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spirit_n	adoption_n	father_n	receive_v	8,589	5	5.7408	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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