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A65892	The true ministers living of the Gospel, distinguished from the false ministers living upon tithes and forced maintenance. With a word of reproof (preceding the distinction) to the ministers of the nation, whose kingdom is already shaken and divided against itself. And the iniquity and antichristianism of that ministry which is upheld by forced maintenance, briefly discovered according to the scriptures of the Old and New Testament. In a brief reply to a book stiled, An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of quaeries, by John Bewick, who calls himself a minister of the Gospel, and rector of the parish church of Stanhop in Weredale in the county of Durham.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Bewick, John, d. 1671. An answer to a Quakers seventeen heads of quaeries.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1968	12,994	17

true Christ to be in their Affirming him to have a Body of Flesh and bones in the Heavens without blood in it as many have heard them Publikely Affirm which now they would deceitfully deny that they so Affirmed and say p. 26. that they determined not that his Body is a Body of Flesh and bones in Heaven without blood and so they have Preached and published that which they determined not but were doubtful of what deceit and confusion is here And how do they leave men in uncertainties I. H. and T. M. p. 11. say That a man may be a sinner by having sin in him and yet not sin and to prove it bring Rom. 7. 20. Paul did not the Evil c. To which I say that their words are as much as if they had said that a sinner sins not What folly is this which that of Rom. 7. 20. proves not for though there was that in Paul which was of God that sinned not yet when he did the Evil which he would not then he sinned in doing it Again these Diviners who are thus Confounded say he that doth Righteousness is Righteous as God is Righteous yea as Christ is Righteous not because there is no sin in him but because Christ is made to him of God his Righteousness and in him he is Righteous as Christ is Righteous Answ. What then hath Christ sin in him if a man be Righteous as Christ is Righteous when he hath sin in him this their Assertion would charge both Christ and them that are in him to have sin in them which is Blasphemy against Christ For in him is no Sin and he is made manifest to destroy Sin And to our Question which was what one Sin or Sinnes can they lay to Paul or Iames or Iohn's charge or to any of them that they were not perfectly freed from before their Decease Let them prove some sin which was not destroyed in any of those before their Decease or for ever be silent from pleading for sin or accusing the Righteous as they have done as also we asked them what sin can they prove that Nathaniel had in him when he had no guile in him To which I. Horn and T. Moore Reply page 13. That it is enough that we believe Paul James and John that they had Sin and did in many things offend though we cannot name their Particular offences as it is to believe multitudes to have dyed though we know not of what Particular Diseases c. and in page 20. They tell us we may as well say seeing the Scripture Witnesses that the Children of Korah dyed not in the Iudgement that befell Korah and his Company what Disease they dyed of and if they cannot prove that they dyed of some Disease then they are Confuted if they believe and hold that they dyed they say Answ. Here any Impartial Reader may see how these men are Confounded who have accused the Saints to have Sin in them and to offend in many things while they lived upon Earth and now cannot prove any one sin that they were not perfectly freed from before their Decease or which was not destroyed in them before their Decease so that here all may see how Ignorantly they have accused the Saints and how far short of proving their Assertion they are for any of the Saints confessing any of their present states or failings does not at all prove that they were offenders or had sin in them so long as they lived as these said accusers would have it and as to their saying that multitudes have dyed though they know not of what Particular diseases and if they cannot prove that they dyed of some disease then they are confuted if they believe that they dyed to that I say thus their comparison will not hold but is foolish neither will it follow from what we propounded for it is evident that multitudes have dyed as it is appointed for men once to dye But they have not so proved that all the Saints were Sinners or had sin in them so long as they lived according to their Assertion And to their saying that David implies Sins in them though forgiven and covered in whose Spirit is no guile Psa. 32. 1 2. here they have added their own words unto Davids for he spake of such unto whom the Lord imputeth not Iniquity whose sin is covered and in whose Spirit is no guile nor can any say that their sin is thus covered when they sin or that it shall not be imputed to them while they are guilty of it for does not the Light of Christ discover in man his sin and reprove him for it when he is guilty of it They that know it can tell though it s hid from these said accusers Again I. H. and T. M. say David saith no man living is so free from sin as to be justified if God enter into Iudgment with them and to prove it bring Psa. 143. 2. Answ. This is a lye against David for these are not his words he said not that no man living is so free from sin as to be justified c. For when the enemy had persecuted Davids Soul and had Smitten his Life down to the Ground he said enter not into Judgment with thy Servant O Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be Justified Which relates to that state wherein the Enemy hath Power that the life is Smitten down to the Ground and man cannot be Justified but thorow the death to that which Judgment is to So this Scripture they have brought proves no more that the Saints are not freed from sin in this life then it does that they are not Justified in Gods sight while in this life when as the Saints were Justified from that which the Judgments of God was to and such could say its not I that live but Christ in me To our saying touching Christs Body that the Body is one and hath many Members 1 Cor. 12. 12. I. H. and T. M. answer that 's said both of a Personal and Mistical body or Society in different sences and then they say true also that the body of Christ either Personal or Mistical is not Carnal but Spiritual REP. Here they darken the minds of the simple by words which they have no Scripture for for the Scripture no where speaks of Christ having a Personall body and a Mistical body and yet both Spiritual For if he hath two Spiritual bodies wherefore do they say the one is Personal and the other Mistical as if then both were not Mistical and whence came that distinction in these words from the Papists What is not that which is Spiritual Mistical according to their own words but Paul saith as the body is one and hath many Members so also is Christ and now are they many Members yet but one body 1 Cor. 12. 12 20. and there is one body and one Spirit Ephes. 4. 4. but I. Horn in a Paper to me saith that Jesus hath a humane Body and Soul * where does the Scripture say that Christs Soul is humane For his Soul is divine and immortal mens natural or earthly bodies are humane and the Apostle distinguisheth between them and the Spiritual bodies 1 Cor. 15. 40 44. so that Christ hath a glorious Spiritual body in Heaven which few can discern distinct from mens terestrial or natural bodies wch are humane now if Christ hath a natural or humane body a Spiritual body his Church too which is his body which they call his Mistical body may they not as well say he hath three bodies And then why not as well four or five bodies But their Ignorance about the natural and the Spiritual bodies is so plainly discovered in our Book intituled a Brisf Discovery of the Dangerous Principles c. in which the Truth is so clearly * which is as much as to say not Christ in them but Christ in men and that his riches is not the possession what folly is this * That which is humane is earth'y as humanus homo are of humus the ground from whence man was taken so that a humane Soul is an earthly Soul what then hath Christ both an earthly Soul and a divine Soul in him