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A87653	The Christian faith of the people of God, called in scorn, Quakers in Rhode-Island (who are in unity with all faithfull brethren of the same profession in all parts of the world) vindicated from the calumnies of Christian Lodowick, that formerly was of that profession, but is lately fallen there-from. As also from the base forgeries, and wicked slanders of Cotton Mather, called a minister, at Boston, who hath greatly commended the said Christian Lodowick, and approved his false charges against us, and hath added thereunto many gross, impudent and vile calumnies against us and our brethren, in his late address, so called, to some in New-England, the which in due time may receive a more full answer, to discover his ignorance, prejudice and perversion against our friends in general, and G.K. in particular, whom he hath most unworthily abused. : To which is added, some testimonies of our antient friends to the true Christ of God; collected out of their printed books, for the further convincing of our opposers, that it is (and hath been) our constant and firm belief to expect salvation by the man Christ Jesus that was outwardly crucified without the gates of Jerusalem.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Bradford, William, 1663-1752.; Thurstan, Edward.; Bull, Henry.; Bull, Anne.	1692 (1692)	Wing K151; ESTC W9990	12,798	20

that he hath consecrated for us through the Vail that is to say his fle●h And we believe That God the Father hath appointed the Man Christ Jesus to be the Judge of the Quick and the Dead and that he is to come to Judge all Mankind and that his Coming so to Judge all Mankind with the great and last Judgment is at the end of the World the which End of the World we do believe is not come either within us or without us as he doth falsly charge for the End of the World as the Scripture declareth it is the end of the Ages or Times of this World for the Times and Ages of this World shall have an End and God hath appointed a Day wherein he will judge the World in Righteousness by that Man Christ Jesus whom he hath ordained but of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man as Christ hath declared that all might be watchful And because according to Scripture Testimony we do faithfully believe that Christ hath also inwardly and spiritually appeared in the Hearts of men and that all true Christians do believe and own his inward Appearance and Revelation in them as he is the Word Light and Life in them in various Measures and Degrees of divine Revelation and that he is the true Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the World and that we Testifie that all should turn to his Light in them that convinceth of sin and should believe in it and obey and follow it and that all who so do will be led in due time to believe in him in whom the Fullness is and to receive the benefit of Christs Death and Resurrection in the outward therefore hath this Accuser joyned with Thomas Hicks a Baptist Teacher at London and John Faldo an Independent Teacher and divers others to accuse us as Denying the True Christ because we believe and confess to Christ's inward and Outward Coming and Appearance as if to believe and confess to Christ's Inward Coming and Appearance were to deny his Outward or to hold forth two Christs which is but their great Ignorance and Unbelief and no just Consequence of our Principle for the true Christ of G●d is One and the true Christians Faith receiveth and imbrace●h him whole and undivided and owneth his inward and outward Coming who as he did come without us in a state of Humiliation to suffe● and is risen and ascended into Heaven so he will come again without us to Judge the Quick and the Dead and all Mankind shall stand before him the Sheep on his Right Hand and the Goats on his Left And there shall be a Resurrection of the Body both of the Just and Unjust that is not attained already or immediately after Death but it is to be attained unto in the Time appointed of God called The Day of Judgment And seeing our Friends in England have fully answered to all these false Accusations of Thomas Hicks and John Faldo with whom Christian Lodowick hath joyned we refer to their Answers for the further Satisfaction of them who desire to have it And it is falsly charged upon us by Christian Lodowick in his Papers That according to our Principle all Honest and Conscientious Heathens or Gentiles who have not the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified outwardly and risen again c. and Jews and Mahometans are in Christ as well as we and true Christians Believers c. Nor doth this follow by any just Consequence from our Principles for though we do affirm That all Conscientious and Honest Gentiles such as Cornelius was before the Faith of Christ was preached to him have some measure of Light from Christ to enlighten them and are under some Administration of the Spirit yet it is but the first Ministration until the Knowledge and Faith of Christ as he dyed for our sins and rose again c. be spiritually received and such who have the true and saving Knowledge and Faith of Christ as he dyed and rose again without them spiritually receiving it by the Light and Spirit of Christ in them and wrought in them by that mighty Power that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead and which conformeth them to Christ in the like Virtues of Love Patience Humility Resignation c. so as to love Enemies are only Christians and Sons of God of the Free Woman having received the Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father but who have not this Faith of Christ crucified and raised again outwardly spiritually received and wrought in them by the Spirit of Christ whether they have or have not heard Christ outwardly preached unto them are at best however just and conscientious to the just Principle of God in them not under the Second and more peculiar Ministration of Gods Spirit that maketh men worthy to be esteemed Christians but are only under the first and such are held under the Custody or Safeguard of thhe Law shut up unto the Faith that is afterwards to be revealed as Paul hath declared Gal. 3.23 and the state they are in under this first Ministration is to them as the City of Refuge was to the Man-slayer under the Law and whereof it was a Tipe And this first Ministration of the Law and Light in them that answereth to Moses and the Prophets and to John who are faithful and conscientious under it prepareth them to receive the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified and raised again and fitteth them for the Second Ministration of the Spirit that bringeth them to witness the Spirit of Adoption and the Anointing that maketh them true Christians and conformeth them to Christ in the like Virtues so as to love Enemies and lay down the Life for Enemies which is more than meer honest conscientious Gentiles who have not the Faith of Christ crucified and raised again can do And whereas the said Christian Lodowick doth further accuse us That what we say we know of the Scriptures we should have known if it had never been writ according to our Principle This is f●lsly charged upon us as many other things in his Papers for though we believe and say that some things declared in Scripture we should have known if they had not been writ as that there is a God the Creator and Lord of Heaven and Earth that requireth us and all men by his Law and Light in us to live soberly and righteously and to fear love and worship him and divers other general things of great use and service to men according to Paul's Doctrine For the Invisible Things of God even his Eternal Power and Godhead are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made so that they are without Excuse for what is to be known of God is manifest within them yet the peculiar Doctrines and Mysteries of the Christian Faith as that Christ should be born of a Virgin dye for our sins and rise again and that he is both God and Man and many other the like

peculiar Mysteries of the Christian Faith we do acknowledge and have alwayes acknowledged that the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures as outwardly preached to us by holy Men or as Read by us in ●he holy Scriptures or having outward●y heard these things have been Instrumental by and together with the Immediate working of the Spirit of God to beget in us the Know●edge and Faith of them and we desire to bless God for the benefit of the h●ly Scriptures given us being able to make us wise unto Salvation through Faith in Ch●ist Jesus but that we prefer the Spirit to the Letter we are not ashamed to own before all men and that God and Christ and the Spirit whom they testifie of are above the Scriptures and greater than they we do freely acknowledge for all outward Testimonies Means Instruments and Helps such as the holy Scriptures and all outward Preaching and Men and Books are but Servants to God and Christ but God and Christ are Lord and Master and King overall to whom be Glory and Honour forever and ever And as to the final state of all honest and conscientious Gentiles who have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them either by the Ministry of Men or the holy Scriptures it sufficeth us to believe that God is not wanting to them and it is one God who is the God both of Christians and Gentiles and who shall justifie the Circumcision by Faith and the Uncircumcision through Faith Rom. 3.30 and it is no greater nor other difficulty to understand how Honest and Conscientious Gentiles can be saved by Christ Jesus of Nazareth than how Infants and Deaf and Dumb Persons so born can be saved which our Adversaries generally acknowledge and therefore they can have no advantage against us in that respect Edward Thurstan Joseph Nicholson Henry Bull Daniel Gould Anne Bull Jacob Mott Thomas Cornwall Walter Clark Thomas Roadman Rob Hutchins George Keith John Easton Ebenezer Slocum Here followeth some Testimonies Collected out of the Writings of our Antient Friends giving some account of their Faith and Belief The Principles of Truth by John Crook c. p 3 to 18. MAny are the Reports that are abroad concerning this People not only as to their Practices and Deportments but also as to Doctrines and Beliefs The former time having resolved and worn out as being the Refuge of Lyes but tho' the first be gone yet the latter sticks with many as not knowing what they hold as to Doctrine some saying They deny the Scripture and the Resurrection of the Body and all Ordinances with the Man Christ and his Death and Sufferings and Imputation of his Righteousness and Faith in his Blood c. Wherefore for the Satisfaction of all that would willingly be resolved and know the Truth I have written this short Account of their Faith and Belief 1st We believe That the God of all Grace has given a measure of Grace or some Manifestation of his Spirit and Light thereof unto all men who at some time or other do feel something in their Hearts and Consciences that doth lust against the Flesh and the Flesh against it and that these two are contrary the one to the other one lusting after Evil which is Evil and the other after good which is good 2dly We believe by this Gift Grace and Inspiration of the Almighty man only can come to know the true God truly what he is and how he works in the Hearts and Consciences of People to regenerate them and make them bear his Image 3. We believe That all the Errors and Mistakes about God and the things relating to his Kingdome sprang and arose from mens wandering from this Gift of God into their own Imaginations 4. We believe and know That this Gift and Grace of God appears in and unto all men that all may be without excuse accusing for the Evil and excusing for the good Rom. 2.15 5. We believe That wheresoever the Power of God is not known within there the Gospel is hid and unknown 6. Through this Gift we believe That Christ Jesus the Son of God was manifest in the Flesh in the fullness of Time and this we know by the same Spirit by which our Fathers believed he should come and Abraham saw his Day by the same we do believe he is come and do see his Day as also by the Prophets and Apostles Writings which Two-sold Cord is not easily broken 7. We believe also That this same Jesus hath God highly exalted and given him a Name above every Name that whosoever believes on him shall not perish but have Everlasting Life and that there is not another Name whereby any can be saved than this Name of Jesus Christ Nor is Remission of sins to be preached by any other Name 8. We believe That this Jesus dyed for or because of sin and rose again for the Justification of those that believe in him and that he thereby spoiled Principalities and Powers and triumphed over them openly and led Captivity captive in his own Person It is not a Belief from the Letter only that can give a man the saving Knowledge of the Death of Christ but he must have the same Power in measure working in him to beget Faith in his Heart that he may believe unto Salvation as well as confess with his Mouth And this man whoever he be Bond or Free that thus believes the Death of Christ and its Satisfaction to God cannot make it void nor divide it but will say Here is a dying man witnessing the Death of Christ and nevertheless the same man living with Christ and concluding if Christ had not dyed man must have perished in his Sin This being the way found out by God to recover him 9. By this Gift of God in our hearts we further believe That Christ Jesus rose again from the dead and sits at Gods right Hand in a glorious Body And we believe that our low Estates and humble Bodies shall be made like unto his glorious Body th ough the working of his mighty Power whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself and that this Mortality shall put on Immortality And we believe that Regeneration or the believing in the Light of Christ within doth not make void the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem no more than believing the Scripture Testimony without concerning Christs Death makes void the Work of Regeneration Mortification within but as the Apostle saith in another case so I say in this For as the Man is not without the Woman neither is the Woman without the Man in the Lord even so is not the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem to be made void and of none effect by any thing within neither doth the Light within make th●t of none effect without but both in the Lord answers his Will For though there is and may be a Knowledge and Belief of what Christ did and suffered without the Gates in his

dead dyeth no more Death hath no more dominion over him his dying was only as to the Body he was put to Death as concerning the Flesh therefore the Flesh was raised from the dead And it is so far circumscribed or encompassed in the Heavens as 't is capable of and as is proper to it and tho' it be spiritual and glorious yet a Body and therefore not in every place where God is To be Omnipresent is only proper to God and not to Bodies Q. How do they but deny the Manhood o● Christ that say the Body of Jesus is changed as to Substance and his Soul is in every Saint Answ 1st They do not deny the Manhood of Christ that say his Body is changed as to the Quality and Glory of it that it is a spiritual glorious Body in a higher state than when on Earth under Sufferings This is no annihilating of the Body 2ly That his Soul doth powerfully extend to and is in every Saint in some sence and degree This must needs be if it act tog●ther in Union with the Deity in perfecting all good in us as our Adversary has confessed as also that it is virtually in the Saints Tho' we grant that it is in more fullness in himself than in as yet of his fullness have we all received Q. They own they say the real Birth Sufferings and Resurrection of Christ but do they own his Intercession in his Manhood as an high Priest in Heaven Ans Yes we do he is entred into Heaven it self to appear in the face of God for us Note That we referred him for a more full answer than we have given about Christs Manhood to a Book entituled The Way cast Vp by G. Keith The real Quaker a real Protestant by G Whitehead p. 105 106. Priest says That two of his Neighbour Quakers told him That Christs Body did vanish at his ascention and that now he hath no other Flesh or Body but the Flesh or Body of his People Ans I deny it to be the Quakers mind that Christs Body did vanish so as to become annihilated at his ascention 't was changed and more glorified but not vanisht I am sensible that none in their right understanding or sence would give him any such mistaken answer or account concerning the Body of Christ that it so vnnisht as to become annihilated Christ has a glorious Body most near and proper to himself above and more excellent than all our earthly Bodies like unto which he will change our low humble Bodies P. 119. Christ hath a true and spiritual glorious Body whereof the Saints are Members Pag. 108. Pr. The Qrs. do believe that Christ God Man did never purchase the Redemption of any sinners by the price of his own Blood Ans We believe that Christ as Mediator hath obtain'd eternal Redemption for us and that by his own Blood that we might be sanctified redeemed from all Iniquity for which end he gave himself for us Pr. The Qrs. believe that deliverance from Condemnation is not by believing in Christ who dyed to save Sinners but by obeying the Light within Answ This is a Forgery again Christ his Light within are not to be divided in matter of Faith or Salvation We never opposed Christ who dyed for Sinners or Faith in his Name by believing or obeying the Light within Judgment fixt by G. Whitehead in answer to Jeffery Bullock viz. You Quakers do preach both Salvation and Justification and also Condemnation by the man Christ the Son of God as other Professions do and this Doctrine I would have you to prove because you preach Salvation by Christ the Light within It is no where written that we shall either be justified or condemned by that Christ which dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem but it is written by Grace are ye saved and by the Light of the World are ye condemned c. Ans Thou that canst not reconcile or see the consistency of Salvation by the Man Christ Jesus And by his Light within art gone from his Light into Imaginations Why hast thou not better observ'd the Gospel preacht by the Angel of the Lord to the Shepherds concerning Christ Jesus For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. The true Christ of God is but one tho' he hath appeared in divers manners both in the Flesh and in the Spirit he is the Light he is the Way to the Father he is the Saviour he is the one Mediator between God and Man even the Man Christ Jesus the heavenly glorious Man the Man that was promised to be for a hiding place who in the days of his flesh said I am the Light of the World This our one Lord Jesus Christ is our Light Life and Salvation he is Judge of quick and dead that Man by whom God will judge the World in Righteousness See also Tit. 2.11 where the saving Grace of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity c. are testified of therefore Salvation by that Christ through hi● Grace are not inconsistent pag. 326. Flesh Blood of Christ by I Pennington Preface I have often heard them the Quakers own Christ both inwardly outwardly yea I heard one of the Antients of them thus testifie in a publick Meeting many years since That if Christ had not come in the Flesh in the fullness of time to bear our sins in his own Body on the Tree and to offer himself up a Sacrifice for Mankind all mankind had utterly perished p. 16. Glorious was that appearance and manifestation of his Son in the flesh precious his Subjection holy Obedience to the Father His giving himself up to death for sinners was of great esteem in his Eye It was a spotless Sacrifice of great value and effectual for the Remission of sins and I do humbly acknowledge unto the Lord the Remission of my sins thereby Rob. Barclay's Apology p. 94 95 96. We do not intend to equal our selves to that holy Man the Lord Jesus Christ in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily nor to destroy the reality of his present existence for tho' we affi●m that Christ dwells in us yet not immediately but mediately he is the Head and we the Members now as the Soul of man dwells other ways and in a far more immediate manner in the Head and Heart than in the hands or legs so God dwelleth otherwise in the Man Jesus than in us We also freely reject the Heresie of Appollonarius who deny'd him to have any Soul but said the Body was only acted by the Godhead As also the Error of Euryches who made the Manhood to be wholly swallowed up of the Godhead wherefore as we believe he was a true and real man so we also believe that he continues so to be glorified in the Heavens in Soul and Body by whom God shall judge the World in the Great and General Day of judgment We believe all those things to have been certainly transacted which are recorded in the holy Scriptures concerning the Birth Life Miracles Sufferings Resurrection Ascention of Christ and we also believe that it is the Duty of every one to believe it to whom it pleases God to reveal it yea we believe it were Damnable Vnbelief not to believe when so declared And we believe that the Remission of sins which any partake of is only in and by virtue of that most satisfactory Sacrifice and no otherwise His Vindication of Apology p. 89. I do believe that the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was crucified at Jerusalem was again raised by the Power of God in which glorified Body the Lord Jesus Christ dwelleth Pag. 189. We are falsly charged with denying the outward appearance of Christ the real existence of Heaven and Hell as a place without us the Last and General Judgment the Resurrection of the Body for we really believe these things Much more might have been cited out of the Writings of our Antient Friends but this may suffice at this time to convince our Opposers that it hath been and is the firm Belief of the People call'd Quakers to expect Salvation by the Man Christ Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary was crucified for our sins and rose again for our Justification ascended into Heaven and ever liveth to make Intercession for us Faithfully Collected and Recommended to purusal by Will. Bradford FINIS