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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27001	The Quakers catechism, or, The Quakers questioned, their questions answered, and both published for the sake of those of them that have not yet sinned unto death and of those ungrounded novices that are most in danger of their seduction / by R[i]chard Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1655 (1655)	Wing B1363; ESTC R28362	39,590	58

Whether ever the earth bore men that did more proudly despise others in comparison of themselves and whether their language savour of the Spirit of the Lamb of God Or can he have any taste of that Spirit of Christ in himself that doth not even feel that their proud and railing language is of the devil Qu. 7. Was there ever a generation known on the earth that did more arrogantly step up into the Throne of God and censure his Servants whose faces they never saw and whom they can charge with nothing but being Preachers of the Gospel and that in a Pulpit having an hourglasse taking Tythes c. to be Ministers of the devil sons of perdition with much of the like Though Christ hath said Iudge not that ye be not judged and who art thou that judgest another mans Servant To his own Master he stands or fals Qu. 8. Was there ever a Generation of men on whom the Image of the devil was more visible then on these He is the Prince of darknesse pride and malice And the depth of Ignorance and height of pride and malice breaks out so abundantly in their carriage and discourse that all not utterly blinded may see it It is the work of the devil to be the Accuser of the Brethren and so it is the very Religion and businesse of these wretches to accuse Ministers and godly people to be hypocrites Liars children of the devil Serpents Vipers with much the like Qu. 9 Is it no kin to the blaspheming of the holy Ghost for such wretches when they have powred out the most horrid lies slanders Railings and false doctrines to professe solemnly that all this is from the Spirit of Christ within them and make God and his holy Spirit the Author and Patron of all Qu. 10. Can that man that hath one spark of grace believe that he hath no sin Can he have so little knowledge of himself And consequently of the need he hath of the Physician Dare you say to Christ we will not be beholden to thee for thy bloud to wash us any more or to thy Intercession to pard on us any more Do you not believe that In many things we offend all Jam. 3. 2. If we say that we have no sinne we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us If we confesse our sinnes he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sinnes and to clense us from all unrighteousnesse If we say that we have not sinned we make hem a lyar and his Word is not in us 1 Joh. 1. 8 9. 10. Are not all Christs Disciples taught daily to pray Forgive us our trespasses For my part I am one that is sick and have need of the Physician and dare not tell God that I will ask him pardon for no more sins nor be beholden to him for any more But O what a power hath the deceiver with these wretches that in the midst of their horrid railing flandring and other wickednesse will stand to it that they have no sin Just like the Swearer that will swear he never swore an Oath Or the Drunkard that will swear he was never drunk when he lieth drunk in the Channell Solomon saith There is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles. 7. 20. and these Quakers that Pharisaically and Papistically justifie themselves do give him the Lie Qu. 11. Whether those that deny Scripture to be Gods Word as these Quakers do and deny that there is any such Person as Jesus Christ who suffered at Ierusalem now glorified in heaven in the humane nature and only call somewhat within themselves by the Name of Christ I say whether these are not abominable Infidels having nothing to do with the name of Christians Q. 12. Is it not damnable Hypocrisie in these wretches to prate so much of Scripture and call for Scripture while they thus deny it to be Gods Word Qu. 13. Is it not damnable hypocrisie in them to call themselves Christians when they are Infidels and deny the person of Jesus Christ crucified to be in heaven Qu. 14. Is not he a Pagan and no Christian that thinks that the light which is in all the Indians Americans and other Pagans on earth is sufficient without Scripture Qu. 15. Was that light in Paul which perswaded him that he ought to do many things against the name of Jesus sufficient to convert him to the Faith of Jesus Or did Christ give him needlesly a light from heaven and by Ananias his doctrine O● had Con●lius sufficient light within him before Peter preached to him Or had all the world sufficient light within them before Christ sent abroad his Apostles to preach the Gospel to them Or did Christ send them a needlesse light by his Apostles Have those Persecutors sufficient light within them to cause them to believe in Christ who think they do God service in killing or reproaching his Ministers and people Qu. 16. If all have sufficient light within them what need you go up and down to teach or perswade them Is it needless light that you bring then or is i● hellish darknesse Qu. 17. Is it not a most sottish trick of you to go up and down prating and commanding and yet refuse to shew your Commission from God And to call Ministers to shew theirs and refuse to shew your own but say it is invisible within you are you so mad as to expect any should belive an invisible and indemonstrable Commssion And might not we as well tell you ours is invisible but that indeeed it is not Or should we beleeve every one that prates of a Commission within him or no If not why should we belive you more then others that say the like Qu. 18. Seeing you cry down our Ministry and Churches tell us which is the true Ministry and Church and when yours begun and where it hath been since Christs abode on earth till now Speak plainly and let us know whether you are indeed Papists or Pagans Qu. 19. Is not that man an Infidell and a Scorner of Christ that date say he came into the world and shed his bloud to gather onely a few raging Quakers in England 1652 years after his Incarnation If Christ have no Subjects but these he is a poor King If Christ have been till now without Subjects he was no King If without a Body he was no Head If without a spouse he was no Husband Therefore shew us what Church Christ hath had or confesse your selves Infidels Qu. 20. Did not the Spirit of the Quakers speak in Num. 16. 3. just as you do now against Magistrates and Ministers And is not God very patient that causeth not the earth to open and swallow you up quick as it did them Do you understand that the Simonians or Disciples of Simon Magus and the Nicolaitans whose doctrine and deeds Christ hateth Rev. 2. and other Gnostick Hereticks in the Apostles daies did deal by them and the Church then as you do by us now and that the second Epistle of Peter the Epistle of Iude much of 1 Iohn and 2 Iohn were written purposly against them besides many other Scriptures And have you well considered those Scriptures and applied them to your selves When you have answered these Questions I require you to have no more to do with me nor any of this Church For we renounce you as Hereticks after a first and second Admonition a●d will have no fellowship with such self-condemned persons nor receive you into our houses or bid you God speed lest we partake of your wicked deeds Tit. 3. 10. 2 Ioh. 10 11. Kederminster March 28. 1655. Richard Baxter FINIS

that down so many Ministers for being called Masters But alas do you not know that Pride of inward qualifications commonly called spiritual Pride is the most killing and abominable the better the thing is that you are proud of the worse is your Pride O what a brave thing doth it seem in these mens eyes that they should seem to be possessed with such an excellent spirit as can trample upon worldly glory and can boisterously contemn all that are not of their sect and that can despise Dignities and be equall with the greatest yea that only they should have this admirable spirit and all o-others are the Children of the Devil and under their feet Though other men should never so much sl●eght them yet do they wonderfully please themselves with these high thoughts of themselves For Pride is first an overvaluing of a mans self and thinking of himself above what is meet and then a desire that others should do so by him too If yet you see not the pride of these men I will shew it you in these four particular Evidences and that so plainly that if you know the difference between the language of heaven and of hell you may easily perceive the devil speaking by their mouths 1. They affirm themselves to be perfect without sin yea some of them say they are Christ and God And is it possible that any man in this life that is not mad with spiritual pride can indeed believe that he hath no sin what that he transgresseth no Law That he doth love God in the highest degree that he is bound to do That he never hath a thought or word that is sinful nor sinfully loseth one minute of his time Yea and this when in the eyes and ears of the wisest they foam out their own shame as the raging Sea doth cast out the dirt The devil himself hath either lesse pride or lesse ignorance then to think himself to be perfect without sin If they have no sin what need they pray Forgive us our sins or what further need have they of the bloud of Christ or his Intercession to procure them any further forgiveness If you can see no pride in this I fear you are blinded with them to destruction 2. And is it not apparent pride in them to set up themselves so far above all the people of God on earth yea to vilifie the most holy and eminent Servants of God and condemn all the Churches in the world as if heaven were made for them alone if it were so well that all of them did beleeve a heaven besides that within them which I suppose is but a sorry heaven 3. And yet more unmatchable pride and impious Infidelity is it to damn all the Church and people of God for this 1600 years at least Indeed God had never a people on earth of these mens way But to let passe the Scripture ages which condemn them tell me Had Christ any Church since the Apostles daies till now or not If he had not then he was no head of the Church and so no Christ For there is no head without a body If he had a Church tell us where it was and when Do you not know if you know any thing of the state of the Church for 1600 Years that Christ had no Church on earth of the Quakers minde and that all his Ministers have been such as they condemn and have been called by as honourable Titles as they are now And is not that man either an Infidel and enemy to Christ or stark mad with pride that can believe that Christ had no Church till now and that all the Ministers of the Gospel for 1600 years were the Ministers of the devil as they say of us that tread in their steps and that all the Christians of that 1600 Years are damned at now they dare denounce against those that succeed them and that God made the world and Christ died for it with a purpose to save none but a few Quakers that the world never knew till a few Years agoe or at least a few Hereticks that were their Predecessors of old 4. And I should suppose that their proud scornful railing language should put it out of doubt what spirit they are of to any that are acquainted with the language of Christs Spirit and of Satan and are able to judge of spirits by the most palpable effects and to know darknesse from light But you say It is Scripture-Language which they speak I answer the greater is their presumptuous sin in making so ill a use of Scripture-Language as to serve Satan by it and use it to reviling What if Christ call Judas a devil Is it therefore lawfull to call Perer so or any faithfull Servants of Christ But I perceive you think they justly condemn us because we are called Masters of men contrary to Matth. 23. Alas that a Christian should be so ignorant as not to know that even calling Master and Lord too is commonly allowed of in Scripture and that it is not the Title but 1. The proud affecting of the Title 2. And the Lording it over mens faith as Masters of that as if others must be of their minde right or wrong which Christ there condemneth Even as in the same place he forbiddeth being called Fathers in the very same sense when yet it is frequently allowed in a better sense But for the fuller answering of these scruples of yours and the rest about Tithes and such like I send you herewith an Answer to the Questions of some Quakers near us in the Parish of Bromsgrove and refer you to my Defence of the Worcester shire Petition Printed some Years agoe To your Question What I think of these men I will tell you what I think and am past all doubt of There are in England a Company of young raw Professors that have more zeal then knowledge And there are a companie of carnal hypocrites that place all their Religion in holding certain Opinions and using certain externall worship and siding with a Religious partie It is no hard matter to misleade all these if they be not better guided by others then by themselves While they have due regard to the Judgements of their Teachers that know more then themselves and so live in a learning way till they have attained to better understanding they may escape Deceivers But if they are once brought to be wise enough in their own eyes and to despise their Teachers then they are like a man that hath lost his way in a dark night or that hath lost his Guide in an unknown Wildernesse or like a Dog that hath lost his Master and therefore will be ready to follow any body that first whistleth to him The Papists and the devil know this well enough and therefore their first endeavour is to unsettle these people by taking them off all dependance on their guides and that must be by bringing the Ministers into contempt with them For if they could