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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

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

own Body upon the Tree and yet sin alive in the Heart and the Work of Regeneration not known yet it can't be so where the Light within is believed on so as to have its perfect Work in the Heart to regenerate and make all things New and to be of God this man can never make void what Christ hath done and suffered without And yet this New Birth or Christ formed within and dwelling the heart by Faith doth not limit or confine Christ to be only within and not without also but both within and without according to the good pleasure of the Father to reveal make him known for he filleth all things and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him and yet is he at God's Right Hand far above all Heavens in a Glorious Body 10. And we also believe the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust the one to Salvation and the other to Condemnation according to the Judgment of the Great Day and then shall every Seed have its own Body for if the Dead rise not we are of all men most miserable But because we dare not be so foolishly inquititive as to say With what Bodies do they arise therefore do some say We deny both the Resurrection of the Body of Christ and of all that are or shall be Dead But this also is false for every man shall be raised in his own Order but Christ the first Fruits 1 Cor. 15.23 And we believe they shall be raised with the same Bodies so far as Natural and Spiritual Corruptible and Incorruptible Terrestrial and Coelestial can be the same Pag. 40. of the same Book by E. Burrough And we believe Even He that was Dead is alive and lives for evermore and that he Cometh and shall Come again to Judge the whole World with Righteousness and all People with Equity and shall give to every man according to his Deeds at the Day of Judgment when all shall arise to Condemnation or Justification he that hath done good shall receive Life and he that hath done evil everlasting Condemnation Testimony for the Man Christ Jesus pag. 4. cites W. Penn where he speaks in the Name and Person of the Quakers thus We do believe the Man Christ Jesus to be glorified in Heaven We do believe that holy Manhood to be glorified in heavenly Glory See now how far the Quakers are from denying the true and real Manhood of Christ in Heaven or disowning Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah And we further add and confess That the Same Man Christ Jesus that suffered and was put to Death in the Flesh and raised from the dead by the mighty Power of God ascended into Heaven Gods dwelling place ascended both as to a change of Place and state of Glory He is highly exalted in Power and Authority Pag. 7. We have always believed owned the Man Christ Jesus according to the plain History of him in Holy Scripture as namely That he was miraculously conceived by the holy Ghost overshadowing the Virgin Mary that he lived an innocent sinless Life preacht powerfully wrought Miracles was crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh buried and rose again the 3d day and was seen of his Disciples and many Brethren after he arose and that the Same Body that was put to Death was raised by the Power of God was a real Body really seen both before and after his Resurrection and at his ascention also So we confess the same Man Christ not only to be still in being but also glorified and his Body to be a glorious heavenly and spiritual Body And as to his being Man We have one Mediator between God and Man even the Man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. And God will judge the World in Righteousness by that MAN whom he hath ordained whom he hath raised from the Dead Acts 17.31 So th●t this MAN Christ did neither Vanish nor Perish in any thing Essential to him ☞ either as to his SPIRIT SOUL or BODY but is highly exalted and glorified P. 12. But if we shall be changed as to our low Body and fashioned into a glorious and spiritual state then is Christ as to his Body changed or translated into a far more glorious State than what it had when on Earth P. 13. as for those Objections against the Man Christ his being in Heaven they are of W. Harworth's own framing and not the Quakers for where did they ever thus argue viz. Ephes 4.10 The Apostle saith he ascended far above all Heavens ergo Christ is not in Heaven as to his MANHOOD Let him shew us that Book or Dispute wherein we have this Argument if he can Again 1 Cor. 15. Flesh Blood cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Where do the Quakers argue from hence that therefore Christ is not there as to his Manhood Let him produce Book page for this or forever be ashamed His Reasons to prove Christ now a Man in Heaven do not reach nor touch us the thing not being deny'd but really believed and Confessed unto by us Malice of the Indep Agent again rebuked p. 17. The terms Natural and Earthly as given to the glorious Body of Christ were and are offensive to us It must needs be a very glorious heavenly Body and we believing such a change in the glorious Body of Christ we do not thereby nor ever did believe that the Body of Christ which suffered was annihilated that his Flesh saw Corruption No such matter May there not be then a very wonderful change in the Body and yet the Substance not annihilated nor destroy'd nor does it follow from our not believing nor owning his Characters of natural earthly on Christs glorious Body that therefore nothing of that Body remains or is in being P. 19. As if we allowed nothing of the Man Christ either of Spirit or Body to have a being after his Resurrection to ascend which is a horrid falshood for though it was changed and became excellent refined and glorious yet it follows not that it was annihilated Though Christ be God and Man in a most glorious Union and Power yet the Manhood is not the Deity nor the Deity the Manhood yet inseperable in the heavenly Man Christ who is Lord from Heaven Pag. 23. Postscript by George Whitehead in answer to W. H'● Q●eries Q. I do but Query what is become of that Flesh wherein He i. e. Christ was manifested Is that Flesh now in being if so where is it in every place or circumscribed in Heaven Answ That Flesh saw no Corruption but was raised from the dead Christ did rise in that Body wherein he suffered and in the same ascended into the Heavens where the Patriarch David did not as to his Body which is in the Sepulchre Acts 2.29 And that very Body of Christ which was raised from the dead how should it but be in being seeing he dyed not again according to Rom. 6.9 knowing Christ being raised from the