Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
spirit_n call_v lord_n speak_v 5,783 5 4.6215 3 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A30047 Something in answer to the allegation of the Quakers in their printed case presented to the House of Commons, Decemb. 1693 Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724? 1693 (1693) Wing B5397; ESTC R26564 6,334 10

There are 2 snippets containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

Something in ANSWER TO THE Allegations of the QUAKERS IN THEIR Printed CASE presented to the House of Commons Decemb. 1693. The INTRODUCTION HAVING seen one of your Papers wherein you pray'd That your Word may be taken instead of an Oath and humbly intreat them tenderly to demonstrate their Christian Charity reminding them that being merciful they may obtain mercy c. I know it is written The merciful shall obtain mercy and consequently the charitable shall be charitably dealt by but contrariwise what shall the unmerciful and uncharitable meet with and that you are those very Men your Principles and Doctrine laid down by your most Authentick Authors have mo●e then sufficiently manifested You know your Books are of two sorts the one to the World or the Worlds People the other to go only amongst your Disciples directed to be read in your Meetings In the first you frequently pretend to Charity Tenderness and Meekness this I call your Light side this you turn to the Parliament the other I call your Dark side which is so deformed that you are loath to have it viewed And yet by the last I mean by your uncharitable Names and reproachful Term● you have added more to your Flock then by your former for whoever believes that the Publick Ministers the Sacraments the Scriptures and P●otestant Religion to be what you say them to be are mad if they do not reject them all and turn Quakers especially if they also believe you to be what you say your selves to be viz. the only People of God And thereupon I shall recite some few Passages out of your Books wrote by your chief Ministers particularly G. Fox and Edw. Burroughs two great Prophets in O. C's time the memorable Works of the last you have reprinted in Folio and on the Title Page publish'd him to be A true Prophet a Son of Thunder a faithful Servant of God c. And the Works of the other some say are ready to appear in the World I shall not now recite the Prophesies of G. Fox in his Book stiled News coming up out of the North p. 20. nor E. Burrough's in his Works p. 203 244. but rather those Passages relating to Scripture Ordinances Publick Ministry and Parliaments with some few Observations and Queries In which I shall deal first fairly in citing and modestly in my Observations and Queries so that I hope there will not be a hard word in the whole Sheet unless it be your own And in regard you pretend to write by an Infallible Spirit equivolent to Scripture I hope you will not find fault with your own nor me I hope for calling a Spade a Spade But if you do 't is all one I am resolved God assisting to go on concluding that 't is as laudable for me to vindicate the Christian Religion in print as for you in print to undermine it and if it were possible to overthrow it but of this I will not be my own Judge but appeal to every Christian Reader and before ten or twelve impartial Men offer to produce every Book and Page which I quote Thus much by way of Introduction THEIR CONTEMPT OF SCRIPTURE AND ORDINANCES NEws coming up out of the North c. p. 14. Their Original is carnal and th●ir Communion is carnal a little Bread and Wine so Dust is the Serpent meat their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death so the Serpent feeds upon Dust and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter Page 34. A voice and a word to all you Deceivers who deceive the People and Blasphemers who utter forth your Blasphemy and Hypocrisie that tell People of a Sacrament and tell them it is the Ordinance of God Blush blush and tremble you who live in the witchery and bewitch the People Truths Defence c. p. 101. The Letter which killeth is dangerous and the Ministers of the Letter are Ministers of Death to you it is dangerous to read or speak of it Saul 's Errand c. p. 7. All that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjurers and their preaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the mouth of the Lord. David 's Enemies discovered c. p. 7. And these i. e. Quakers do not call the Letter the Rule and the four Books Matthew Mark Luke and John the New Testament and Gospel as thou i. e. Publick Minister and thy Generation do thy Ministry is in the Letter which killeth Geo. Whitehead Christoph Atkinson Several Petitions answered c. p. 30. But if ever you own the Prophets Christ or the Apostles you will own our Writings which are given forth by the same Spirit and Power Truths Defence c. p. 2 104. You might have as well condemned the Scriptures to the fire as our Books for our giving forth Papers or printed Books it is from the immediate Eternal Spirit of God Edw. Burrough 's Works p. 518. about Water-Baptism and the Sacrament hear him what he says viz. We do utterly deny and do say it is no Ordinance of God but is an Institution of the Whore of Rome and England received it by a Popish Institution and your Practice of it is Idolatry and no part of the Worship of God William Smith's Primer c. p. 36. Quest How is it concerning these things called Ordinances as Baptism and Bread and Wine Answ As to those things they arose from the Pope's Invention who hath had power in the night of Apostacy and hath set up his Devices which are yet continued in England though he seemingly is denied and the whole practice of those things as they use them had their Institution by the Pope and were never so ordained of Christ Edw. Burrough 's Works p. 51. Herein have you been bewitched from the obedience of the Truth within to obey the Letter without See p. 58. for more of this nature Observation and Query Let the Reader observe and see what grounds of Hope you can possibly have to be so tenderly and charitably received and imbraced who thus contemn the Scripture prophane the Ordinances of Jesus Christ and exalt your own Writings yea make void the Sufferings of the Martyrs and reject the Practice of the Churches of Christ in all Ages who received the Sacrament and were Baptized and yet had the Spirit as much as you can pretend to have So that as you confess your selves you were raised contrary to all men so are your Principles and Practices contrary to all the Churches of Christ since the Apostles days And thereupon I Query Query 1. Why do you not first Retract and Condemn these erronious Books if you be now of another mind if not with what Face can you appear to begg the Favour of such whose Christian Principles you are undermining THEIR CONTEMPT OF THE PUBLICK MINISTRY A Brief Discovery c. p. 7 8 9 10. The Priests
of the World are Conjurers Thieves Robbers Antichrist's Witches Devils Vipers Serpents scarlet coloured Beasts Merchants of Babylon selling beastly Wares the Letter which is Dust and Death greedy Doggs really they are Blood-hounds still hunting and gasping after their prey like the mouth of Hell ambitious Pharisees laying heavy Burthens on mens shoulders Wo wo wo was the Portion of those Pharisees then and wo wo wo is their portion now And Wo and Misery is the Portion of the Vpholders of that treacherous Crew and deceitful Generation who are the only Maintainers of the Seven Heads and Ten-horn'd Beast c. The Guide mistaken c. p. 18. And whilst the idle Gormondizing Priests of England run away with above fifteen hundred thousand pounds a year under pretence of being God's Ministers and that no sort of People have been so universally through Ages the bane of Soul and Body of the Universe as that abominable Tribe for whom the Theatre of God's most dreadful Vengeance is reserved to act their Eternal Tragedy upon c. per William Penn. An Antidote against the Venome c. p. 78. Truth allows no payment of Tythes at all under the New Covenant they who pay Tythes uphold a Legal Ceremony abrogated by Christ and thereby deny Christ to be come in the flesh which is a Mark of Antichrist Observation and Query Reader Note their uncharitable Sentance of the Publick Ministry as Gor nondizing Priests Witches Devils Blood-hounds c. upon whom God's dreadful Vengeance is to fall but above all that such as pay Tythes deny Christ come in the Flesh and are therefore so many Antichrists by this they have condemned the Martyrs and all Christians yea Kings Parliaments and People who pay or take Tythes c. and thereupon I Query of you Quakers who say you are raised contrary to all men Query 2. Whether you be of the same mind still if you are how then can you have the Face to ask any Favour at the Hands of such who not only pay Tythes but receive Tythes nay not only so but make L●ws that Tythes shall be paid and consequently by your Doctrine are Antichrist's and deny Christ come in the flesh if you say No your Minds are altered Then ●o make them believe so there is two things requisite first condemn your Books that so teach and let your Sincerity be confirmed by your paying them as the Law directs for if you say we never so said so writ nor so affirmed remember the P for I have the Books by me and let your Brother Jacob Baker be a warning to you THEY DENY JESUS OF NAZARETH William Smith 's Primer c. p. 1. How shall I know God Answ Thou must wait to know something of God in thee which in thy own Conscience he makes manifest Quest P. 8. How may I know when Christ is truly preached Answ They that are false Ministers preach Christ without and bid People believe in him as he is in Heaven above but they that are Christ's Ministers preach Christ within Quest P. 9. Here is then great difference in their Doctrine Answ Yes and no more fellowship then East with West W. Smith's Catechism Quest p. 57. And is that which is within you the only Foundation upon which you stand and the Principle of your Religion Answ That of God within us is so for we know it is Christ and being Christ it must needs be only and principal for that which is only admits not of another and that which is principal is greatest in being And thus we know Christ in us to be unto us the only and principal Quest 64. What is your Faith concerning Christ in you as a Mediator Answ We believe that Christ in us doth offer up himself a living Sacrifice unto God for us by which the Wrath and Justice of God is appeased towards us Quest What is your Faith concerning Christ in you as an Intercessor Answ We believe that Christ in us doth intercede the Father on our behalf Edw. Burrough's Works p. 149. Is that very Man with that very Body within you yea or nay Answ The very Christ of God is within us we dare not deny him Saul 's Errand c. p. 32. Did'st not thou write a Paper that he who thinks to be saved by that Christ who suffered at Jerusalem would be deceived Answ If I cannot witness Christ neerer then Jerusalem I shall have no benefit by him but I own no other Christ but that who witnessed a good Confession before Pilate which Christ I witness suffering in me now REMARK The that which they mean that made this Confession was the Life or Spirit or Substance which spake through him and not Jesus of Nazareth which was born of the blessed Virgin who sate on Jacob's Well who was smote with the Palms of their Hands run through with a Spear died rose again and in the same Body ascended up into Heaven in the sight of the Galaleans and there sits at the right hand of God making Intercession for us and shall come again in like manner at the last Day to Judge both Quick and Dead I say the that which they mean was not this Jesus of Nazareth but the Light Spirit and something in that Body And this I shall prove by a Text of their own Scriptures which they call the Word of God which Term they will not allow the Bible c. A Question to Professors c. p. 33. Now the Scriptures do expresly distinguish between Christ and the Garment which he wore between him that came and the Body in which he came between the Substance which was vailed and the Vail which vailed it There is plainly he and the Body in which he came there was the outward Vessel and the inward Life this we certainly know and can never call the Bodily Garment Christ but that which appeared and dwelt in the Body Observation and Query Now since 't is evident as heretofore I have from Scripture proved they deny Jesus of Nazareth and the Testimony of God Angels and Men I Query thereupon Query 3. How can you seek to Authority until you have under your Hands condemned these erronious Books with any hopes of a tender acceptation or can you rationally think they will take no notice of these ●our Antichristian Principles which you slily insinuate into the Minds of the People under the Notion of a New Gospel and a New Religion THEIR CONTEMPT OF GOVERNOURS Edward Burrough's Works p. 507. But as for this People the Quakers they are raised of the Lord and established by him even contrary to all men and they have given their power only to God and they cannot give their power to any mortal men to stand or fall by any outward Authority and to that they cannot seek P. 501. We stand Witnesses against Parliaments Councils Judges Justices who make and execute Laws in their Wills over the Consciences of Men or punish for Conscience sake to such Laws Customs Courts