. But when James perceived the scattered Tribes inclinable to err on the other hand he writes as fervently for Works chap. 2. So a concern is upon my Heart to vindicate even the Form of Godliness because I feel the Serpent designing to bring us to Disorder and Confusion under the fair pretences of Liberty as before mentioned And if it be true as I heard one no small Opposer and for whom I greatly sorrow say That the Worm which spoils the Shell breeds in the Kernel then there is much more cause to examine their Pretences to Power than many apprehend For by this Argument all their talk of Power and seeming Power is to be suspected as wrong because no Worm can breed in the true living Power of God that will spoil the Shell or Form of Godliness Obj. There is one thing more with me to add concerning Judgment It hath sometimes been returned upon me in conference about these things That I judged none to be Friends by these Arguments but such as were conformable to our Order and Forms and this was judging according to outward Appearances and that I must not judge lest I be judged and such like Answ There is thick Darkness in this Objection especially being made by one in some things conformable to Truth whereby the World judges him to be a Quaker Now he must either own or disown this Judgment If he own it be contradicts himself in saying No judgment is to be made by outward Appearance If he disown it he condemns himself of Hypocrisie in appearing to be what he is not But further let such pretending Friends who thus object consider whether they themselves do not in their own Thoughts daily as they walk the streets make a judgment of People according to outward Appearances I do not mean as to their eternal state but do they not judge such to be no Quakers who are dressed in the World's Fashions So by the same Rule as they judge them to be no Quakers which have not the visible dress or habit of Quakers must they justifie me in judging them to be no Members of our Meetings whose Behaviour there is not orderly and agreeable to our Principles He is not of a right Spirit who is not as watchful not to offend those he pretends to own as a Church of Christ as not to offend ●●…w or Gentile And if he believe us not to be a Church of Christ why doth he frequent our Assembly and there sit as in Unity with our Worship Qu. But what then is forbidden by these two Scriptures Mat. 7.1 John 7.24 Answ In Mat. 7.1 Christ forbids judging so of others as we would not be judged our selves Wherefore he adds For with what Judgment ye judge ye shall be judged He that judges without Mercy shall have Judgment without Mercy So this takes not away all but only partial and unjust Judgment 2. In John 7.24 That judgment is forbid which the Jews made according to the appearance of Letter of the Law When the literal Sence or Letter is a Figure we must not judge by that sence The fore-going Verses clear this The Jews were angry because Christ made a man whole on the Sabbath day He convinced them it was no Breach of their Sabbath by their own practice of Circumcision upon that day in case of necessity For that day was but a Figure of future Rest Exod. 31.17 So it was made for Man not Man for it that is it was to be subject to man not man to it Mark 2.27 And tho' the Letter of the Law was In it thou shalt not do any Work yet if they judged righteously this did not forbid good Works as necessity called for as Circumcision or saving the Life of a Beast themselves being Judges much more doing good to men Wherefore he reproves them for judging after the Appearance or Letter of the Law and not according to the Equity or Righteousness of it in his case as well as in their own Great is that blindness and ignorance which wrests these Scriptures to silence all judging and condemning what in Truth ought to be judged and condemned So I shall conclude with referring to what the Apostle Paul saith concerning our Bodies 1 Cor. 3.17 If any man defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy This Temple in chap. 6.19 he expounds to be our Bodies Now as the Body is a Temple for the Soul so I own the Form to be but as a Temple for the Power Yet if any man wound this living Temple this living Form the Life Spirit and Power within it will cry out and testifie against him THE END