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A65885	The rector examined about his book scandalously stiled, An antidote against the venom of Quakerism, by John Meriton, who calls himself A.M. rector of Boughton in Norfolk : and his observations remarked, and the Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers, re-asserted and vindicated, from his perversions and aspersions / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing W1953; ESTC R20277	40,584	48

that the Inward Spiritual Baptism washing of Regeneration by the Word of Life the Spirit of Life the Power of Christ is the Saving Baptism the truly Regenerating Baptism the Baptism essentially necessary to Salvation and making Christians and not the outward nor the Sign Type or Shadow thereof is no venomous Doctrine but agreeable to Holy Scripture Testimony is evident from Isa. 1. Wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine Eyes saith the Lord c. this was an Inward and Spiritual Washing Jer. 4. 14. O Jerusalem wash thine Heart from thy wickedness that thou mayest be saved This was a Heart-washing an Inward and Spiritual Washing whereby they might be Saved Zech. 13. 1. The Fountain opened to the House of David and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for Sin and for Uncleanness was a Spiritual Fountain The Lord God was the Fountain of Living Water which when they had forsaken they committed a great Evil therein as well as in hewing to themselves broken Cisterns which could hold no Water Jer. 2. 13. And the clean Water the Lord promised to Sprinkle upon his People to make them clean from all their Filthiness and to cleanse them from all their Idols Ezek. 36. 25. was a Spiritual Sprinkling with Spiritual Water and the Lord 's doing John 3. 5. Except a Man be born again of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God This was Spiritual Living Water Inward and Sanctifying Grace as the True Primitive Christians experienced and best of Reformed Protestants believed and not the outward Element of Water as Papists and this Rector believe and hold As in his page 28 before more fully observed yea he holds This poor Element as he calls it of Water as necessary to do away Sins and to work upon our Souls as the Waters of Jordan were to the Cleansing of Naaman 2 Kings 5. 13. so necessary quoth he are the Waters of Baptism to the Cleansing our Souls p. 31. Such Vertue he ascribes to this Element thus idolizing it even as highly as the Rhemists against the Protestants but contrary to Christ's own Testimony also If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me saith our Lord Jesus John 13. 8. who also required first to make clean the inside that the out-side might be clean also Therefore 't was the Inward Spiritual Washing of Regeneration the Washing or Cleansing of the Heart by the Word of Life the Holy Spirit and Power of Christ which was the Soul's Saving Baptism and not that of the outward Element Titus 3. 4 5. After that the Kindness of God our Saviour toward Man appeared not by Works of Righteousness which we have done but according to his Mercy he Saved us by the Washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Ghost And if the Baptism which doth now save us be not the Putting away of the filth of the Flesh but the Answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ according to that of 1 Pet. 3. 23. What can be more clear than that the Saving Baptism is that of the Spirit which is the One Baptism Ephes. 4. 5. whereby the Saints were all Baptized into One Body 1 Cor. 12. 13. and not that of the outward Element which can neither cleanse the Soul nor wash away the Sin or Guilt thereof The Inward and Spiritual Grace Saveth the Soul from Sin and Condemnation and ought to be preferred to all outward and visible Signs which can neither Save nor Sustain or Relieve the Soul 't is Life and Substance which is divine can do that The One Spiritual Baptism and that One Bread that Spiritual Meat and Drink which cometh down from Heaven is that which both saves and nourisheth the Soul unto Eternal Life John 6. 1 Cor. 10. That Disciples and Apostles of Christ did Baptize with Water is not denied Acts 8. 36 38. ch 10. 48. ch 19. 3 4 5. but that they did Practice or enjoin it as an act of necessity pursuant to Christ's Commission in Matth. 28. 19. is to impose upon us or beg the Question but that it was rather permissively practised in con discention than by that Commission For 1st Water is not expressed in that Text. 2dly When they Baptized with Water they did not use the terms of the Commission in it We do not read in all the Acts of the Apostles that any of them Baptized with Water in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost or that they used those expressions or terms in their Baptizing with Water but in the name of the Lord or in the name of the Lord Jesus If Water had been intended in that Commission of Christ Matth. 28. 19. the Apostle Paul must be concerned in it it must be as much binding to him as any other Minister but he declares the contrary that Christ sent him not to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel 1 Cor. 1. 17. he does not say Christ sent me not only to Baptize but positively for Christ sent me not to Baptize but to preach the Gospel which was part of the Reason he gave why he thanked God that he had baptized no more than those he mentions 1 Cor. 1. 14 15 16. as well as Lest they should have said he had baptized in his own name for 't is not to be supposed he would thank God for not performing part of his Commission if it had been to Baptize with Water as well as to Preach the Gospel but that positive and general Reason for Christ sent me not to Baptize but to preach the Gospel leaves no room for him to say Christ sent me to Minister Water-Baptism in his Commission in Matth. 28. 19. for Water-Baptism was properly John's Baptism and Ministry to make way for Christ's higher Dispensation and Spiritual Ministry Matth. 3. 11. Mark 11. 8. Luke 3. 16. John 1. 16. Acts 1. 5. 10. 16. compare with Acts 19. 2 3 4. But I need not enlarge on this subject to answer the Anabaptists Argument for Plunging or dipping Believers in Water unless this Rector were in the Practice thereof and renounced his Rantism as they do as a Scriptureless Thing as they term Sprinkling Infants But referr him to a Treatise of one that was of his Coat i. e. William Dell his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or The Doctrine of Baptisms To the Rector's Referring the Reader to that Excellent Piece of Water-Baptism as he terms it writ by that worthy and Ingenious Author as he applauds him of The Snake in the Grass c. printed 1697. p. 29. Thus highly has he commended the Author of that Great Defaming and Reproaching Libel i. e. The Snake in the Grass but it would be too difficult a Task for him to defend the manifold Gross and Abominable Lies and Calumnies contain'd therein against the manifest detection and discovery made of them not only in my Antidote against the Venom of

Scripture which is no ways agreeable to the Sence and Interpretations of any Orthodox Christians p. 43. Which is as undue a Reflection as 't is uncharitably Censorious And what he quotes against our Sence out of W. Penn's Arguments against such a Carnal Resurrection of Man's Carnal or Natural Body as some imagine out of his Reason against Railing p. 134. is no proof at all That our Sence of Holy Scripture in this case is no ways agreeable to the Sence and Interpretation of any Orthodox Christians unless he can either prove the same Natural Carnal and Numerical Body that now is to be the Resurrection Body or the Apostle Paul Heterodox in asserting it a Spiritual Body for a Natural Body is sown a Spiritual Body is raised and that was not first which is Spiritual but that which is Natural and afterward that which is Spiritual 1 Cor. 15. 46. ver 37. and our Sence clearly agrees with this His other Instance to disprove our Sence herein if rightly cited is out of Thomas Ellwood's Answer to G. Keith's First Narrative p. 149. printed 1696. In 1 Cor. 15. 37. he makes the Apostle thus speak saith he The Body that shall arise is not the same Carnal Body that dies No the Body that is sown is a Natural Body but the Body that is raised is a Spiritual Body it is sown a Natural Body it is raised a Spiritual Body ver 44. And that none might think this Spiritual Body was the same with the Natural Body he adds quoth the Priest there is a Natural Body and there is a Spiritual Body He does not say quoth he the Natural Body is made a Spiritual Body or the Natural Body and the Spiritual Body is but one and the same Body but he sets them in opposition as two distinct Bodies and again that none might think this Spiritual Body was the same he adds There is a Natural Body and there is a Spiritual Body p. 27. Thus far the Rector This Addition as he counts it and repeats twice over against Tho. Ellwood to make him an Offender is the express words of the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 15. 44. There is a Natural Body and there is a Spiritual Body Thus the Apostle uses the same distinction between the Natural Body and the Spiritual Body Where does he say They are both one and the same Body And farther to evince the distinction Paul adds And so it is written The first Man Adam was made a living Soul the last Adam was made a quickning Spirit Howbeit that was not first which is Spiritual but that which is Natural and afterward that which is Spiritual ver 45 46. Now I ask these Men 1st If the first Adam and the last Adam were one and the same Adam 2. If the Spiritual Body and the Natural Body be one and the same Numerical Body And 3. If the Celestial Bodies and the Bodies Terrestrial be one and the same Bodies see ver 40. and ver 37. And thou sowest not that Body that shall be Whom shall we believe in this case the Apostle or this Priest for they differ herein the one says Thou sowest not that Body that shall be and the other 'T is the same Body that shall be The one says Flesh and Blood cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 15. 50. The other I presume upon his Principle says The same Carnal Body i. e. of Flesh and Blood can and shall Inherit the Kingdom of God But then how agrees his Notion herein with his Beloved Friend their Assistant Geo. Keith his affirming The Husk or drossy part that is no more the true Body than dross in a lump of Rich Ore of Gold is Gold as in his Gross Error and Hypocrisie detected p. 13. And what he means by the Husk or drossy part may be gathered from his affirming concerning the Body of Christ that was Crucified that It is so wonderfully changed as to the Mode and Manner of its being that it is no more a Body of Flesh Blood and Bones but a pure Ethereal or heavenly Body like unto which the Bodies of the Saints are to be at the Resurrection See G. Keith's Way Cast up p. 131 132. 1676. So that the Flesh Blood and Bones the Saints now have must be the Husk or drossy part which they shall not have in the Resurrection but pure Ethereal or heavenly Bodies like Christ's glorious Body And if so 1st How shall they remain one and the same in Substance or Essence they now are 2. How shall they be the same in Substance without Flesh Blood and Bones 3. What shall be their Substance or Essence when they shall be no more Bodies of Flesh Blood and Bones 4. How will this Priest and G. K. reconcile themselves in this Point of the Sameness of Bodies If one affirm the Resurrection Bodies shall be the same Flesh Blood and Bones or at least the same Flesh and Bones they now are and the other they shall be the same in Substance but no more Bodies of Flesh Blood and Bones Let them reconcile and demonstrate the same we are satisfied with the Appointment and good Pleasure of God in this weighty Matter and to wait upon him in the hope of the Resurrection of the Just unto Eternal Life and Glory sincerely believing that God will give a Body as it pleaseth him and to every Seed his own proper Body 1 Cor 15. 38. And do not think it necessary to Faith and Salvation to be too curious or inquisitive as to the very Mode or Manner of the Resurrection Bodies and How God will manifest his Pleasure therein Let 's live well here and it shall be well with us hereafter say to the Righteous it shall be well with them but Woe to the Wicked it shall be ill with them Isa. 30. 10 11. I refer the Ingenuous Reader to several further Answers in this Great Point of the Resurrection i. e. My Antidote against the Venom of the Snake in the Grass p. 102 to 111. And to the Christian Quaker printed 1674. Part II. p. 316 to 167. p. 168 to 173. where also Dr. H. Moor is largely cited on the same subject in his Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity and Search into the Nature of a Glorified Body And as to what 's objected against R. Hubberthorn who was both a very Innocent Gifted and Knowing Man if rightly quoted his owning the Glorified Saints in Heaven to be in a State of Perfection and as having received the Redemption of the Body i. e. from the Bondage of Corruption and Sin even before they came thither This no ways contradicts our sincere Belief and Confession Of the Doctrine of the Resurrection from the Dead according to Holy Scripture Heb. 6. As to what is objected against G. W's Questions Is it i. e. the Glory of God visible to the Carnal Eye And of Christ's coming therein c. p. 46. I would ask this Rector Doest thou expect to see