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A54243	Truth further clear'd from mistakes being two chapters out of the book entituled, Primitive Christianity reviv'd : plainly acknowledging the benefit accruing by the death and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of mankind, together with a comparison of the principles of the people called Quakers, and the perversions of their opposers, by way of postscript / by W.P.; Primitive Christianity reviv'd. Selections	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1698 (1698)	Wing P1391; ESTC R33341	12,151	50

it be of their Profession § 3. Yet we are very ready to declare to the whole World that we cannot think Men and Women can be saved by their Belief of the one without the Sense and Experience of the other and that is what we oppose and not his Blessed Manifestation in the Flesh We say that he then overcame our Common Enemy soiled him in the open Field and in our Nature triumphed over him that had overcome and triumphed over it in our Forefather Adam and his Posterity and that as truly as Christ overcame him in our Nature in his own Person so by his Divine Grace being received and obeyed by us he overcomes him in us That is he detects the Enemy by his Light in the Conscience and enables the Creature to resist him and all his Fiery Darts and finally so to Fight the Good Fight of Faith as to overcome him and lay hold on Eternal Life § 4. And this is the Dispensation of Grace which we declare has appeared to all more or less teaching those that will receive it to deny ungodliness and wordly lust and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World looking for which none else can justly do the blessed Hope and glorious Appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ c. Tit. 2. 11 12 13. And as from the Teachings and Experience and Motion of this Grace we minister to others so the very drift of our Ministry is to turn Peoples Minds to this Grace in themselves that they may all up and be doing even the good and acceptable Will of God and work out their Salvation with fear and trembling and make their High and Heavenly Calling and Election sure which none else can do whatever be their Profession Church and Character For such as Men sow they must reap and his Servants we are whom we obey Regeneration we must know or we cannot be Children of God and Heirs of Eternal Glory And to be Born again an other Spirit and Principle must prevail leaven season and govern us than either the Spirit of the World or our own depraved Spirits and this can be no other Spirit than that which dwelt in Christ for unless that dwell in us we can be none of his Rom. 8. 9. And this Spirit begins in Conviction and ends in Conversion and Perseverance And the one follows the other Conversion being the Consequence of Convictions obey'd and Perseverance a natural Fruit of Conversion and being Born of God for such Sin not because the Seed of God abides in them John 3. 7 8. but through Faithfulness continue to the end and obtain the Promise even Everlasting Life § 5. But let my Reader take this along with him that we do acknowledge that Christ through his Holy Doing and Suffering for being a Son he learned Obedience has obtained Mercy of God his Father for Mankind and that his Obedience has an Influence to our Salvation in all the Parts and Branches of it since thereby he became a Conqueror and led Captivity Captive and obtained Gifts for Men with divers Great and Precious Promises that thereby we might be partakers of the Divine Nature having first escaped the Corruption that is in the World through Lust I say we do Believe and Confess that the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ Jesus affects our Salvation throughout as well from the Power and Pollution of Sir as from the Guilt He being a Conqueror as well as a Sacrifice and both through Suffering Yet they that reject his Divine Gift so obtained and which he has given to them by which to see their Sin and the sinfulness of it and to repent and turn away from it and do so no more and to wait upon God for daily strength to resist the Fiery Darts of the Enemy and to be Comforted through the Obedience of Faith in and to this Divine Grace of the Son of God such do not please God believe truly in God nor are they in a state of true Christianity and Salvation Woman said Christ to the Samaritan at the Well hadst thou known the Gift of God and who it is that speaketh to thee c. People know not Christ and God whom to know is Life Eternal John 17. because they are Ignorant of the Gift of God viz. a measure of the Spirit of God that is given to every one to profit with 1 Cor. 12. 7. which reveals Christ and God to the Soul Flesh and Blood cannot do it Oxford and Cambridge cannot do it Tongues and Philosophy cannot do it for they that by Wisdom knew not God had these things for their Wisdom They were strong deep and accurate in them but alas they were clouded puft up and set farther off from the Inward and Saving Knowledge of God because they sought for it in them and thought to find God there But the Key of David is an other thing which shuts and no Man opens and opens and no Man shuts and this Key have all they that receive the Gift of God into their Hearts and it opens to them the Knowledge of God and themselves and gives them a quite other Sight Taste and Judgment of things than their Educational or Traditional Knowledge afforded them This is the beginning of the New Creation of God and thus it is we come to be New Creatures And we are bound to declare there is no other way besides this by which People can come into Christ or to be true Christians or receive the Advantage that comes by the Death and Sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ Wherefore we say and upon good Authority even that of our own Experience as well as that of the Scriptures of Truth Christ will prove no Saving Sacrifice for them that refuse him for their Example They that reject the Gift do deny the Giver instead of themselves daily for the Givers sake O that People were wise that they would consider their latter End and the things that make for the Peace thereof Why should they perish in a vain hope of Life while Death Reigns Of living with God who live not to him nor walk with him Awake thou that sleepest in thy Sin or at best in thy Self-righteousness Awake I say and Christ shall give thee Life For he is the Lord from Heaven the quickening Spirit that quickens us by his Spirit if we do not resist it and quench it by our Disobedience but receive love and obey it in all the Holy Leadings and Teachings of it Rom. 8. 14 15. To which Holy Spirit I commend my Reader that he may the better see where he is and also come to the true Belief and Advantage of the Doings and Sufferings of our Dear and Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who saves from the Power and Pollution as well as Guilt of Sin all those that hear his knocks and open the Door of their Hearts to him that he may come in and work a real and through Reformation

of Sin cannot be obtained 1 John 3. 19 20 21. Rom. 8. 13 14. Joh. 3. 19 20. Rom. 8. 2 16. Gal. 6. 8. 2. Thess 2. 13. XI Because we make Evangelical Obedience a Condition to Salvation and works by the Spirit an Evidence of Faith and a holy Life both Necessary and Rewardable Tit. 3. from vers 3. to 9. Tit. 2. 14. Jam. 2. 22. XII When we say that in some respects Christ was not our Sacrifice but Example and that his Obedience to his Father doth not Excuse ours but as he abode in his Father's Love by Keeping his Commandments we must follow his Blessed Example John 15. 9 10. XIII From our pleading for a Purification and Perfection from Sin agreeable to the Testimony of the holy Scriptures on this side the Grave through the pure Workings of the Holy and Perfect Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ Mat. 5. 48. Mat. 19. 21. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Col. 1. 28. Tit. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 22 23. XIV Because we say with the Apostle That Men ought to Pray Preach and Sing with the Spirit and that no Man can Rightly worship GOD without the Preparation by and Assistance of his holy Spirit and that we ought to wait to feel It for that end and that other Worship is Formal and Carnal Rom. 8. 26. 1 Cor. 14. 15. Prov. 16. 1. Luk. 24. 49. Acts 1. 4. Acts 2. 1. Psal 39 2 3. XV. From our denying the Resurrection of the same Natural and Corruptable Body and declining to be Inquisitive and Critical about what Body we shall rise with according to the Caution of the Apostle therein leaving it to the Lord to give us a Body as pleaseth him 1 Cor. chap. 15. 2 Cor. 5. 1 2. Their Adversaries Perversions OUr Adversaries are pleased to make us to deny and undervalue the Scriptures as Not to he a Rule in any Respect tho' our Books plentifully shew we confess them to be the Next and Secondary Rule to the holy SPIRIT and that we ever chuse to express our Belief of Christian Faith and Doctrine in the Terms thereof They also say We prefer our own Books before them while we Love Honour and use Them above all the Books in the World and refuse to express matters of Faith in other Terms than what are Expresly in Scripture or so agreeable as to leave no just ground for any doubt of our Respect and Regard to them Such as desire to lessen the Credit of our Perswasion with sober People Represent us to deny the Trinity at large and in every sense tho' we only reject School-Terms and Philosophical Definitions as Unscriptural if not Unsound and as having a Tendency to Fruitless Controversie instead of Edification and Holiness among Christians We have been Uncharitably Represented by some as if we denied All outward Means or Contradicted our selves in the Use of them which they may as well charge against the Apostle John in Asserting the Sufficiency of the Anointing People have been told by our Adversaries That we believe every Man has Whole GOD and Whole CHRIST in him and consequently so many Gods and so many Christs Tho' we Assert no more but the very Language of the holy Ghost in the Scriptures of Truth and mean no more by it than that Christ by his Light and Spirit dwelleth in the hearts of his People It has been inferred that we hold that Christ is in and to Wicked Men as he is in and to his Saints tho' he is a Condemner to the One and a Comforter to the other Our Opposers will have it That all who have this Light must consequently be Good Men whether they Obey it or no or else the Light is Insufficient Some are not ashamed to tell the World in our Name That Christ was never visible as to his Bodily Appearance and consequently that we deny his Coming in the Flesh above sixteen hundred years ago tho' his coming then is an Article of our Christian Belief We are represented to Deny or Undervalue the Coming of Christ without us and the Force and Efficacy of his Death and Sufferings as a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World tho' we only Deny the Benefit thereof to such who by Living in Sin instead of Dying to Sin and Pleasing instead of Denying themselves to please GOD Deprive Themselves thereof Some unworthily conclude we disown Christ as a Satisfactory Sacrifice in his Death and Sufferings and as if we did not believe he died for the Sins of the Whole World or that he Carried away Sin and Sealed Redemption in his Blood to as many as Rightly Believe and that we expect both to be Forgiven and Accepted of GOD not for his sake but our own Works Which Suggestions we utterly detest and disown It is inferred against us That we deny Justification at all in any sense by the Death and Sufferings of the Propitiatory Sacrifice of Christ for the Sins of the whole World Than which nothing can be more Uncharitable Untrue or Unjust Since we Never did nor can believe the Remission of Sins in any other Name than that of our Lord Jesus Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself up once for all an Holy and Acceptable Sacrifice to GOD. Our Opposers would make People believe we hope to be sav'd by our own Works and not by Grace which is the Gift of GOD and so make them the Meritorious Cause of our Salvation and consequently Papists They will have us to mean and venture to say for us that we believe our Lord Jesus Christ to be in all things but an Example and in no rerespect our Sacrifice We are made so presumptious as to assert the FULNESS of all Perfection and Happiness attainable in this Life Ignorance or Envy suggests against us That if GOD will not compel us by his Spirit he must go without his Worship We are made to Deny the Resurrection of any Body however Spiritual or Glorified and even of Eternal Rewards too Which if True we are of all People the most miserable THus Sober Reader thou hast some Taste of the Usage we have received in a more abundant manner at their hands who have Undertaken to give an Account of our Belief to the World that it has been very hard for People to see us through those Disguises that Interest Ignorance or Malice hath put upon us But 't is our desire for thy own Good as well as our Defence that GOD would please by the Light of his dear Son to give thee a Clear and Effectual Sight of the Dispensation of his Heavenly Truth in the Inward Parts which he hath blessed us withal Viz. the Revelation and Setting up of the Kingdom of CHRIST in the Hearts and Souls of the Sons of Men where Sin and Self have so much and so long Prevailed that thou mayest come to be a Witness of us Goodness and thy Soul with ours Admire Adore and for ever Praise his most Glorious and Everlasting NAME through his dear and Well-Beloved SON and our REDEEMER for He is Worthy Worthy Worthy World without End Dublin the 26th of the 3d Month 1698. WILLIAM PENN THE END

times that are sanctified who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. 1. Mark that § 4. In short Justification consists of two parts or hath a two-fold Consideration viz. Justification from the Guilt of Sin and Justification from the Power and Pollution of Sin and in this Sence Justification gives Man a full and clear Acceptance before God For want of this latter part it is that so many Souls Religiously inclin'd are often under Doubts Scruples and Despondencies notwithstanding all that their Teachers tell them of the Extent and Efficacy of the first part of Justification And it is too general an Unhappiness among the Professors of Christianity that they are apt to cloak their own Active and Passive Disobedience with the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ The first part of Justification we do reverently and humbly acknowledge is only for the sake of the Death and Sufferings of Christ nothing we can do though by the Operation of the Holy Spirit being able to Cancel Old Debts or wipe out Old Scores It is the Power and Efficacy of that Propitiatory Offering upon Faith and Repentance that justifies us from the Sins that are past and it is the Power of Christ's Spirit in our Hearts that purifies and makes us acceptable before God For till the Heart of Man is purged from Sin God will never accept of it He Reproves Rebukes and Condemns those that entertain Sin there and therefore such cannot be said to be in a Justified State Condemnation and Justification being Contraries So that they that hold themselves in a Justified State by the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ while they are not Actively and Passively Obedient to the Spirit of Christ Jusus are under a strong and dangerous Delusion and for crying out against this Sin-pleasing Imagination not to say Doctrine we are Staged and Reproached as Denicrs and Despisers of the Death and Sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ But be it known to such they add to Christ's Sufferings and Crucifie to themselves afresh the Son of God and trample the Blood of the Covenant under their Feet that walk unholily under a Profession of Justification for God will not acquit the Guilty nor Justifie the Disobedient and Unfaithful Such deceive themselves and at the Great and Final Judgment their Sentence will not be Come ye Blessed because it cannot be said to them Well done Good and Faithful for they cannot be so esteemed that live and die in a Reproveable and Condemnable State but Go ye Cursed c. § 5. Wherefore O my Reader Rest not thy self wholly satisfied with what Christ has done for thee in his Blessed Person without Thee but press to know his Power and Kingdom within thee that the strong Man that has too long kept thy House may be bound and his Goods spoiled his Works destroyed and Sin ended according to the 1 John 3. 7. For which end says that Beloved Disciple Christ was manifested that all things may become New New Heavens and New Earth in which Righteousness dwells Thus thou wilt come to glorifie God in thy Body and in thy Spirit which are his and live to him and not to thy self Thy Love Joy Worship and Obedience thy Life Conversation and Practice thy Study Meditation and Devotion will be Spiritual For the Father and the Son will make their abode with thee and Christ will manifest himself to thee for the Secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him And an holy Unction or Anointing have all those which leads them into all truth and they need not the Teachings of Men They are better Taught being Instructed by the Divine Oracle no bare Hear-say or Traditional Christians but fresh and living Witnesses Those that have seen with their own Eyes and heard with their own Ears and have handled with their own Hands the Word of Life in the divers Operations of it to their Souls Salvation In this they Meet in this they Preach and in this they Pray and Praise Behold the New Covenant fulfilled the Church and Worship of Christ the Great Anointed of God and the Great Anointing of God in his Holy High Priesthood and Offices in his Church CHAP. IX Sect. 1. A Confession to Christ and his Work both in Doing and Suffering Sect. 2. That ought not to make void our Belief and Testimony of his Inward and Spiritual Appearance in the Soul Sect. 3. What our Testimony is in the latter respect That 't is impossible to be saved by Christ Without us while we reject his Work and Power Within us Sect. 4. The Dispensation of Grace in its Nature and Extent Sect. 5. A further Acknowledgment to the Death and Sufferings of Christ Sect. 6. The Conclusion shewing our Adversaries Unreasonableness § 1. AND lest any should say we are Equivocal in our Expressions and Allegorize away Christ's Appearance in the Flesh meaning only thereby our own Flesh and that as often as we mention him we mean only a Mystery or a Mystical Sense of him be it as to his Coming Birth Miracles Sufferings Death Resurection Ascension Mediation and Judgment I would yet add to preserve the well-disposed from being stagger'd by such Suggestions and to inform and reclaim such as are under the Power and Prejudice of them That we do we Bless God Religiously Believe and Confess to the Glory of God the Father and the Honour of his Dear and Beloved Son that Jesus Christ took our Nature upon him and was like unto us in all things Sin excepted That he was Born of the Virgin Mary and Suffered under Pontius Pilate the Roman Governour Crucified Dead and Buried in the Sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea Rose again the Third Day and Ascended into Heaven and sits on the Right Hand of God in the Power and Majesty of his Father who will one Day Judge the World by him even that Blessed Man CHRIST JESUS according to their Works § 2. But because we so Believe must we not Believe what Christ said He that is with you shall be in you John 14. I in them and they in me c. Chap. 17. When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me c. Gal. 1. The Mystery hid from Ages is Christ in the Gentiles the hope of Glory Col. 1. Unless Christ be in you ye are Reprobates 2 Cor. 13. Or must we be industriously represented Deniers of Christ's Coming in the Flesh and the Holy Ends of it in all the Parts and Branches of his Doing and Suffering because we Believe and press the Necessity of Believing Receiving and Obeying his Inward and Spiritual Appearance and Manifestation of himself through his Light Grace and Spirit in the Hearts and Consciences of Men and Women to Reprove Convict Convert and Change them This we esteem hard and unrighteous Measure nor would our warm and sharp Adversaries be so dealt with by others But to do as they would be done to is too often no part of their Practice whatever