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The Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers, asserted. Being a brief account of their faith in relation to divers matters where-in their Christian belief is questioned. Published in behalf of the people of God called Quakers by some of them.
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Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.
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THE CHRISTIANITY OF THE PEOPLE Commonly Called QUAKERS ASSERTED Being a brief Account of their Faith in Relation to divers Matters wherein their Christian Belief is Questioned Published in behalf of the People of GOD called Quakers by some of them Luke 6. 22. Blessed are ye when Men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their Company and shall Reproach you and cast out your Name as evil for the Son of Man's Sake Acts 24 14 After the way which they call Heresie so Worship I the GOD of my Fathers Printed in the Year 1696. THE PREFACE TO THE READER THere hath been of late Years many Aspersions cast upon Vs whereby the People in some Places especially in the West of this Nation of Scotland have been much stirred up against us and much hard and cruel Vsage have we Suffered and have often been in danger of our Lives both in our Meetings and in the Streets and sometimes in our own Houses And since the Sitting of the Late General Assembly at Edinburgh what a mighty Clamour hath been among the People through a great part of the Nation concerning us Some saying we must be all Excommunicated and that none must Converse or Deal with us others saying we must all be Banished The rude Multitude that abuse us often threatning us with the General Assembly and taking occasion from thence especially in our Meeting at Edinburgh to be more Wicked Prophane and Loose in their Carriage towards us than they were before And the only Reason that is given for this Confused Noise about us and for all the Cruel and Vnchristian Vsage we meet with is it not the same that was alledged against the LORD and his People by their Adversaries and Persecutors in former Ages that is under pretence of being Deceivers Deluders Hereticks Schismaticks possessed with the Devil c. Did not the Chief Priests and Pharisees tell People that Christ was a Deceiver and that he had a Devil John 7. 47. Mat. 2. 63. Luke 11. 15. John 8. 48. and did not the People revile and persecute Him under that pretence and were not the Apostles accounted Deceivers Turners of the World upside-down and deemed unworthy to Live upon the Earth 2 Cor. 6. 8. Acts 27. 50. And was not Paul called a Pestilent Fellow a Mover of Sedition a Ring-leader of the Sect of the Nazarines c. Acts 17. 6. Acts 24. 5. And were not all the Revilings Scoffings Stonings Imprisonments and other hard usage that they met with inflicted upon them under those hatefull Names and Epithites aforementioned whereby the dark Priests benighted Elders and Proud Pharisees and others stirred up the People against them and did not the Heathens put Wild-beasts Skins upon the Christians to make them appear like Beasts that the Dogs might be stirred up to Devour them And was it not under the black and detestable Names of Hereticks Deluders Schismaticks and sometimes of Socerers or Witches That the Popish Clergy incensed the People against the Ancient Protestants prohibiting them all Trade and Commerce exposing them to cruel Scoffings and Revilings and at last Murthering many Thousands of them as may be seen at large in the Books of Martyrs Was ever Christ or his Apostles found in such cruel practices or stirring People up thereunto Did he not rebuke those Disciples that desired the destruction of some that would not receive Him telling them they knew not what Spirit they were off and that he was not come to destroy mens lives but to save them Joh. 9. 55 56. And were not the Stoners Abusers Scoffers and envious Murthering Persecutors and the Priests and Teachers that stirred them up thereunto such as were filling up the measure of their iniquity and drawing down the Righteous and terrible Judgments of God upon themselves Mat. 23. 32 33 34 35 Acts. 7. 51. 52. So our earnest desire is that they who have shown themselves so eager to be found in such cruel Practices in this our Age may seriously consider what Spirit they are off and whose Steps they are treading in and that they may Repent before it be too late Now we having often been wrongfully accused and from thence hatefull Names put upon us with denying the Trinity the Holy Scriptures that we undervalue the Merits and Sufferings of CHRIST Some saying we deny His Divinity others saying we deny His Humanity The Ordinances The Resurrection and the Great Day of Judgement c. We have therefore found a Concern upon us to Publish a brief Relation of what our belief hath been still is concerning those other weighty points of Christian Doctine so leave it to the serious Consideration of the empartial Reader what ground there is for that mighty Clamour that hath been and yet continues against us and whether it be not like theirs of Old that cryed out Men of Israel Help c. Acts 21. 28. The CHRISTIANITY of the People commonly called QVAKERS Asserted Being a Brief account of Their Faith in Relation to several weighty Matters wherein Their Christian Belief is Questioned Question WHat 's your Belief concerning the Blessed Trinity as our Term is Answer Our Belief is that in the Unity of the God-head there is Father Son and Holy Ghost being those Three Divine Witnesses that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit and that these Three are One according to Holy Scripture Testmony Mat. 28. 19. 1 Joh. 5. 7. Quest. Do you Believe the Divinity and Humanity of Jesus Christ the Eternal Son of God or that Jesus Christ is truely God and Man Answ. Yes we verily believe that Jesus Christ is truly God and Man according as Holy Scripture Testifies of Him God over all blessed for ever he true God and Eternal Life the One Mediator between God and Men even he Man Christ Jesus Joh. 1. 1. 2. Rom. 9. 5. 1 Joh. 5. 20. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Quest. Do you believe and expect Salvation and Justification by the Righteousness and Merits of Jesus Christ or by your own Righteousness or Works Answ. By Jesus Christ his Righteousness Merits and Works and not by our own God is not indebted to us for our deservings but we to him for is free Grace in Christ Jesus whereby we are saved through Faith in Him not of our selves and by his Grace inabled truly and acceptably to serve and âollow Him as He requires He is our All in All who worketh all in us âat is well pleasing to God Rom. 3. 24. Eph. 2. 8. 9. Quest. Do you believe Remission of Sin and Redemption through the Sufferings Death and Blood of Christ Answ. Yes through Faith in Him as he Suffered and Died for all Men âave himself a Ransom for all and His Blood being shed for the Remission âf Sins so all they who sincerely believe and obey Him receive the Benefits âd blessed Effects of his suffering and dying for them they by Faith in His âame receive and partake of that Eternall