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A65896	The way of life and perfection livingly demonstrated in some serious animadversions or remarks and answers upon the book entituled The middle way of perfection, with indifferency between the orthodox and the Quaker, herein considered, and the naked truth as it is in Christ Jesus, opened in real love to the souls of men / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1973; ESTC R20758	42,882	60

more absolute not only from all those Things from which we could not be justified by the Law of Moses but also in a constant Perseverance in the Grace and Goodness of God in Christ and faithful Obedience to him through the Spirit which is revealed in us Again we know no Opinion of ours that leads th●se Friends called Quakers from the Spirit and Life back to the Letter and Flesh and Ministration of Death but to bring men forward through the Law to be dead unto it and through the Sentence of Death to the Ministration of Life which exceeds in Glory that under this they might live unto God Though I own the Apostle's distinguishing between the Letter and the Spirit the Law of the Spirit of Life and the Law of sin and Death the old Covenant and the new the Law of Faith and the Law of Works yet his deeming the ●aw written in stone the Law of sin and Death page 27. In this I am not satisfied for the Apostle spe●ks of two contrary Laws the Law in his Mind which was holy and the other Law in his Members which rebelled against the Law and led him captive Now I dare not exclude the Substance of what was contained in the Law written in Stone as not being contained in that Law in Paul's Mind though that Law in his Mind had a greater Effect and Force upon him then the Law without ever had before and when he said The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ hath made me free from the Law of sin and Death We may not understand him to be made free from answering the Righteousness of Love to God required in the Law written in the Tables of Stone so though it was in a more effectual and lively Manner written in the fleshly Tables of the Heart wherein it was renewed and became a New Commandment though in it Self an old Commandment yet this Commandment as renewed and made lively in the Soul remains still Love out of a Pure Heart and is ●ve● that Commandment which is exceeding broad Sect. XV. The Law of Grace does require a sincere walking before God in all his Commandments and the Spirit of God doth certainly help us so far as we sin not against that Sincerity page 28. Animad Why then should we fall short of our Duty or of Perfect Obedience Can we desire better Help then that of the Spirit Object But the Spirit is not given to bring us up to the Terms of the Law and that we should not sin at all page 28. Animad Not That 's strange is not the Spirit given to lead us into all Truth throughly to sanctifie justifie c what can be requir'd more then to be in ALL Truth for a perfect sinless State Object The Galatians were seduced to the Opinion that they must keep Moses Law or else they could not be saved and this is their seeking to be made perfect by the Flesh the Flesh and Nature are synoynmous Terms the Works of the Law as given by Moses are called Flesh pag. 28. Animad 1st The Galatians then were seduced from the Spirit wherein they had begun to seek to be made perfect by the Flesh which cannot be justly chargeable upon us who seek Perfection by the Spirit desiring to continue and walk therein for that End 2 dly The Apostle doth not oppose Perfection but reprove their Foolishness for seeking it the wrong way viz. in the Flesh and not in the Spirit 3 dly Not all the Works of the Law given by Moses are called Flesh or Nature but such Works as the Galatians were turned again into from the Spirit such as were but shadowy ceremonial and elementary and such as stood in Fleshly Observations as the observing of Dayes Meats Drinks dive●s Washings weak and beggerly Elements of the World Circumcision c. which the Apostle so much argues against 4 thly ●f any turn from the Spirit and then seek to be made perfect by their Fleshly lmitation of the Law or Voluntary observation of the most weighty Precepts thereof without the Spirit 's Guidance and Assistance this is no better then a seeking to be made perfect by the Flesh and short of that which the Apostle travailed for on the behalf of the Galatians which was that Christ might be formed in them which is not a Fleshly Birth in the Shadow but a Spiritual Birth in the Life and Substance that lives to God for ever Object If the Quaker then is come to seek Life by such a following his Light as must answer the Covenant of Nature it self that is by a Perfection as is without sin against the Law he is plainly under the Notion of the Spirit brought at last to the Flesh for what he seeks page 28. Animad This is a gross Mistake and it no Wayes follows from our following the Light of Christ for Perfection without sin that we must be brought at last to the Flesh for what we seek this can be no wayes deducible from our following this Light within for it is neither Flesh nor Fleshly but Divine and Spiritual and the contrary Inference plainly follows for if we walk in the Light as God is in the Light then have we Fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin observe from all S●n what Sin then can remain behind Sect. XVI Object Concess It seems that these Friends do apprehend that our Doctrine which p●●seth Perf●ction doth serve for the boistering up Men in their sins and lull them into security that though they live and dye in their Wicked●●ss they must be saved and this being taught spiciall among us Protestants who believe that we are justified by Christ's Righteousness without Works doth appear very destructive to many Souls which makes them out of an Intention which we may suppose zealous for God●ness and the Promotion of a Good Life to f●ll on our Divines with so much tragical Exclamation as they do on this Point page 28 29. Animad And we have Reason sufficient to exclaim against them on this Point for indulging and bo●stering up men in their Sins to their Grave yea we may say to their Grave of Perdition and what this Man saith for such their divines and against Vs for an abuse herein page 29. will neither clear them nor prove us guilty of wronging them and I wish that he would no further contribute to their Sin in this Point though yet he himself is not satisfied with those he calls Divines as appears in divers Passages of his Book and particularly touching their unsound sense of imputed Righteousness which he sets aside in the same 29th page which we are now upon and I would seriously ask him if that their unsound Sense of Imputation doth not give us occasion to witness against them as too much soothing or bolstering up men in their Sins And if their Sense herein be not repugnant to Christianity But to excuse

Performance so that not only our Sins are done away and not imputed but forgiven as the Iniquities of Judah shall be sought for and not fou●d but this Covenant hath nothing to lay to our Charge to which I would add as we are Children of God redeemed by Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity mark that And further Blessed is he whose Transgression is forgiven and whose Sin is covered bless●d is the Man unto whom the Lord imputeth not Iniquity and in whose Spirit there is No Guile Psa. 32. 1 2. Observe In whose Spirit is NO Guile And further the holy Spirit in this New Covenant enables them that walk in it to the perfect Performance of their Duty therein required and the Reconciliation that was wrought in the Body of his Flesh through Death for such as were sometimes alienated as the Apostle saith I was to present them Holy unreproveable in his Sight if they continue in the Faith grounded and setled and be not moved away from the Hope of the Gospel this unreproveable State in his Sight and Duty of Continuance in the Faith is the Perfection and Justification that we aim at As for his granting a Perfection which Divines call Evangelical to the Quaker that is an Integrity of Heart and Life which the Gospel requires of every man that shall be saved pag. 20. We accept of this Grant as rightly understood and experienced in the Evangelical and New Covenant State and are satisfied that where this Integrity of Heart and Life which the Gospel requires is thus experienced there will not be a Falling short of Duty especially since neither the Knowledge thereof nor yet divine Assistance will be wanting to such as possess this Integrity of Heart and Life As for this Man's Supposition If these Friends meaning the Qu●kers will have more then they must come to that our Divines call legal Righteousness c. page 20. I do not understand that a legal Righteousness or Righteousness of the Law can be more or higher then an Evangelical Perfection or Righteousness which the Gospel requires nor Moses's House more beautiful then Christ's though we do not propose the Righteousness of the Law or the keeping the Law in the outward Part of it nor impose it as in the Letter and Shaddow as either the Condition of Salvation or necessary thereto but True Faith in Christ which worketh by Love and as the Apo●stle said I though the Law am dead to the Law that I might liv● unto God I am crucifi●d with Christ c. Gal. 2. 19 20. As for this Man's or any others sleighting the Perfection we plead for tearming it a legal Righteousness we value not such insinuations seeing that to live without Sin according to the Royal Law of Love is both what the Law and Gospel requires and he hath confessed it our Duty and possib●e for us to attain to it through the Assistance of God's ●pirit It is granted that the Disciples did call God Father and so they must be in some Degree called and adopted to be his Sons while they did ask Forgiveness for th●ir Tresp●ss●s or D●bts as they for●gave others yet I do not grant this to be their highest State or Attainments in this Life for they did not only obtain Forgiven●ss but also the Blood of Christ cleansed them from all Sin and if they were heard in saying Thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven as doubtless they were then what Sin or Trespass could alwayes be continued by them or persisted in which was not perfectly done away in this Life I further confess that true Believers may be called the Children of God and under two Considerations or Degrees 1 st As called and adopted to be his Sons being begotten into the Faith w●ile yet they are weak and have Infirmities which the Spirit of Adoption doth help they are Children as to their Weakness little Children Children in Understanding yet in a Degree 〈◊〉 Faith Sincerity and Innocency having their Sins forgiven I have writ unto you little Children because your Sins are forgiven you 2dly Children and Sons of God in a higher Degree and State perfectly born not only of Water but also of the Spirit even of the incorruptible Seed that liveth and abideth forever Partakers of and naturallized into the Divine Nature and Image and such are they that cannot sin in whom the Seed remains and whom the Wicked one cannot touch c. And if he cannot touch them muchless lead or drive them into sin or Neglect of Duty further the Forgiveness that any true Believer had daily need of for a time was obtained and experienced even by little Children Touching that Article of that Prayer Forgive us our Trespasses c. The Man seems undeservedly to reflect by saying yet they think they may scratch it out of their Bibles because they leave it unsaid page 21. I suppose he meaneth the Quakers herein having a little before insinuated something against them touching Perfection which I cannot own as fair Dealing for we think no such Thing but do really own that Prayer both as to the Matter and seasonableness of it and as to the Fulfilling of it with Respect to the several Condition concerned therein Sect. XI To his saying page 21. That the constant stream of God's Word runs thus that we are sinners that we must all repent that we must alwayes be renewing our Repentance in making our Prayers Confessions Supplications doing our Alms c. Animad He appears herein much declined from the first Part of his Book and the Perfection and universal Justification therein consented to as our Duty and Possibillity of Attainment through Divine Grace or Assistance Now he seems to be fallen into the Ditch of the Imputarians of the Times who are daily pretending Repentance Humiliation Confessions and Supplications which are never attended with a real forsaking of Sin but they are sinning still in their best Dutyes none of them so just or good as to do good without sinning in doing good while they have Forgveness to crave for the Iniquities of their best Dutyes at which Rate they may be every Day praying feigning a Penitency and Humility and even therein still adding more Sin and making themselves more Work Both this pretended Repentance Voluntary and feigned Humility is to be repented of if the true Nature of Repentance Praying Asking and Receiving were experienced through the Spirit it would cut off all this strugling for Sin which must have no Place in Christ's Kingdom Upon that Scripture If any Man sin we have an Advocate with the Father who is the Propitiation for our Sins and also for the Sins of the whole World upon this he is pleased to pataphrase thus viz. There is our Sins St. John's Sins that need Advocate as well as the World page 21. Animad I must need confess this allows St. John very little Preeminence the Comparison is somewhat mean for our