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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

same glory and power of the Father in measure working in him there to beget Faith in his heart that he may believe unto Salvation from his own filthiness and righteousness as well as confess with his mouth Rom. 10. and must have that Spirit in him quickning his mortal body as well as to believe that it was in Christ and raised up him from the dead Rom. 8. 11. And this man whoever he be bond or free that thus believes the Death of Christ and its satisfaction to God as well as its usefulness to man cannot make it void nor divide it and its virtue upon the soul that thus knows 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 died man must have perished in his sin this being the way found out by God to recover him whereby he knows Christ and him crucified and what the preaching of the Cross of Christ is which is foolishness to them that perish but to them that are saved the Wisdom of God and the Power of God 1 Cor. 1. 18. By this Gift of God in our hearts we further believe That Christ Jesus rose again from the dead according unto the Scriptures and sits at God's right hand in a glorious body and we believe that our low estates and humbled bodies shall be made like unto his glorious Body through the working of his mighty Power whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself and that this mortality shall put on immortality For though we believe that Christ Jesus hath lighted every man with his Light whereby man may come to know himself lost and undone as before is said yet therefore is not every man saved though the Grace that appears to all men is sufficient in it self but some have the Grace of God bestowed on them in vain not liking to retain God in their knowledge though something within them shewes them what is good but they reject the Counsel of God within or against themselves to their own destruction Luk. 7. 30. see the Margent and yet it doth not follow that the Grace is insufficient of it self no more than it follows that Christ's Death is insufficient because he tasted death for every man and yet every man is not saved Neither doth Regeneration or the believing in the Light of Christ within make void the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem no more than believing the Scripture-testimony without concerning Christ's Death makes void the work of Regeneration and Mortification within but as the Apostle saith in another case so say I 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 that 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 cannot be so where the Light within is believed on and obeyed 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 in the heart by Faith doth not limit or consine Christ to be only within and not without also but both within and without according to the good pleasure of the Father to reveal and make him known for he fills 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 And we also believe the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust the one to Salvation and the other to Condemnation according unto the Judgment of the great Day and then shall every Seed have its own body according to 1 Cor. 15. 36 37 38. which we verily believe for if the dead arise not we are of all men most miserable But because we dare not be so foolishly inquisitive as to say With what bodies shall 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 a natural and spiritual corruptible and incorruptible terrestrial and celestial can be the same We further believe according unto the Scriptures concerning Faith that that Faith is only true which is God's gift and hath Christ Jesus the Power of God for its author and object and is distinguished from the dead Faith by its fruits for though in description and definition they may carry a resemblance yet in nature are as different as a living man is from a dead which wants not form or shape but life and power So saith the Apostle James As the body without a spirit is dead so is Faith without Works even so is that Faith which stands in the wisdom of words and not in the Power of God by the one man is kept in captivity to the world and the things of it but by the other he hath victory over the world 1 Joh. 5. 4. and the Seal and Witness thereof in his own heart whereby it is purified and God is seen for the pure in heart see God Mat. 5. 8. This Faith differs men now and their Worships as it did Cain and Abel for by Faith Abel offered a more excellent Sacrifice than Cain Heb. 11. By this living Faith Abel saw beyond the Sacrifice unto Christ the first-born of God beyond the firstling of the flock which he offered and therefore God had respect unto Abel and his Offering but God rejected Cain and his Offering though he had Faith to believe it to be his duty yet sticking in the Form and not flying on the wing of Faith unto Christ the One Offering he missed the mark as all have done ever since that have gone in Cain's way of worshipping as well as killing men about Worship But we believe that Faith to be onely true and saving that slyes over self-righteousness as well as filthiness unto the Fountain of Life in Christ which Faith hath nothing of man in it but is as the breath of Life by which the Soul lives not a bare assent to the truth of a proposition in the natural understanding but the Soul 's cleaving unto God out of a naturalness between Christ and the Soul and so lives rather by relation than bare credit or desperate adventure and hazard not looking at

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