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A43115	The Quaker converted; or the experimental knowledg of Jesus Christ crucified, in opposition to the principles of the Quakers, declared in a narrative of the conversion of one in Hartfordshire, who was for some years of their faith and principle, and inclined unto them. The manner how he was wrought off from them by the Lord. And several dealings of Christ with his spirit afterwards. With some things annexed for detection of their errors and delusions, and prevention of the growth thereof. Written by himself in his own words and phrases. Likewise an epistle dedicatory by W. Haworth, minister of the gospel at Hartford.	Dimsdale, William.; Haworth, William.	1690 (1690)	Wing H1196A; ESTC R43046	28,241	35

O that the Gospel were studied by us and preached by us more These things that follow have established me in the Preaching of it 1. That the Parity and Holiness of God's Majesty is such that nothing is accepted of him but what is every Way perfect and compleat We are very prone to measure God by the rule of our own Imagination and to think that what appears to be Righteousness with us is so with Him Whereas we are to conceive of God according as the Scriptures set Him forth to us and to bring our Righteousness to the Bar of his Tribunal and see whether it will bear the Tryal see whether it will hold out to justify in his sight when as Job 5.15 The Heavens are not clean in his sight Job 4.18 He chargeth his Angels with Folly which is too little to speak of the bad Angels 2. None of the Sons of Men since Adam's Fall that was no more than Man hath ever brought neither can any of them bring this perfect and compleat Righteousness to God Look to the best Men that ever were sanctified and that eminently by the Holy Ghost yea some of the Prophets Patriarchs and Penmen of the Holy Scriptures see what they say of themselves and what is said of them Abraham had Righteousness he had Works yet Rom. 4.2 these were not to be gloried in before God only in the sight of Men David Psal 143.2 prayeth to God in this manner Enter not into Judgment with thy Servant for in thy sight c. Therefore Psal 32.1 he placeth the Blessedness of Man in the Forgiveness of Sins Blessed is he whose Sin is covered c. which is mentioned in Rom. 4. Isiah c. 6.5 I am a Man of unclean lips Chap. 64.6 We are all as an unclean thing and all our Righteousness c. Hear Job called a perfect Man c. 9.30 If I wash my self with Snow-water and make my Hands never so clean v. 31. Yet shalt thou plunge me in the Ditch and mine own Cloaths shall abhor me Let us look at Daniel so much beloved of God how he confesseth Sin as well for himself as the People Dan. 9.7 Ezra likewise c. 9.15 Paul in Rom. 3.9 10. tells us That all both Jews and Gentiles of whom the World consisted were under Sin and not one righteous Ver. 23. All fallen short of the Glory of God 1 Job 1.8 If we say we have no sin we lye c. He writes to those that were called and sanctified and takes in himself with them and all Saints that ever were or ever should be And it s but a lie to rest so in any Righteousness as to take us off from Confession of Sin This is spoken to make them prize the more Forgiveness of Sin by Christ's Blood 3. Jesus Christ of Nazareth that was born at Bethelem that was of the Seed of David according to the Flesh brought this Righteousness He was called the Holy One and the Just in Daniel he is called the most Holy in Jeremiah the Righteous Branch in Peter A lamb without Spot and Blemish in 2 Cor. 5. ult Knew no Sin Now this came to pass 1. In that He was born of a Virgin in an extraordinary Way Luke 1.34 The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the Power of the Highest shall over shadow thee therefore that Holy Thing that shall be born of thee c. Thus there was no Original Sin in him or upon him 2. He who brought this Righteousness was the Holy One in that being the Anointed having the Spirit without measure by his Active Obedience in his Life absolutely and compleatly fulfilled the Law of God in all things and at all times Rom. 8.4 That the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us How can that be but only as Christ in our nature fulfilled it for us by his Holy Life Mat. 5. He came to fulfil the Law I come to do thy Will O God in Hebr. 10.7 Now this was required in the Sanction of the Law viz. Do this and live either we must or another for us otherwise no Life We could not through Weakness in the Fall therefore Christ came and did all in our place and stead 3. By laying down a Full Price for the Sin of his People by the Sacrifice of himself suffering Death on the Cross without the Gates at Jerusalem Therefore this his giving himself to Death is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Satisfactory Price of Redemption in the room and place and stead of another That God hath Justice in him the very Light of Nature sheweth Rom. 1. ult it 's said of the Heathens who knowing the Judgment of God i. e. his vindictive Justice The barbarous People Acts 28.4 could say Vengeance would not suffer Paul to live when they saw the Viper upon his Hand apprehending him to be a Murderer They saw this in the Deity viz. A Vengeance ready to punish Sin Now this is as dear to Him as his Mercy it being himself it must therefore be satisfied being wronged by the Sin of Man and He cannot deny himself And if it should rest upon those that had sinned it would have burned to the lowest Hell and and so the Lord would have been deprived of all Worship and Service from his People But now this way it is satisfied viz. the Father poured out all his Wrath upon his Son Jesus Christ upon whom the Guilt of his People was charged Isa 53. All our Iniquities met upon him and therefore it 's said in that 53d Chapter He was bruised striken of God In Gal. 3.13 Made a Curse Zach. 13. Awake O Sword against thy Shepherd against the Man my Fellow smite the Shepherd And now He being God as well as Man his Fellow Co-equal bare up under this Wrath. 4. This Righteousness of Jesus Christ becomes ours by Imputation it is reckoned ours and accounted ours by the Father's Act As if we had thus done and suffered these Scriptures speak thus much viz. Rom. 5.19 By the Obedience of One many are made righteous 2 Cor. 5. ult That we might be made the Righteousness of God in Him Now we are made Righteousness in the same way as He was made Sin for these two are set in contradiction to one another but he was not made Sin by Inhesion for He knew no Sin therefore this way viz. by Imputation Jer. 23.6 He shall be called i. e. He shall really be Jehovah Tsidkenu The Lord our Righteousness he had spoke of him as the Righteous Branch springing up from David as being made Flesh in the 5th Verse and here as Jehovah Here is both his Manhood and Godhead and as thus He is our Righteousness This cannot be spoken of the Light that every Man hath For is that the Branch from David Or is that Jehovah God that gives being to all things Nor of the Spirit that cannot be called the Branch Nor of Faith nor of Works of what sort soever but only of Jesus Christ

more diligence and pains in going up and down the dark Countries taking Examples from these Foxes who with unwearied travel compass Sea and Land spoiling the Vines that have tender Grapes many a young Lamb is torn by them My Brethren Let us be greatly encouraged in this Instance waiting upon the same Spirit in reducing others to the Faith in the same manner And let me engage you Night and Day to pray to Christ for the poor Town of Hartford which now for a long time hath a been a Nest of Error where Satan hath had his Seat that now having begun to fall he might fall as Lightning from Heaven It 's matter of Grief to us as you kuow that many in the Town that made a fair shew once have turned their Backs upon us and sunk into Formality discouraging of us all they can The Lord give them Repentance unto Life Others the same in Faith with us through Childishness make a Schism in smaller matters Controversial but most of all that these Seducers have caught so many simple Hearts in their Nets and keep them in perfect Popish Slavery and Bondage O let your Cry go up to Heaven for them some of his Elect peradventure may be among them My Bowels my Bowels for that dark divided Town of Hartford O cry and pray That as He hath now in Mercy built us a Tabernacle there the residue of the People might seek after the Lord and the Quakers be undeceived As for you my Brethren let me exhort you to stedsastness in the Faith you have received and yet more Zeal and Boldness for the Truth We have to do with a very impudent Enemy yet remember and believe it Stronger is he that is with us than those that are against us O let not those poor deluded Ones that have trod under-foot the Blood of Christ and so left themselves no more Sacrifice for Sin to trust unto let them not out-strip you in their Zeal they have but not according to knowledg And be you not afraid of them tho you be but a very little Flock and they swarm as Locusts about you As High as Heaven is above the Earth so far is that Spirit of the Faith of Jesus in you above the Spirit of Antichrist that is in them And yet a little while and Christ shall bruise Satan under your Feet Amen Hold on your way grow stronger and stronger quit your selves like Men walk in Wisdom and in Love keep the Unity of the Spirit abound yet more and more in all Judgment and Experience Jesus Christ is amongst us as we all can witness in his Institutions that are so much despised by this dark People He walketh among the Golden Candlesticks We see a Glory in a crucified Jesus though they see no Beauty or Comeliness in Him for which they should desire Him We eat his Flesh and drink his Blood He dwelleth in us and we in Him We have both Christ within and without we have both Word and Spirit and so we have the better of them that divide these Let us with one Shoulder carry on Christ's Interest in that place and Christ will add to us such as shall be saved and he will build us up and finish that good Work that He hath begun among us and he will throw all Babels down to the Ground and not leave one Stone upon another There begins to be a Confusion amongst them already wait a while Dagon will fall before the Ark. I testify from the Lord having tried this People many a time and in the Light of the Spirit of Christ to my utmost being willing to receive any Truth from any hand that the Quakers Spirit is A Spirit of Delusion and their Doctrine is Antichristian in diametrical opposition to the Doctrine delivered by the Apostles of Jesus Christ I testify in the Lord and I have with me herein the concurrence of many ten thousand faithful Ones in the Land That if ever Satan transform'd himself into an Angel of Light it is in this People coming forth with such a fair pretence of strict Mortisication and Self-denial speaking of Light Spirit and Power therefore let all rake head and beware of them O how dreadful to deny the Manhood of Christ the Holy Scriptures save only what they think serves their turns to be Saviours to themselves to say Christ came and died in vain and to no purpose c. which necessarily follows upon their Doctrine My Soul weeps in secret to remember what a dumpish dark sowr Pharisaical confused slavish Spirit we have found some in whom they have lately caught and yet withal infinitely proud and self conceited the Lord have Mercy upon them I now recommend these following Lines to you keep them by you as a Treasure they are rich Spoils obtained in a Spiritual Warfare and dedicated to you a Temple of the Lord. In this you have the Doctrines which I who am the least have been preaching to you taught me by the Holy Ghost through manifold Tossings Trials Temptations Desertions Sadnesses Buffettings wherewithal I have been exercised these Fifteen Years the Lord is my Witness And I am willing and ready through the Grace of Christ to seal them with my Blood against all Adversaries whatsoever It comforts me that I can say I have preached none other things than what is written by the Prophets and Apostles and how pleasant as here you see when the Spirit of Truth in one ecchoes to the Spirit it self in another It is the self-same Spirit that worketh these things in us and for us all 1 Cor. 12. In this you have 1. the Spirituality of the Law of God spoken of 2. Our Weakness to keep the Law 3. God's insinite Wisdom and Goodness to provide a Surety in our room 4. Christ's great Love in undertaking 5. Man's great blindness by Nature cannot see this of himself 6. His backwardness to receive this Righteousness till he be brought to utter distress as the Prodigal was 7. His proneness to be his own Saviour 8. God's distinguishing Love and Grace in enlightning his and revealing Truth to them by his Spirit drawing of them 9. The blessed Fruits of Faith viz. Peace and Joy and Love to Christ 10. The ineffectualness of any other thing but Faith on Christ to bring the Soul to rest 11. How the Light within every One and Obedience thereunto will not do it 12. You may see herein the benefit of reading the Holy Scriptures 13. You may see that the Doctrine of Free Grace is not a Doctrine tending to Licentiousness but Holiness 14. Yet it excludes all manner of Works in the point of Justification 15. Tho Compleatness of Justification viz. from all Sin These with more that might be enumerated And now I will boldly say The Gates of Hell Power and Policy thereof shall never prevail against these Truths Notwithstanding the rage and subtilty of Adversaries we will say Tho an Host encamp against the Church Isa 37.22 The Virgin Daughter