the Prophets and Apostles did for something commanded in Scripture is and may be truly in it self a Duty for all but cannot be truly understood nor performed without the Assistance and Guidance of the Holy Spirit and that Spirit will not be wanting to assist in both as truly heeded 5. I never knew our Friends the Quakers so called deny the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust though probably your gross Sense thereof but we have only pleaded for the Spiritual Celestial and Glorious Bodies in the Resurrection as far excelling the Natural Earthly and Corruptible Bodies and sincerely believing the Holy Scriptures in that Case Luke 20.35 36. Joh. 5.28 1 Cor. 15. Hosea 13.14 Phil. 3.20 6. I never knew our Friends the People called Quakers deny the Body of Christ that suffered to be raised from the Grave or Sepulchre but divers declare their Belief to the contrary namely That his Flesh saw no Corruption or did not Corrupt but rose again the Third Day and that Christ in the same Body Ascended into Heaven yea also that he ascended far above All Heavens that he might fill all things 7. As to that Point of your Water-Baptism and your Bread and Wine you must excuse us we are not yet satisfied that they are Gospel-Ordinances and to continue always in Force under the Gospel and New Covenant-Dispensation being a Dispensation of Substance and not of Shadows nor do we believe that you Baptists have any immediate Call from Heaven to Baptize People in Water nor that your observing Breaking of Bread or Drinking of Wine can properly be called the Lord's Supper either in the Figure or in the Substance yet we do not Despise or Contemn either Water-Baptism or Breaking of Bread as we are falsly accused as once practised nor as observed by such now as are Conscientious therein from a Belief that 't is their Duty to observe the same we charitably think they mean well therein but wish they might more mind and partake of the Substance both as to the Spiritual Baptism and the Bread of Life from Heaven for their poor Souls Relief and Safety in Christ the Substance 8. We never held that pernicious Tenet of Believing That no Blessedness is to be enjoyed by the Saints after Death as is most unjustly insinuated against us from Suggestions grossly false p. 9. and elswhere detected 9. We never denyed Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits much less call it a Doctrine of Devils as we are most horridly belied p. 9. as is clearly evinced 10. We are not ashamed to say and affirm That Christ is the Light of the World and that he is that True Light that enlightens every Man coming into the World and that God is our Light and our Salvation and is not this Divine Light within think ye Doth not both God and Christ in some degree appear within to be known within suppose ye else how should that which may be known of God be manifest within seeing there 's no knowledg of God but by Christ 11. And as to Billingsgate Complements charg'd and for Moderate and Mild Treatment of our Antagonists The truth on 't is the former I like not but the latter I am truly for Moderation and Mildness even in treating Antagonists if they are any whit Treatable Rational or Fair Opponents But if I find an opposing Adversary guilty of Envy Lying Forgeries gross Perversions Wresting and Turning my Words to a contrary Sense than they naturally import or ever was intended by me then I hope I may tell and shew him his evil and injurious Work and justly reprehend him for the same and yet I not be justly deem'd guilty of Billingsgate Complements or Rhetorick either for I can make no better of a gross Lye or Forgery than 't is nor give it a better Character than it deserves or that lying Spirit from whence it comes which I have plentifully met with in Edw. Paye's Works of Envy against us for which I think he justly deserves to be paid off by just Reprehension And of his mild Treatment you may hear anon To excuse his envious and scornful Story from our Persecuting Adversaries the Westmorland Petitioners about Sorcery cited in his other Pamphlet against the Meetings of the People called Quakers p. 7 8. Antichrist in Spirit Now E. P. saith viz. For my part I have seen them Quake and Foam at the Mouth besides several that have been Eye and Ear-Witnesses of it Railings p. 10. But neither tells us the Persons nor in what Meeting or what Place he saw them in both those Postures nor who else besides himself were the Eye and Ear-Witnesses thereof And what reason have we to believe his Testimony any more in this than in many other notorious Falshoods And Corrupt Notions and Deceivable Gestures p. 11. he hath not proved against us But instead of Proof is now fain to beg Questions and come to his Supposition viz. Suppose you formerly used to Quake Tremble Roar Swell and Foam at the Bull and Mouth in London the Westmorland Petitioners may say true c. p. 11. See how faintly he comes off for those Westmorland Petitioners and their Story to render us odious As for Quaking and Trembling I ask him If these be the Deceivable Gestures which he accuseth us of And as to Roaring Swelling and Foaming which he would fain Insinuate against us I neither know nor remember these Gestures among our Friends at the Bull and Mouth Meeting or elsewhere in London ever since I knew the Meeting in that place which has been above 34 Years E. P. grants Christ present in Spirit but the reason of Fasting his being personally taken from them into the glorious Heavens above beyond the Stars and they obliged to Prayer and Fasting c. till his second personal Coming p. 15. Whereas Christ assigned another cause of Prayer and Fasting even when personally present with his Disciples for the casting out the unclean Spirit Mark 9.29 and the Apostles approving themselves Ministers in Watchings in Fastings by Pureness c. 2 Cor. 6.5 was not because of Christ's personal or outward absence And as for your being obliged to Prayer and Fasting 'till Christ's second personal coming I do not believe you 'l fast so long G. W. denies not Quaking and Trembling quoth E. P. p. 16. And what then Was that all the Instance the Westmorland Petitioners were brought for Does that prove either Sorcery or a Diabolical Spirit Swellings or Foamings in our Meetings as they insinuated or deceivable Gestures as he has accused us Where proves he Quaking and Trembling without exception deceivable Gestures Or so called in Scripture Pag. 18. E. P. I have it 's true examin'd the Quakers Appeal by way of Charge against Tho. Hicks wherein they charge him with Lies and Slanders and Forgeries And I have perused Mr. Hicks 's Answer to their Appeal where Mr. Hicks clears himself both of Lies and Forgery I find his Answer to their Appeal subscribed
and yet I did not call you Anabaptists on that score nor in derision as is wrongfully suggested p. 12. but only for distinction-sake my words at first being the People commonly called Anabaptists p. 1 'T is far from me to design any derision or to put any ridicule upon the People so called from E. Paye's particular abuses for I hope as some of them are more honest than himself so many of them will be ashamed of his malicious Pamphlets tho' he pretends the Approbation of several since p. 38. which we have little cause to credit without their own testimony for some eminent among that People have declared their dislike of his work already And it will be far more for their credit and reputation to stop him from his scribling to defame others than to suffer him to persist therein And as to his Challenging any to charge and prove against him any thing unbecoming a Man and a Christian respecting either Life or Principles Human Frailties excepted p. 38. I ask him if to bear false witness against his Neighbours to belie slander and defame them to take up reproaches against them to pervert and corrupt their words to gather up credit and publish their Adversaries malicious Defamations against them all which E. P. is proved notoriously guilty of be either becoming a Man or a Christian or be to do as he would be done unto What an easie matter is it for a wicked person to write malicious Pamphlets at that rate Or must these Enormities be reputed only as Human Frailties Will his Religion and Conscience allow him to slander to lie to defame others and yet for all that to be a moral Man and good Christian and Minister to others I am sure the just God will not so esteem him nor any one else in such a state Upon a serious View and Observation of the Method which he E. Paye c. has taken up against the People commonly call'd Quakers I find it thus 1. To quote and cite divers of their Adversaries Invectives against them 2. To mis-cite and abuse some of their own Authors Books and Writings against them sometimes leaving out the most emphatical Expressions in the middle and sometimes in the end of a Sentence and many times the most explanatory part of their Answers thereby greatly altering perverting and corrupting matters contrary both to the Authors own Words and Expressions 3. To invent and forge notorious falshoods contrary to our express Christian Profession and Perswasion 4. From such indirect and unjust Premises to draw his own perverse and evil Consequences against the People called Quakers in general to render them and their whole Society and Profession as odious and obnoxious as he can 5. Divers of his Authors to whom he has given credit and whose odious defamations he has raked up against us were persecuting Priests and others of party with them who were as much enemies to the Baptists as to us and long since answered and refuted 6. He is so credulous as he seems to take all for granted that such Adversaries have maliciously writ against us but in many cases takes no notice of our Answers to them and where he doth he is very subject to pervert mince curtailize and abuse them as before Now I am perswaded the Ministers and People of the baptized Societies would not be thus served after such injurious Methods And to me and divers others 't is a wonder that those Ministers and Elders of that Society who appear more discreet and judicious than this injurious Adversary E. P. do not give a severe check to him and put a stop to his perverse and contentious Scribling tending to Strife and to aggravate Divisions and cause Animosities among Neighbours and to make Breaches wider among People and rather seek Peace Mutual Love and Charity among all for I must tell them these crooked Methods which E. P. takes will be no small disrepute and disparagement to them that are of the same Society with him or that own him as a Brother or Minister among them And since in conclusion of his last he has given us a Threat as if he would frighten us That if he be foolishly provoked we may it is like have a quarterly Packet to keep our Fame in remembrance And truly if he will be so foolish as to be foolishly provoked or to make a foolish Provocation the ground of his Packets or Pamphlets against us we shall have little cause to be affrighted or deterred by his Threat from making our Just Defence and now since he has so loudly alarum'd us he has given us occasion to watch him narrowly and warily really believing he 'l make no great earnings of such his undertaking nor advantage of his atchievements but bring Infamy upon himself and an unnecessary Charge upon others and be no small Disparagement to his own Society I have traversed the Controversies long since and I bless God that he has made me a Witness for his Truth and for Christianity in Life and Power even from my Youth upward against Deceit Envy and Hypocrisie that I have seen in these our Adversaries and Opposers what personal Detractions or Reflections I meet withal I value not my Innocence and Christian Conversation being well known to many and my inward Peace with the Lord in my own Conscience but wherein I find the Truth abused and God's Heritage reproached I am constrained in God's holy Fear and Zeal to stand up for Truth and in its Vindication against its Adversaries and Gainsayers and their Contradictions and hope ever shall so long as the Lord gives Life and Ability And I humbly thank the Lord my God who hath hitherto helped and supported me and many more in his Work and Service and in Christian Love and Good-will towards all Men. G. Whitehead The Conclusion I Have hitherto been mostly on the Defensive Part to remove these Adversaries Calumnies and Misrepresentations of our Principles much I have to except against divers of their Unsound Doctrines particularly about the great stress they lay on their Water-Baptism and what they call The Lord's Supper 't is easy to make it appear that they exactly run parallel with the Rhemists in the manner of their defending ther Water-Baptism and the great Weight they place upon it contrary to Scripture and the Doctrine of the Ancient Protestants Please to take a View of some of these Baptists Doctrines and some brief Observations and Questions upon them as followeth 1. That by Baptism i. e. Water-Baptism we must put on Christ and so become Members of his Mystical Body Heirs of the Promise of the Holy Spirit c. Antichrist in Spirit p. 69. Observ. This is Popish Doctrine and contrary-to the Apostle's See 1 Cor. 12 13. 2. That the highest Attainments or greatest Measures of the Holy Spirit do but fit Men for Gospel Ordinances p. 64. Whereof their Water-Baptism is rendred a Sacred or Holy one p. 57 63. Qu. Where doth the Scriptures say That
following are left out viz. as received and proceeding immediately from that Spirit and spoken in the Sense thereof as Christ's Words were of greater Authority or Power when he spake than the Pharisees reading the Letter and them in whom that Spirit speaks not and their Speaking we deny whereby I did prefer the Spirit in it's Living and Powerful Ministry above the Letter but not a Word of preferring any Pamphlets to the Holy Scriptures God knows it never entred into my Heart to prefer any Pamphlets or Books extant in the World much less Lying Ones before the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament but do prefer and esteem them before all other Books or Writings extant whatsoever When Humphry Smith 's True and Everlasting Rule came in date the Scriptures became no better than an Old Almanack this from a Story of Tho. Hicks against one Tho. Holbrow though we know no such Person Dialogue p. 27. to which Edward Paye c. addeth these Words viz. These are the Men that in their Pamphlets profess so high an Esteem for the Holy Scriptures Antichrist in Spirit p. 13. Pray observe here These Men here accused with esteeming the Scriptures no better than an Old Almanack are therein most wickedly belied and scandaliz'd being those of us who publisht the Paper in Print entituled The Christianity of the People commonly called Quakers asserted wherein we sincerely declare the quite contrary to what 's here implicitly charged by E. P. c. against us namely That we do believe and own the Holy Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration c. Tho. Hicks in his Dialogue I. p. 24 25. and Edward Paye c. on his Credit Falsly and Wickedly Personate the Quaker thus viz. When we make use of Scripture it is only to Quiet and Stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule but for us had the Scriptures never been we could have known what is therein contained I hope quoth Edward Paye the Reader by this may perceive the Reason why the Quakers talk so much of Scripture in their Paper Observe we own not the Scripture we seemingly allow it but our End in this is only to stop their Clamours that plead for it as their Rule You see here quoth E. P. the condescending Spirits of these Men c. Antichrist p. 15. We do in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ utterly deny this Passage and Declaration as laid down in the Quakers Name and Person as no Declaration or Speech made or thus declarable by the Quakers on their Principle but a Horrid Abusive Forgery of Thomas Hicks long since detected and which you Baptists now may be horribly ashamed to bring forth or suffer to be renewed in Print The Names they i. e. the Quakers give the Holy Scriptures viz. No better than an Old Almanack a Dead Carnal Letter p. 18. But on second Consideration E. P. deems it a difficulty to prove that the Quakers do now in the present Tense say The Holy Scriptures are but a Dead or Carnal Letter as his other Pamphlet Raylings p. 23 24. and yet chargeth them in the present Tense with giving such Names to the Holy Scriptures but now 't is a Difficulty to prove his own Charge Among the Names which E. P. falsly chargeth the Quakers to give the Holy Scriptures viz. That they are the Precepts and Traditions of Men p. 18. That Obedience to the Scriptures is the Harlot's Child p. ibid. These are both utterly denyed by us the said People and the pretended Proof of the first is hereafter examined and proved false The latter I really believe could never be so said nor ever was held by the Quakers so to term sincere Obedience to the Holy Scripture but rather to reflect upon an Hypocritical Profession and Imitation of some Shadows and outwardward Things and neglecting the Substance of the New Covenant Dispensation That the Heaven they i. e. the Quakers intend wherein the three Divine Witnesses bear Record is No where else but within their Mortal Corrupt Bodies they intend no other Heaven than what is within them Antichrist in Spirit p. 20 21. This is expressly contrary to our known professed Principle of the omnipresence of God and his Spirit both in Heaven above and in Earth beneath and whom the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain And I take the Charge to be but E. P's own Consequence which he himself has drrawn from some Words he has partially and mincingly taken up against James Parnell Thomas Lawson Edward Burroughs c. First For a Pretext quoting James Parnell's Book as he calls it Satan's Design Discovered But I know no Bok of James Parnell's so entituled upon the Reviewing the Titles of his Books nor any of the rest quoted that oppose or disown God's Omnipresence much less that the People called Quakers are guilty of any such Charge I would desire E. P. if he will still be so injurious as to reassume this Charge against the People called Quakers that he would yet be so ingenious as fairly and fully to cite the whole Passages of the Authors quoted by him relating to the Matter intended and for Proof of his Charge without his own Consequences and Perversions That if it shall appear that any of them have opposed or denyed the Omnipresence of God or his Eternal Spirit we may shew our dislike thereof But I believe there 's enough in our Friends Books to clear them if honestly viewed and cited and we have great cause to Question and detect his unfair Citations as I have this following Instance against my self for Proof of his said Charge 8. Quoting Dipper plung'd Christ without us is not Scripture Language but the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians Antichrist in Spirit p. 22. But E. P. in his other Pamphlet Railings p. 29. varies in his Repetition of his Charge thus viz. G. W. Dipper plung'd Jesus Christ a Person without us is not Scripture-Language c. Observe here in the one it is Christ without us where after Christ E. P. leaves out God-Man a Person i. e. without us which I said is not Scripture-Language c. In the other it is Jesus Christ a Person without us is not Scriture-Language where after Christ he leaves out God-man again and yet both charged by the same Credulous Person E. P. though both be falsly cited and unjustly charged upon me as mine For to Tho. Hick's strange Phrase viz. Jesus Christ God-man a Person without thee Dial. p. 9. My Answer was This is not Scripture Language but the Anthropomorphites and Muggletonians who profess a personal God denying him to be an Infinite Spirit Dipper plung'd p 13. Wherein my Objection was not against the Words Jesus Christ without us for he is both without us and within us but my Question was of the Words God-man a Person without us including God as well as the Man Christ Jesus as
by a Mediate or Immediate Inspiration or Revelation p. 21. And what follows If by neither of these ways we can resolve him then not to pretend to Immediate Inspiration And yet he himself pretends to Mediate or more Common Gifts of the Spirit and then confusedly tells of the use of these more immediate or common Gifts p. 19 20. And yet by these his pretended more immediate or common Gifts of the Spirit or rather mediate Gifts in his sense I presume he cannot resolve himself his Two Questions before nor can he upon his own Principle either resolve them or be resolved them either by any mediate or immediate Gifts For the immediate he has disclaimed he needs it not he says but pretends the Scriptures to be the Only Rule of Faith By what Rule then should he be resolved what those or any of those other things were that are not written John 20.25 Therefore he has insincerely and temptingly imposed unlearned Questions and Propositions which he does not believe can be resolved to his conviction or satisfaction and thereupon has past unjust Judgment against our having immediate Inspiration yet in contradiction to himself tells us of common and more immediate Gifts and Graces of the Spirit and of the use of these more immediate or common Gifts to help our Infirmities p. 19 20. Altho I presume he would be loath to have his own Judgment and Condemnation against us return'd upon himself on the same condition For 't is certain he that has not the Spirit of Christ is none of his And what are these more immediate Gifts and Graces of the Spirit he pretends to the use of seeing he and his Brethren pretend not to immediate or extraordinary Inspirations p. 19 20. There 's another Contradiction in the Case to prove their Call to Baptize People in Water He saith they have a sufficient Call for it from the Commission of Christ our Great Prophet who is to be heard in all things Matth. 28. Mark 16. and the frequent Examples of his Apostles c. So that we need not immediate Inspirations for our Call or Authority herein p. 21. Ans. Which is to tell us you may take upon you to be Preachers and Baptizers in Water without being inspired by Christ because he gave a Commission to his Disciples to teach all Nations baptizing them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost But 1. This is no proof that you are called by Christ to either 2. Here 's no Water mention'd in the Commission 3. And to baptize into that Name is a work of the Spirit attending a living and spiritual Ministry given and authorized by Christ himself which this proves not yours to be no more than that the false Prophets were true and truly commissionated because they said thus saith the Lord when yet God never spoke to them no more than Christ hath spoke to you to Preach and Baptize with Water when as you do both without his immediate Inspiration Commission or Spirit and consequently you do not hear him in all things 4. Neither does it follow that you hear Christ because you Preach and Baptize People in Water by imitation of others whom he sent to Preach and Convert People by his Spirit whereby they did Minister 5. You might as well argue that because Peter James John and Paul c. were Apostles and Ministers of Christ therefore we Edward Paye and William Allcott c. are Ministers of Christ. 6. If Reading Christ's Commission to his Disciples Mat. 28. Mar. 16. be sufficient authority for persons to turn Preachers and then to tell People they hear Christ because they read his said Commission and presume to take it upon them without immediate Inspiration from him why may not the Priests of England c. be his Ministers as well as you and why do you dissent from them Thus we see how you have proved your Call and Authority for what you pretend even as well as any sensual Impostors blind Guides and Deceivers may On Rom. 10.6.7 8. E. P. saith neither did the holy Apostle understand the Word here to be Christ p. 22. Ans. How does he answer the Questions then which the Righteousness of Faith gives answer to Say not in thy Heart who shall ascend into Heaven that is to bring Christ from above Or who descend into the Deep that is to bring Christ again from the dead But what saith it The Word is near thee c. Is this all one as to say the Scripture is near thee even in thy Mouth and Heart Or was the Enquiry after the Scripture Who shall ascend or descend to fetch me the Scriptures No sure Was not the antecedent Question of Christ And surely none can savingly believe with the Heart and in true Faith confess with the Mouth that God hath raised Christ from the dead so as to be saved but by that Living Word of Faith in the Heart which works a true and living Faith therein and therefore that Word of Faith which begets and works this Faith is Christ in Spirit who is the Author of this Faith otherwise the Questions who shall fetch Christ c. are not answered For where with the Heart Man believeth unto Righteousness and with the Mouth maketh Confession unto Salvation Rom. 10.10 he must needs first feel that Living Word of Faith in his Heart to work that Faith in him which produceth that Righteousness in Man which attends Salvation 'T is true that I did complain of E. P.'s injurious way of Writing in accusing us with giving better or higher Titles to our own Books than to the Holy Scripture instancing that of H. Smith's Book where E. P. gave these words only for the Title A True and Everlasting Rule being but the first words of the Title and leaving out the next following in the same Sentence viz. From God discovered This I did deem very disingenuous Now to extenuate and excuse the Offence he asks me Does those Words from God discovered added to The True and Everlasting Rule diminish the Heighth of the Title p. 23. Answ. Yes as the first Part was only by E. P. attributed to the Book contrary to the Design of the Title and Matter contained in the Book to which the Title had plain reference as taken together entirely that True and Everlasting Rule from God discovered being the Holy Spirit the Eternal Light and Manifestation of Christ within or what may be known of God being manifest in Man plainly testified unto in the said Book as that True and Everlasting Rule that was from God discovered so the Perversion and Abuse is plain I think E. P. might have spared his Labour of giving the Reader a Breviate of what he Ironically calls The Sweet Convincing Language the Quakers use to treat their Antagonists withal unless his own Language had been sweeter and more convincing than it is and less Partial and Abusive in his Accusations as to Matter
they know not but what they know naturally as Bruit Beasts in those things they corrupt themselves 11. Wo unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain c. 12. These are Spots in your Feasts of Charity c. 13. Raging Waves of the Sea foaming out their own Shame wandring Stars to whom he is reserved the Blackness of Darkness for ever Many other Instances might be given of the Prophets Christ his Servants and Ministers giving severe Judgment against the Wicked And what think you now do not these Instances contain as much Sharpness of Language and Judgment if not rather more as either the said E. B. or any of our Friends have given their Envious Adversaries and yet 't were not warrantable to compare them to the Muggletonians much less to the Devil's Vileness or prodigious Arrogancy The Lord open these Men's Eyes and soften their hard Hearts and make them more charitable if it may yet stand with his good Pleasure And I perceiving the very same Bitter Envious Spirit of Persecution in these present Adversaries Pamphlet styled Antichrist in Spirit I could do no less than tell them of their Hypocrisy Envy and Bitterness their Turbulent Persecuting Lying Spirit their Gross Lyes and Falshoods c. for which I am not condemned of the Lord nor conscious to my self of Wrong done them for these Evils are apparent in them but really believe the Just God will Rebuke and Judge them and plead our Innocency And seeing Ed. Paye upbraids us with the Sweet Convincing Language of the Quakers I will not so unequally retaliate and say I shall give the Reader a Breviate of the Sweet Convincing Language the Anabaptists use to treat their Antagonists withal But to speak in his Terms of the Sweet Convincing Language which Edw. Paye and his Brethren Will. Allcott and H. Loader have treated the People commonly called Quakers withal in their said Pamphlet Antichrist in Spirit viz. Quakerism a great Delusion their Deceit their pretended Faith proved a Counterfeit Title their Profession a Labyrinth of Confusion a Compound of Heresies corrupt Notions Equivocal Reserves Proud Boastings the Pride and Ignorance of these Impostors these deluded Impostors the Quakers great Enemies to and Contemners of Holy Scriptures The Quakers dream This Generation of Impostors the Quakers who say Behold he Christ is within thee to deceive the Hearts of the Simple Horrid Blasphemy They labour to keep a Christian-Mask over their Anti-Christian Face a Bundle of Blasphemy Could the Devil himself have been more Vile Why should these Impostors talk of the Blood of Christ their Pofession but a Painted and Deceitful Flourish The Quakers Grand Deluders Blasphemous Absurdities By no means their Word must be taken blasphemous Confidence The Title on each Page is Quakerism a great Delusion above 70. times over and Turn to the Light within saith the Quaker 7. times over in three Pages repeated in Derision and set in Opposition to Christ's Doctrine c. The Spirit of Delusion and gross Ignorance in the Quakers These Clouds of Popish Darkness These Men care not for the Scriptures except it be to abuse them A Spirit of Delusion Their impertinent Evasions and manifold Corruptions of the Scriptures The Quakers are greatly deluded What Horrid Contradictions and gross Absurdities attend this Spirit of Delusion The Quakers vainly feed themselves with Wind in Imagining that they have the Holy Spirit who rebel against Christ contemn his Blood despise his Ordinances c. With much more such like Treatment in their said Pamphlet in pages 8 16 18 20 24 25 28 29 34 35 37 39 40 43 46 54 55 56 58 62 64 69 70 71 75 76. which as 't is unmerited so it is utterly denyed by us Take a View farther of some of Edw. Pay's Sweet Language he treats us withal to convince us in his Second Pamphlet styled Railings and Slanders detected viz. The Folly and Heresies of the Quakers Quakerism a great Delusion in the Title Slanderous confused Raileries Ill-shapen Cub Your Defects in Truth and Reason Gross and abominable Errors All their Authors Books full of Railings and Blasphemy that they have formerly called it a Doctrine of Devils viz. Justification by Christ's Works Righteousness and Merits which is an abominable Falshood I have seen them Quake and Foam at the Mouth Your Corrupt Notions and Deceivable Gestures Suppose you formerly used to Quake Tremble Roar Swell Foam c. G. W. an old Stickler for Quakerism Mr. J. Faldoe saith How generally were their Meetings either Silent or taken up with sudden and violent Eruptions of dismal Howlings and horrid Ravings Shaking and Foaming at the Mouth c. G. W. is so daringly Confident his Impertinent and Absurd Evasions This small Bundle of Railery written by G. W. Like raging Bears Their Ragings The confused Profession of Faith that G. W. makes p. 1 2 6 7 9 10 11 12 15 22 24 27 28 34. I am not willing to trouble the Reader in this Place with more of E. P's sweet Treatment or rather his sowre scurrilous Contemning and undeserved Detractions he had better have let what he calls the Quakers Sweet Convincing Language alone than to have reflected so scornfully upon us unless his own had been sweeter than 't is and more Convincing and obliging though I confess this his latter Pamphlet is not quite so bad as the other An Examination of those Exceptions and Passages which Edward Paye has set opposite as the Quakers Contradictions of their Profession of Faith in his said Pamphlet styled Railings and Slanders detected Excep SMith's Primmer p. 9. They that are false Ministers preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above p. 29. and not within also nor in Peoples Hearts they preach Christ without and in Heaven only excluding him Men's Hearts as William Smith's Book shews that to be his Intention Excep Your Carnal Christ. Who so wrote and on what occasion We know not But suppose if any Quaker did he struck at some Carnal Imaginations about Christ for the true Christ of God could not be intended for he is a Spiritual Divine and Heavenly Christ. Exc. Your imagined God beyond the Stars Who hath so writ I know not nor on what occasion but if any among us did the Intent was this viz. That the True God is not such a God as you or some Men imagine he is not an imagined God limited or circumscribed only beyond the Stars but is also on this Side the Stars a Real True Infinite and Omnipresent God both in the highest Heavens and lowest Hearts 'T is true I did question some Socinians and Baptists their defining Christ under the Terms of a Personal Being a Human Body and consisting of a Human Body asking them what they meant by Human Body in Heaven And if Human Body be not an Earthly Body Appendix to Reason against Railing printed in 1673. p. 21 22. This is impertinently alledged against me by E. P. p.
the highest Attainments of the Holy Spirit do but fit Men for Water-Baptism as if that were higher than those Attainments or the Spirit Inferior to the Element of Water 3. But in contradiction to themselves herein they tell us That Water-Baptism is the initiating and ingrafting Ordinance whereby the Penitent Believer puts on Christ p. 68. Obs. For which they quote and misapply Gal. 3.27 which shews That it is by Faith in Christ Jesus that they were Children of God being baptized into Christ v. 26 27. and Rom. 11.19 20 23. 4. That there is but one Baptism in a full and proper Sense and that is that of Water in which the Penitent Believer is Buried for which they unduly quote Coll. 2.12 Rom. 6.4 and on Eph. 4.5 say To be Baptized with Water is the one Baptism Pa. 66 67. Obs. This appears directly Popish Doctrine and accordingly held by the Rhemists contrary to the Protestants and wholy excludes Christ's Baptism by the Holy Spirit 5. 1 Pet. 3.21 Applyed to Water-Baptism as the Baptism that doth now save us the End whereof is the Answer of a good Conscience towards God p. 67. Obs. If Water-Baptism be the one-saving Baptism then out of the Baptist's-Church there is no Salvation This is not only Popish but contrary to that very Scripture 1 Pet. 3.2 that Saving Baptism being not the putting away the Filth of the Flesh c. 6. That our saying Water-Baptism was a Figure of the Spiritual is an apparent Falshood p. 68. Ob. No 't is an apparent Truth John's Baptism was a Figure of Christ's Saving Spiritual Baptism and Washing of Regeneration See Matth. 3.11 Mar. 1.8 Luke 3.16 Joh. 1.26 27. Tit. 3.5 6. 7. That Christ is not come because that Kingdom is not come that Christ speaks of I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the Vine 'till I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom Matt. 26.29 Luke 22.18 p. 73. compared with p. 74. In that Kingdom they neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they dye any more Luk. 20.35 36. Qu. How then shall they drink new Wine with Christ in that World to come and in that State wherein they shall be equal with the Angels of God in Heaven suppose ye And as neither can they dye any more so neither shall they Hunger nor Thirst any more Rev. 7.16 Isaiah 49.10 What occasion for New Wine then 8. That his Disciples upon Earth are to Break and Eat Bread and Drink of the Fruit of the Vine till he come to wit in a Personal Glorious and Visible manner Phil. 3 2â— Who shall change our vile Bodies and make them like his own glorious Body at Christ's second personal coming visible in his Body of Flesh and Bones p. 73 74. Qu. And shall those glorious Bodies then have occasion to drink New Wine with Christ in his Father's Kingdom do you think or are you not rather too Carnal in your Expectations in this Matter whilst you mean literally and then do you not delay and put off the Spiritual Eating and Drinking with Christ Rev. 3.20 Luke 22.30 in his Spiritual Kingdom 9. No Christians can allow them i.e. the Quakers that Christ is come the second Time p. 74. Obs. Yes true Christians can allow it tho' these Baptists cannot wherein they contradict the true Believers Expectation and Experience of Salvation by Christ's coming Heb. 9.28 Tit. 2.13.14 10. That the Quakers say they are perfect viz. without Sin this is not true by the way but that to be so is both required of us in this Life and attainable in Christ Jesus but Christians expect compleat Perfection that is a living without Sin as 't is explain'd by E. P. Rail and Slan p. 38. when they come to glory on the other side of the Grave c. p. 51. Qu. When do these Men expect to be made clean in the Grave or at their expected Resurrection unto Glory If not until they are in their Graves they dye in their Sins and then whither Christ is gone they cannot come John 8.21 If not until such their expected Resurrection what shall become of their Sins inherent Pollutions and Defilement between their Death and Resurrection A few more of their Unsound and Antichristian Doctrines about Inspiration Christ within his Kingdom and Light within 1. That if the Quakers by their immediate Inspirations do not resolve what those many other things were that Jesus did that are not written Joh. 21.25 and what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground Joh. 8.6 8. then their boasting of immediate Inspiration is to be condemned to perpetual Silence and shame to cover their Faces Antichrist in Spirit p. 15 16. Contradiction Things that are Secret and not written not at all belonging to us but to the Lord as in E. P. Rail and Slan p. 20. Obs. There they have imposed such a Proof of immediate Inspiration upon us as doth not at all belong to them if things not written do not all belong to them 2. On Matth. 24.26 they say 'T is more than probable that Christ pointed at this Generation of Impostors the Quakers who say Behold he Christ is within thee c. p. 25. Obs. Antichristian Doctrine contrary to Christ and his Apostle's Doctrine Joh. 17.23 2 Cor. 13.5 Coll. 1.27 Rom. 10.6 7 8. 3. That those that are in the Possession of that Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of Christ neither Marry nor are given in Marriage c. but the Quakers do Marry ergo not in possession of that Kingdom p. 51 52. Obs. Marriage in the Lord hinders not his People from the Enjoyment of Christ's Kingdom therefore the first Proposition and Conclusion of this Argument is contrary to plain Scripture Coll. 1.13 Rev. 1.9 Matt. 16.28 Mar. 9.1 Luk. 9.27 4. That the Disciples did not expect this Christ to come into them Namely This Christ the Prophet whom ye shall hear in all things Deut. 18.15 Acts 3.22 He of whom God the Father from Heaven testified Matt. 17 5. This is my beloved Son hear ye him This Christ that was Crucified and Rose from the Dead Luke 24.39 This is he that told Mary Joh. 20.19 I go to my Father and your Father to my God and your God Hereupon these Baptists affirm as before the Disciples did not expâ—ct this Christ to come into them p. 52 53. Qu. What Christ then Is there two Christs See 1 Cor. 8.6 Is not this Antichristian Doctrine contrary to Christ's own express Testimony Joh. 14.20.17.23 And to these Baptists own Confession on 2 Cor. 13.5 c. 5.17 1 Cor. 6.19 Coll. 1.27 Ro. 8.9 Eph. 2.22 p. 22 23. 5. Turn to the Light within saith the Quaker This these Baptists have in contempt repeated seven times over in less than three Pages and all under the Title of Quakerism a great Delusion to prove that the Quakers disown the Doctrine taught by Christ and his Apostles and that they oppose the Teachings of Christ's Prophetical office p. 54 55 56. Obs. Here they have opposed and contemned the Doctrine of God's Prophets Christ and his Apostles who were all for and preached the Light within see Ps. 56.13 Isa. 2.5 Jo. 12.36 1 Jo. 1.7 and 2.10 Acts 26.18 and how can the Light of Christ within either oppose his Doctrine Ministry or Offices And 't is no other Light we exhort People to turn to The Lord open these Men's Eyes that they may come out of Darkness which they cannot do unless they turn to the Light within FINIS Charg 1. Answer Answ. Observ. * Where proves he these to be the Quakers words from which he himself varies p. 11. viz. That all things necessary may be taught without them and what less have Baptists heretofore confessed by approving Samuel How 's Sermon for The Sufficiency of the Spirit 's Teaching printed 1655. A Gross Lye Answ. Answ. Answ. Observ. * This is a gross Forgery Observ. Observ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. * Contrary to Christ's own Testimony Matt. 16.28 Mark 9.1 Luke 9.27