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Antichrist in spirit unmasked: or, Quakerism a great delusion. Being an answer to a pamphlet lately published and dispersed in and about Deptford in Kent, intituled The Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers. Which they say is asserted against the unjust charge of their being no Christians, upon several questions relating to those matters wherein their Christian belief is questioned. By which pamphlet they would perswade the world that the Quakers are Christians. In which answer you have their deceit detected, their pretended faith examined and proved a counterfeit / by Edw. Paye ...
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Paye, Edw. (Edward)
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threatned they got into this Ark when the unbelieving World mocked at it the Water bears up the Ark and those in it and saves them whilst the others were destroyed So the Threats of perishing eternally are pronounced in the Gospel against Sinners Now the penitent Believer puts on Christ by Water-Baptism Gal. 3. 27. which is the initiating and ingrafting Ordinance and I demand of the Quakers if they can to prove where Water-Baptism is called a Figure of the Spiritual and also to shew me from the Scriptures where any were commanded to observe the Figure when at the same time they enjoy the Substance But Paul and Cornclius and others had the Spiritual Baptism and yet were commanded to be baptized with Water Another impertinency in their Pamphlet is they say they cannot believe dipping or sprinkling Infants unless it can be proved that none are saved without it and all are saved that have it They seem here most directly to strike at Infant-Baptism but their design is to root out that sacred Ordinance of Christ Believers Baptism And therefore I demand whether the Quakers believe that all that are baptized with the Spirit as they count it tho a Spirit of Delusion shall infallibly be saved if they say they do then what is the Reason they own or believe falling away and going from the Light and why do so many turn wet Quakers and become as vile in their Lives as they are in their Principles But if they do not own an Infallibility of being saved by that Spirit 's Baptism they pretend to then what is in these words And to conclude this Head I would not have the Quakers pretend to be baptized with the holy Spirit till they believe in Christ and obey his Appointments for Acts 5. 32. he gives his holy Spirit to them that obey him To conclude this let all that would be Christ's Disciples learn of him that hath led in the way of Righteousness when by Faith and Repentance you have laid hold on Christ O delay not to put him on by Baptism and so you will become visible Members of his Mystical Body be Heirs of the Promise of the holy Spirit and other blessed Priviledges as a Right to the Lord's Table to sup with him in this Kingdom of Grace and dwell with him in Glory hereafter 2. The Quakers in their Pamphlet in like manner with Falshoods and Impertinencies evade the Supper of the Lord instituted and administred in Bread and Wine Say they The Supper of the Lord we own and tenderly consider in a twofold sense First In the Figure Secondly In the Substance 1. That our Lord Jesus Christ at his Supper with his Disciples did eat the Passeover which was for the fulfilling and Consummation of the Feasts under the Law Luke 22. and at his Supper he did take and minister the Bread and the Cup to his Disciples for there was no Transubstantiation saying This do in remembrance of me and saith the Lord As often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew forth the Lord's Death till he come 1 Cor. 11. After this they did more clearly know his Coming and Christ after the Spirit Jesus Christ in them 2 Cor. 13. 5 c. The Reader may see with what deceivable words these Impostors go about to evade and make null the Ordinance of the Lord's-Supper administred in Bread and Wine But before I come to answer their impertinent Evasions and manifold Corruptions of the Scriptures I shall shew you that they plainly deny the Supper of the Lord administred in Bread and Wine to be now a standing Ordinance in the Church of Christ and practicable by Christians Let us hear them speak out more plainly before we answer them Parnell's Shield of the Truth p. 13. Feeding upon Husks and Shadows that are carnal for the Bread which the World that is all that are not Quakers eat is natural and carnal so also is the 〈◊〉 which they drink and there is no Communion but natural outward and carnal Smith's Primmer p. 39. Thy Bread and Wine in the Lord's Supper are the Popes Invention See how bare-fac'dly they can lie against the Truth See Nailor's Love to the Lost p. 56. Which all know who are come to his Supper where the Father and Son are come in and sup with the Creature which all the Imitators and Observers of Times are ignorant of whose Contention is about outsides Lastly Let us have the Testimony of George Fox le-Grand Great Mystery c. p. 16. says he Christ has triumphed over the Ordinances and blotted them out and they are not to be touched and the Saints have Christ in them who is the end of outward Forms and thou art deceived who thinkest to find the Living amongst the Dead You see by this how miserably these Men abuse the Scriptures Now it appears by all this that either the Apostles were ignorant about the nature and manner of Christ's second Coming or else the Quakers are greatly deluded in saying he is come the second time already But to clear the Apostles and Primitive Saints from that Ignorance the Quakers cast upon them and to make it appear that they did not believe the giving of the Holy Ghost Acts 2. to be the second Coming of Christ 1. Because the Apostles are found in the administring and the Primitive Christians in partaking of this Ordinance after the Holy Spirit that Christ promised to send was come as hath been before said of Baptism This appears from Acts 2. 42 46. They continued stedfast in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship in breaking of Bread and Prayer Acts 20. 7. The Disciples came together to break Bread All Expositors that I know of conclude this was to celebrate the Ordinance of the Lord's-Supper see this fully manifest 1 Cor. 11. 1 2. compared with Verse 23 to the 29th at large Be ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ Montanus an approved Interpreter reads it thus Imitatores mei â—stote sicut ego Christi Be ye Imitators of me as I am of Christ Now I praise you Brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the Ordinances as I delivered them unto you Ver. 23. For I have received of the Lord that which I delivered unto you As if he had said those Ordinances that I praise you for the keeping of are the same that I received of the Lord And this is one that the Lord Jesus the same Night in which he was betrayed took Bread blessed it and brake it c. Now if the Quakers were not stark blind or wilfully ignorant would they conclude that Paul and the Primitive Saints did not know that Christ was come in Spirit or that the Promise of the Holy Ghost was given So he goes on and tells them ver 26. As often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shew forth the Lord s Death till he come So that the giving forth of the Spirit was not the
But Paul had the Spirit of God and not of the Quakers and therefore he readily submitted to this Holy Ordinance and stands not to confer with Flesh and Blood See also Acts 10. from 44 to 48. While Peter was preaching the Gospel to Cornelius and those with him the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the Word and they heard them speak with Tongues and magnified God Then answered Peter Can any forbid Water that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we c. Doubtless had R. Ruckhill or any of the Quakers been there had there been any such a Creature in those Days they would have forbid Water and told Peter he was mistaken Hold Peter they have the Substance the Baptism of the Spirit wilt thou lead them back to the Letter to the carnal Thing of Water-Baptism If G. Fox had been there with his Book The Great Mystery pag. 65. he would out of that have proved to Peter that Paul told of the Spirit 's Baptism and brought the Saints off from Things that are seen and Water is seen and its Baptism from that Text 2 Cor. 4. 18. Would any Man in his Senses have drawn such an Inference But it is a lamentable thing that these Men care not for the Scriptures except it be to abuse them But to return Vers 48. Peter being of another mind having another Spirit than the Quakers Commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord. From whence I groundedly conclude That the highest Attainments or greatest Measures of the Holy Spirit do not exempt or excuse Men from but fit them for Gospel-Ordinances But I have shewed you before it is the Baptism of the Spirit and no other that they will allow This is that they contend for in their Pamphlet they say The Baptism of Water was put an End to at Christ's Death and then that of the Spirit succeeds of which that of Water was a Type This is their common Opinion To which I answer That it was Water-Baptism that Christ gave in Commission to his Disciples to Administer after he was risen from the Dead Mat. 28. Mark 16. First They were not to administer that of Sufferings his Disciples nor Apostles were not to persecute nor lay Sufferings upon others Secondly If they say that the Apostles were to baptize with the Spirit as some of them want no Ignorance or Confidence to affirm First I demand Whether the Administration of that were not peculiar to Christ Mat. 3 11. He meaning Christ shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire Secondly Whether that if the Command Mat. 28. 18. Mark 16. 16. be to command the Apostles to baptize with the Holy Ghost and Fire If it were I demand when and where they obeyed it Thirdly Whether we may not groundedly believe That the baptizing Men and Women in Water in the Name of Christ which the Apostles did was not in obedience to some Commission from the Lord so to do Fourthly Let the Quakers shew when and where the Lord gave them command so to do if this of Matth. 28. and Mark 16. was not it Fifthly If Peter had not Authority from the Lord to baptize with Water Acts 10. latter end I demand whether you do not conclude he finned in so doing for he commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord see Deut. 18. 20. But the Prophet that shall presume to speak a word in my Name that I have not commanded that Prophet shall die saith the Lord. I wish this were seriously weighed by all that counterfeit Christ's Ordinances Sixthly That whereas it is alledged that Baptism may be done or left undone that it is a thing indifferent Then I demand whether it was not as great a Sin in Peter Acts 10. 48. to command them to be baptized as it was in those 1 Tim. 4. 2 3. who command to abstain from Meats and forbid to marry which are things left at liberty For to command to do what God hath left at liberty to do or not to do is equally a Sin to the same extent with forbidding what God hath left to Mens liberty Therefore I would have none to count the Ordinances of Christ Things indifferent Let what hath been said be considered But the Apostles in pursuance of the aforesaid Commission Mat. 28. 18 19 20. Mark 16. 16. did preach and baptize with Water that being the only Baptism they were to administer That of Sufferings by Persecution being from the Devil and wicked Men that of the Spirit being peculiar from Christ and that of Water by his Apostles and Disciples And thus according to the Commission of their Lord you find them administring Acts 2. 38. and reaching Repent and be baptized for Remission of Sins and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost Acts 8. 12. When they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the Kingdom of God and Name of Jesus they were baptized both Men and Women Ver. 36 37. saith the Eunuch See here is Water what doth hinder me to be baptized Philip answered If thou believe with all thy Heart it is lawful for thee as most truly read And they went down into and came up out of the Water c. Acts 10. 47 48. And he commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord and none could forbid Water tho they were baptized with the Spirit before So that altho the pouring forth of the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit are comparatively called a Baptism and the Greatness and Over-whelmings of Christ's Sufferings are so called comparatively Yet there is but one Baptism in a full and proper sense and that is that of Water in which the penitent Believer is buried Coloss 2. 12. Rom. 6. 4. And whatever the Quakers pretend Ephes 4. 5. Christ is that one Lord and to believe in him his Offices and Doctrine is this one Faith and to be baptized in Water is the one Baptism and how ridiculously they abuse that Text in their Pamphlet 1 Pet. 3. 21. In ver 21. he speaks of God's Patience in waiting upon the old World while the Ark was a preparing wherein eight Persons were saved by Water The like Figure where unto even Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the Filth of the Flesh that is not the end of Water-Baptism to cleanse the Filth from the outward Man as were the many Washings under the Law but it is the answer of a good Conscience towards God in shewing your Obedience to his Law as it is said Luke 7. 30. The Pharisees and Lawyers rejected the Counsel of God against themselves in not being baptized of him and so contracted Guilt to their Consciences And their saying Water-Baptism was a Figure of the Spiritual is an apparent Falshood the Text under debate hath no such meaning But thus as eight Persons believed in the Lord 's preaching by the Ark's building when the old World was