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A35136	Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7217; ESTC R204876	16,180	24

from the deep and true sence for then God out of the depths of his Love and Mercy could not but heal them and therefore lest the true Light should shine into them to give them the sensible knowledge of themselves and God should heal them the Devil as god of the world by the things of the world endeavours to blind the mind not the brain-knowledge but the hearty feeling sence within in the mind lest the Light within should so shine as God should heal them and all the busslings of Satan with his gifts are but to blind the mind within lest God should heal the soul that complains to him from the true sight and sence of his misery as in himself By this Grace and Gift within we believe that to us though in the world there be Lords many and Gods many there is but ONE GOD the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ witnessed within man only by the Spirit of Truth that manifests both the Father and the Son and yet these three are one and agree in one and he that honours the Father honours the Son that proceeds from him and he that denies the Spirit denies both the Father and the Son and is Anti-Christ but he that believes in the Spirit and is led by it is the Son of God Rom. 8. 14. As many as are the Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God We believe the Scriptures bear witness unto and testifie of Christ but they say the Witness of God is greater than them the Spirit it self bearing witness with our spirits that we are the Sons of God for it is not the Scriptures without the Spirit nor the Spirit contrary to the Scriptures but the Spirit 's discovering the Will of God in the heart or opening of the Scriptures in its own time and way and not in or by the will of man but as it self pleaseth who searcheth all things even the deep things of God and manifests them unto the soul which giveth the perfect sound and saving knowledge for said Christ the Spirit shall take of mine and shew them unto you And as holy men gave forth the Scriptures 2 Pet. 1. 21. so holy men and they only come truly to understand them and not proud or ungodly men because their hearts and lives do not answer the hearts and lives of those that gave them forth as face answereth face in a glass And this we believe to be the reason why so long preaching by men of corrupt minds who have and do handle the words deceitfully for selfish ends and filthy lucre sake hath brought forth so little fruit and been to so little purpose except to their purses and bellies for bad they believed and therefore spoken and stood in God's counsel they should have profited their hearers Jer. 23. 21 22 23. to the end Through this Gift we believe that Christ Jesus the Son of God was manifest in the flesh in the fulness 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 do we believe he is come and do see his day as also by the Prophets and Apostles Writings which twofold cord is not easily broken We believe also according to the Scriptures of truth that this same Jesus hath God highly exalted and given him a Name above every Name that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have Everlasting Life and that there is not another Name whereby man can be saved than this Name of Jesus Christ nor is Remission of Sins to be Preached by any other Name But as we do not believe that the outward letters syllables are that Name that are to be bowed to by the outward knee no more than the letters or syllables in the words God or Spirit seeing the 〈…〉 God who is a Spirit 〈…〉 45. 23. but that Name which saves is the Power and Arm of God that brings Salvation from Sin and makes every soul that names it to depart from Iniquity This is that Name which was preached and which is preached through Faith in which Name remission of sin is obtained Therefore was the outward word Jesus given him as his outward name Thou shalt call his name JESUS for he shall save his People from their Sins Mark for he shall save c. So that which saves is the Name which is to be believed in which is that Arm of God that brings Salvation when no eye pitties neither is there any to help the Power of God that then saves is that Grace that comes from the fulness of Christ the Saviour And without this vertue Christ and Jesus are but empty names 1 Cor. 12. 3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost We believe also that this Jesus died for or because of Sin and rose again for the Justification of those that believe in him as well as to manifest to all the world that he was the Son of God and that he thereby spoiled Principalities and Powers and triumphed over them openly and led captivity captive in his own person yet we believe and know by his Grace in our hearts that as his name Jesus without vertue and Power is but an empty word so his Dying without man's Conformity to his Death or being planted into the likeness thereof or being crucified with Christ as saith the Scripture Rom. 6. 2 3 4 5 6. Gal. 2. 20. will not profit man as unto the salvation of his soul no more than the naming of his outward name Jesus doth at this day make people to depart from iniquity For we believe and are sure that man must dye inwardly as well as Christ died outwardly and must be put to death in his flesh as Christ was in his for he that is in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8. 8. neither cease from sin but he that is dead is freed from sin Rom. 6. 7. And yet mans dying unto sin and the root and principle of it in himself is so far from making void Christ's Death in his own person that it establisheth it to all those ends and purposes for which it was intended of the Father As the cures which the Physician doth manifest and establish his skill and ability so doth mans dying unto sin and self and living unto God manifest and establish the virtue and power of Christ's Death for as man manifests his being risen with Christ by his seeking the things that are above Col. 3. 1 2. so doth he manifest his knowledge of the Death of Christ by his being crucified with Christ and bearing about in his body the dyings of the Lord Jesus for as it is not an outward belief gathered from the letter that will change the heart and life though the judgment and opinion it may so is it not a belief from the history or letter only that can give man a saving knowledge of the Death of Christ but he must have the

its doing to commend it but God's love and bounty in Christ the Light to receive it and yet Holiness is its delight and he can no more live out of it than the fish upon the dry land We believe that this Faith keeps the mind pure and the heart clean through the sprinkling of the heart from an evil conscience by the Blood of Jesus which remits the Sin and justifies the Soul through the vertue of this Blood received into the heart by this living Faith which receives all its power and vertue from Christ in whom it abides as its root and object whereby Justification is witnessed from Sin not in Sin Rom. 6. 22. But now being made free from Sin and become servants unto God you have your fruits unto Holiness and the end Everlasting Life We believe that Justification and Sanctification are distinguished but not divided for as he that sanctifieth and justifieth is one so do these go together and when the Soul hath the greatest sence of Justification upon it through the vertue of the Blood of Jesus by the living Faith then is it most in love with Holiness and at the greatest distance from Sin and Evil and whenever there is a failing in Sanctification there is also some eclipse of Justification in the eye of the Soul until Faith hath recovered its strength again which it lost by Sin 's prevailing For as the furthest and clearest sight is in the brightest day so is it with the Soul when it is most in the brightness and beauty of Holiness its Justification appears most glorious and its Union and Communion most sweet and lasting and so like two twins as they are much of an age so they are like one to the other and what God hath joyned together let no man put assunder We also by this Light believe that acceptance with the Father is only in Christ and by his Righteousness made ours or imputed unto us not by the creaturely skil but by the applicatory act of God's gift of Grace whereby the soul feels the difference between self-applying by its own Faith and God applying by his Spirit and so making Christ unto the Soul Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption So that we believe and are sure that there is a great difference between Imputation as it is the act of man's spirit and as it is the act of free Grace without man's forcing And so we distinguish between Imagination and Imputation between reckoning or imputing that is real and reckoning or imputation that is not real but a fiction and imagination in the creaturely will and power And because we are against the latter we are clamoured upon as if we denied the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness when it is only unto those that are not made righteous by it to walk as he also walked For as the Scripture saith Is it not he that saith he is righteous by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness but he that doth Righteousness is righteous as Christ is righteous 1 Joh. 3. 7. he that believes otherwise is deceived And yet it is not Acts of Righteousness as done by us nor as inherent in us as acts by which we are accepted of God and justified before him but by Christ the Author and Worker of those acts in us and for us whereby we know that we are in him and he in us and we hold him as our Head into whom all things are gathered together in one even in him We further believe that God is only to be worshipped and not any likeness that man makes unto himself of God from any view sight or knowledge that he hath had of him but in every act and service man is to know what substantially as well as whom speculatively or notionally he worshippeth as it is written Joh. 4. 22. Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship for Salvation is of the Jews And he that thus worships the Father honours the Son by the same Spirit which is one with the Father and the Son in which Spirit only God is worshipped according to the form of its own choosing and manifesting of it self in and by according unto the good pleasure of the Father who is a Spirit and limits man unto the Spirit 's form but allows not man to limit the Spirit unto his form though it be not of his inventing originally but of the Father yet man must no more limit God unto it than he could command God to appear in it at first For as he chose it himself so he hath reserved liberty to leave it at his pleasure who works all things after the counsel of his own Will which he hath purposed in himself that the gift of the knowledge of the Mystery of his Will might for ever be acknowledged to be of his Grace and from the Riches of the Glory thereof according to Ephes 1. and man be bound but God free man bound to wait in the Light for God's Movings but God free to move in whom to what and when he pleaseth then man is to go when he saith go and come when he saith come and such Servants do serve him and then there is no more curse as in the dayes of will-worship and voluntary humility but the Throne of God and of the Lamb Col. 2. 18 23. Rev. 22. 3 4. and they shall see his Face and his Name shall be on their foreheads We believe also that this Worship is spiritual and not carnal in all its Parts and Ordinances and not to be imposed by any outward force but performed by the inward leadings of God's Spirit according as the holy men of God were led and guided in the dayes past who gave forth the Scriptures all impositions of Worship outward being only enjoyned under the first Covenant that made nothing perfect until the time of Reformation spoken of Heb. 9. 10. But Christ being come there is an end as well of such Impositions as of the Meats and Drinks and divers Baptisms and carnal Ordinances they being all but temporary and in order unto an end but all to vail to Christ the sum and substance of all the first pointed at by all and the last ending of all the Amen And he that thus worships God in Christ his Ordinances are spiritual and not carnal and his Faith carries him beyond his Works with righteous Abel and preserves him that he is not drowned in the form like Cain neither falls he short of the Glory of God nor of his assurance of Acceptance with him We believe there is one Baptism necessary unto Salvation Ephes 4. 5. One Lord one Faith one Baptism And this Baptism is Spiritual of which John's Water was but a figure Joh. 1. 31. That he should be made manifest to Israel therefore am I come baptizing with Water saith John and 1 Pet. 3. 21. The like figure whereunto even Baptism doth also now save us 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 This one spiritual Baptism into the Name of Jesus Christ is that which saves the Water being but a figure that Christ might be manifest to Israel who had divers Baptisms imposed on them until the time of Reformation but Christ the Substance being come the Shadows fly away And yet where ever any are commanded now by the same Spirit that commanded the Believers to be Baptized in the days past either for the furtherance of the Gospel or tryal of their Faith we judge them not But this obedience is very rare to be found and we could heartily desire that all would consider seriously whether Litteral sayings observed onely by outward reading hearing by the ear or inward impulses upon the heart by the Divine power are the motives unto obediences in this kind And if honesty and uprightness of heart may be heard we believe and know the many dead souls every where notwithstanding their Baptisms will be as so many witnesses against them by their groveling upon the earth as so many slain and killed men by the Letter while the Spirit 's quickenings have not been known in the true Baptism into death For we find by daily experiences that most men and women live like Pharaoh's lean kine onely to eat up the fat and to envy those that are not so lean-soul'd as themselves We believe also that as there is one true saving Baptism so is there one Bread or Body of Christ which all the Saints do feed upon and though they be many as to persons yet their Bread is but one and they all in it but one Bread And this we believe is the flesh that came down from heaven Joh. 6. 33. Though the outward Jews now as then murmur at him because he said I am the Bread which came down from heaven vers 41 42. But Christ vers 45. to stop their murmuring tells them that the knowledge of this mystery was only revealed unto them whom God and not man teacheth and no more than are taught of God can set seal and subscribe unto this truth in Jesus though we believe also that Jesus did take outward Bread and brake it and gave it to the Disciples as the Scripture saith and this was a figure of his Body that was to be pierced and broken upon the Tree and a shew to shew forth his death until he came And we believe he did arise again and appear unto his Disciples And all that believed were together and had all things common c. And they continuing daily with one accord in the Temple breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart praising God and having favour with all the People Act. 2. 44 45 46. 47. And we believe that the Apostle in 1 Cor. 11. 20. saith true where he saith When ye come together therefore in one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper And all that he speaks in that Chapter is not to perpetuate that outward breaking of Bread otherwise than as the Believers did that were filled with the Holy Ghost in singleness of Heart as before is said and yet we judge not those who break outward Bread and drink outward Wine being commanded so to do and put in remembrance thereby of the body and blood of Jesus Christ by the remembrancer the spirit of truth which is appointed by the Father to lead into all truth But to do it by imitation or tradition only as most do it if not all at this day we know it is not an offering unto God in righteousness neither do we believe this to be the communion of the body and blood of Christ and yet the eating of the flesh and drinking of the blood of Christ we believe man must know and witnesse or he hath no life in him Joh. 6. 53 54 55. And we believe that many are striving now in their Spirits as the Jews did vers 52. saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat And not onely the Jews but many of his disciples said This is an hard saying who can bear it vers 60. and at vers 63. he tells them It is the Spirit that quickens the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are Life and he that hears and understands these words that are Spirit and Life will not be offended at what I have spoken of the flesh and blood of Christ By the same Spirit and Grace we believe that Prayer is an Ordinance of God when performed by his Spirit in its words and not those which man's wisdom teacheth or without words by sighs and groans which cannot be uttered and these so often as the spirit it self pleaseth But the Form without the Spirit whether it be by words of other mens framing or words of a man 's own spirit according to his will time and manner this is not the Prayer that prevails with God And we believe there is none so weak and infirm but this Spirit profers its help at some time or other though man regardeth it not And the more man's mind is gathered within from all visibles the more he comes to be sensible of the movings and stirrings of this Spirit in its secret cryes to God answerable to the wants of that man or woman in whom it moves and cryes And by due watching thereunto we believe and know the Spirit of prayer and of adoption that cries unto God comes to be discerned and distinguished from a man 's own spirit and will We believe by the same gift of Grace that there are several Ministrations and several Operations according to 1 Cor. 12. and all by the same Spirit as before the Law and after the Law by Moses and after by John the Baptist and Christ and his Apostles and in all these the Ministration had acceptance with God through the management of the Spirit and its rejection and dislike of God for the want thereof And by this Spirit were the Scriptures given forth and did the holy men of God Speak Prophecy Preach and Pray as they were moved and for want of it the Letter did and doth kill And for the further appearance and pouring out of this Spirit answerable unto the work and service that God had for them to do they were to wait as Christ commanded his Disciples to do at Jerusalem to receive the Promise of the Father For by this Spirit he that speaks speaks as the Oracle of God And therefore as it was the practice of the People of God in old time to wait for the moving and stirring of this Spirit that they might speak as it gave them utterance in the evidence and demonstration thereof so do this People called Quakers now and according to its moving in their hearts they minister according to the signification of the Spirit whereby they understand both what and when to speak and when to be silent as also

Reason because Faith is of an higher Principle and of a deeper nature and ground than Man's Reason is But this because it appears not in Man's sphear but rather out of it and is contrary to the line and reach of his wisdom is accounted by him foolishness and madness Thus is the Wisdom of God and the Children thereof judged and condemned by Man in his day And how can it be otherwise How can the wisdom of Man but judge that as foolishness whose beauty and excellency is hid from its eye But this is because the wisdom of Man is out of its place not subjected to the Wisdom of God but exalted above it therefore as a curse unto it is it suffered to lift up it self in its conceitedness against and so to persecute the pure Wisdom of God and the births thereof that it might fall and be broken and snared and taken and its day deservedly come to an end and be shut up in the shadows and chambers of eternal darkness But what ear of Man can hear this Surely none that is whole in the line of Man's wisdom reason and understanding but that alone which is bruised broken and in some measure dashed to pieces by the inroads of a diviner Life and Nature This in the leadings of that Life which hath broken it and in the shinings of the Light Eternal upon it and into it may be enabled to take up the Cross to the natural part and to die that Death with Christ which preserves from the second Death with the misery thereof Happy is he who knows and hearkens to the Perswasions of God's Spirit who is born of God and taught to wait upon him and worship him in Spirit who receives his Religion from the Light of Faith into the renewed Nature and Mind and not from the Reason of Man into the natural understanding which is easily corrupted and cannot be kept pure but alone by the indwelling of the Principle of Eternal Life in it For though such may suffer very deeply in this world from the men of this world as the Subjects and Servants to the Principle of Life have done in all Ages and Generations yet their Principle will bear them out in which God will appear to strengthen and refresh their spirits and carry them up above all their Sufferings in the Patience Meekness and Faith of the Lamb. And keeping to their Principle they cannot be overcome but must either live or die Conquerors according to the Will and good Pleasure of Him who ordereth and disposeth of all things well and bringeth good out of every evil in despight of all the powers of darkness And he that overcometh whether by life or death in the Lamb's Spirit shall wear the Lamb's Crown and sit down in that perfect Rest in the Kingdom of the Father which will give the hearts of all his Children full Satisfaction In which assured hope Life stirring in our bosoms and quickning our hearts with Love unto our God and Zeal for his Truth we can freely give up all that is near and dear unto us in this world and lay down our heads in inward Peace in the midst of the greatest outward Persecution and Trouble Even so O Lord thy Will be done concerning this Generation of thy People whom thou hast begotten to thy self and brought forth by thy mighty Power to testifie to thy Truth in this present day Dispose of them as it pleaseth Thee and let not their Faith in Thee nor thy Faithfulness to Them fail but let them be a Praise to thy Name throughout all Generations and tendred by Thee as the First-fruits of thine Appearance in the glorious Light of the everlasting Day after this great long thick and dark night of Apostacy from the Life and Spirit of the Apostles which hath so long eclipsed and covered the brightness of thy Beauty from the sight of the Earth Isaac Penington