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A54153	Innocency with her open face presented by way of apology for the book entituled The sandy foundation shaken, to all serious and enquiring persons, particularly the inhabitants of the city of London / by W.P., j.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1669 (1669)	Wing P1304; ESTC R18823	9,223	40

of Scripture therefore he was not made nor is he upheld by any other power then his own and consequently is truly God In short this conclusive Argument for the proof of Christ the Saviours being God should certainly perswade all sober persons of my Innocency and my Adversaries Malice He that is the Everlasting Wisdom the Divine Power the true Light the onely Saviour the creating Word of all things whether visible or invisible and their Upholder by his own Power is without contradiction God but all these qualifications and divine properties are by the concurrant testimonies of Scripture ascribed to the Lord Jesus Christ therefore without a scruple I call and believe him really to be the Mighty God And for a more ample satisfaction let but the 28th page of my Reply to J. Clapham be perused in which Christ's Divinity and Eternity is very fully asserted Judge then impartial Readers to whom I appeal in this concern whether my Christian Reputation hath not been unworthily traduc'd and that those several Persons who have been posting out their Books against me whilst a close Prisoner have not been beating the Air and fighting with their own Shadows in supposing what I never thought much less writ of to be the intendment of my Book and then as furiously have fastned on their own conceits expecting I should feel the smart of every blow who thus far am no ways interressed in their heat As for my being a Socinian I must confess I have read of one Socinus of that they call a noble Family in Sene in Italy who about the year 1574 being a young man voluntarily did abandon the glories pleasures and honours of the great Duke of Tuskany's Court at Florence that noted place for all wordly delicacies and became a perpetual Exile for his Conscience whose parts wisdom gravity and just behaviour made him the most famous with the Polonian and Transilvanian Churches but I was never baptized into his name and therefore deny that reproachfull Epithite and if in any thing I acknowledge the verity of his Doctrine it is for the Truth 's sake of which in many things he had a clearer prospect then most of his Contempories but not therefore a Socinian any more then a Son of the English-Church whilst esteemed a Quaker because I justifie many of her Principles since the Reformation against the Roman Church II. As for the business of satisfaction I am prevented by a Person whose reputation is generally great amongst the Protestants of these Nations for since the Doctrine against which I mostly levelled my Arguments was the impossibility of Gods forgiving sin upon repentance without Christ's paying his Justice by suffering Infinite Vengeance and Eternal Death for Sins past present and to come he plainly in his late Discourse about Christs Sufferings against Crellius acknowledges me no less by granting upon a new state of the controversie both the possibility of Gods pardoning sins as debts without such a rigid satisfaction and the impossibility of Christs so suffering for the World reflecting closely upon those persons as giving so just an occasion to the Churches Adversaries to think they triumph over her Faith whilst it is only over their Mistakes who argue with more zeal then judgment Nay one of the main ends which first induced me to that Discourse I find thus deliver'd by him namely If they did believe Christ came into the World to reform it That the Wrath of God is now revealed from Heaven against all unrighteousness that his Love which is shown to the World is to deliver them from the hand of their Enemies that they might serve him in righteousness and holiness all the dayes of their lives they could never imagine that Salvation is entailed by the Gospel upon a mighty confidence or vehement perswasion of what Christ hath done and suffered for them thus doth he confess upon my Hipothesis or Proposition what I mainly contend for and however positively I may reject or deny my Adversaries unscriptural and imaginary Satisfaction let all know this that I pretend to know no other name by which Remission Attonement and Salvation can be obtained but Jesus Christ the Saviour who is the Power and Wisdom of God what apprehensions soever people may have entertained concerning me III. As for Justification by an imputed righteousness I still say that whosoever believes in Christ shall have Remission and Justification but then it must be such a Faith as can no more live without Works then a Body without a Spirit wherefore I conclude that true Faith comprehends Evangelical Obedience and here the same Dr Stillingflees comes into my relief though it s not wanting by a plain Assertion of the necessity of obedience viz. such who make no other condition of the Gospel but believing ought to have a great care to keep their hearts sounder then their heads thereby intimating the grand imperfection and danger of such a notion and therefore God Almighty bears me record my design was nothing less or more then to wrest those beloved and sin-pleasing Principles out of the hands heads and hearts of people that by the fond perswasion of being justified from the personal righteousness of another without relation to their own obedience they might not sin on upon trust till the Arrest of Eternal Vengeance should irrecoverably overtake them that all might be induced to an earnest persuit after holiness by a circumspect observance to Gods holy Spirit As without which none shall ever see the Lord. And to shut up my Apology for religious matters that all may see the simplicity Scripture Doctrine and phraise of my Faith in the most important matters of Eternal Life I shall here subjoyn a short Confession I sincerely own and unfeignedly believe by vertue of the sound knowledge and experience received from the gift of that holy Unction and divine Grace inspired from on high in one holy just mercifull almighty and eternal God who is the Father of all things that appeared to the holy Patriarchs and Prophets of old at sundry times and in divers manners And in ONE Lord Jesus Christ the everlasting Wisdom divine Power true Light only Saviour and preserver of all the same one holy just mercifull almighty and eternal God who in the fulness of time took and was manifested in the Flesh at which time he preached and his Disciples after him the Everlasting Gospel of Repentance and Promise of Remission of Sins and Eternal Life to all that heard and obeyed who said he that is with you in the Flesh shall be in you by the Spirit and though he left them as to the Flesh yet not comfortless for he would come to them again in the Spirit for a little while and they should not see him as to the Flesh again a little while and they should see him in the Spirit for the Lord Jesus Christ is that Spirit a Manifestation whereof is given to

INNOCENCY WITH Her open Face PRESENTED By way of Apology for the Book entituled The Sandy Foundation Shaken To all Serious and Enquiring Persons PARTICULARLY The Inhabitants of the City of LONDON By W. P. j. He that uttereth a Slander is a Fool and a False Ballance is an Abomination to the Lord Prov. 10. 18. and 11. 1. Printed in the Year 1669. RELIGION Although there can be nothing of greater concernment nor which doth more essencially import the immortal happiness of men yet such is the calamity of the Age that there is not any thing they are less solicitous about or serious in the prosecution of vainly imagining it to consist in the implicite subscription and verbal confession of mens invented Traditions and Precepts whilst they neglect that more Orthodox definition of the Apostle James viz. Pure Religion and undefiled before God is to visit the Fatherless and to keep himself unspotted from the World and instead thereof believe they are performing the best of Services in sacrificing the Reputation Liberty Estate if not Life it self of others to their own tenatious conceptions because perhaps though Persons of more vertue they cannot in all punctillioes correspond therewith how much I have been made an instance must needs be too notorious to any that hold the least intelligence with common fame that scarce ever took more pains to make the Proverb good by proving her self a Lyar then in my concern having been most egregiously slander'd revil'd and defam'd by Pulpit Press and Talk tearming me a Blasphemer Seducer Socinian denying the Divinity of Christ the Saviour and what not And all this about my late Answer to a Disputation with some Presbyterians but how unjustly it is the business of this short Apology to shew which had not been thus long retorted if an expectation first to have been brought upon my examination had not required a suspence and if I shall acquit my self from the injurious imputations of my Adversaries I hope the cry will have an end to which purpose let but my innocency have your hearing in her own defence who as she never can detract from her intentions in what she really hath done so will she as easily disprove her Enemies in manifesting their Accusations to be fictitious judge not before you read neither believe any further then you see I. That which I am credibly inform'd to be the greatest reason for my Imprisonment and that noise of Bl●sphemy which hath pierced so many Ears of late is my denying the Divinity of Christ and divesting him of his Eternal Godhead which most busily hath been suggested as well to those in Authority as maliciously insinuated amongst the People wherefore let me beseech you to be impartial and considerate in the perusal of my Vindication which being in the fear of the Almighty God and the simplicity of Scripture dialect presented to you I hope my Innocency will appear beyond a scruple The Proverbs which most agree intend Christ the Saviour speak in this manner By me Kings reign and Princes decree justice I Wisdom lead in the midst of the Paths of Judgment I was set up from Everlasting to which Paul's words allude unto them which are called we preach Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God from whence I conclude Christ the Saviour to be God for otherwise God would not be himself since if Christ be distinct from God and yet Gods Power and Wisdom God would be without his own Power and Wisdom but inasmuch as it is impossible Gods Power and Wisdom should be distinct or divided from himself it reasonably follows that Christ who is that Power and Wisdom is not distinct from God but intirely that very same God Next the Prophets David and Isaiah speak thus The Lord is my Light and my Salvation I will give thee for a Light unto the Gentiles and speaking to the Church for the Lord shall be thine Everlasting Light to which the Evangelist adds concerning Christ That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World God is Light and in him is no darkness at all from whence I assert the unity of God and Christ because though nominally distinguished yet essentially the same Divine Light for if Christ be that Light and that Light be God then is Christ God or if God be that Light and that Light be Christ then is God Christ Again And the City had no need of the Sun for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb Christ is the Light thereof by which the oneness of the nature of these Lights plainly appears for since God is not God without his own glory and that his glory lightens which it could never do if it were not Light and that the Lamb or Christ is that very same Light what can follow but that Christ the Light and God the Light are ONE pure and eternal Light Next from the word Saviour its manifest I even I am the Lord and besides me there is no Saviour And thou shalt know no God but me for there is no Saviour besides Me. And Mary said my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour And the Samaritans said unto the Woman Now we know that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the World according to his grace made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ Simon Peter to them that have obtained like precious Faith with us through the Righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ For therefore we suffer reproach because we trust in the Living God the Saviour of all men To the only wise God our Saviour be glory c. From which I conclude Christ to be God for if none can save or be stiled properly a Saviour but God and yet that Christ is said to save and properly called a Saviour it must needs follow that Christ the Saviour is God Lastly In the beginning was the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Word which the Greeks sometimes understood for Wisdom and divine Reason and the Word was with God and the Word was God all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made for by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth He is before all things and by him all things consist upholding all things by the Word of his Power c. wherefore I am still confirmed in the belief of Christ the Saviours Divinity for he that made all things and by whom they consist and are upheld because before all things he was not made nor upheld by another and consequently is God now that this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Word that was made Flesh or Christ the Light Power and wisdom of God and Saviour of men hath made all things and is him by whom they onely consist and are upheld because before them is most evident from the recited passages