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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	confess_v	flesh_n	jesus_n	7,758	5	7.1789	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47751	Primitive heresie revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers wherein is shewn in seven particulars that the principal and most characteristick errors of the Quakers were broached and condemned in the days of the Apostles and the first 150 years after Christ : to which is added a friendly expostulation with William Penn upon account of his Primitive Christianity lately published / by the author of The snake in the grass.	Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722.	1698 (1698)	Wing L1140; ESTC R26153	27,838	41

and Condemn'd in the Days of the Apostles This is it which St. John Reprehends 1 Joh. iv 3. Every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh c. or as Socrates Hist Eccl. l. 7. c. 32. tells us it was wrote in the Ancient Copys Every Spirit which separateth Jesus from God is not of God And he observes that this Text and other Parts of this Epistle were alter'd by those who would separate the Divinity of Christ from His Humanity Tho' as it now stands in our Copys it means the same thing for he that denys Christ to have been made Flesh only says that he took it upon Him for a Cloak or a Veil as Angels assume Bodys when they appear in them He denys Christ's coming in the Flesh so as to become Truly and Really a Man he takes away the Humanity of Christ and so separates Jesus from God Which in the sense of this Text is to Deny His coming in the flesh St. Polycarp in his Epist to the Philippians n. 7. Disputes against these Anti-Christs in the words of his Master St. John whose Disciple he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 says he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh is an Anti-Christ II. The Second point is the Quakers Denyal of the Truth and Reality of the Death and Sufferings of Christ This is Consequential to the former Heresie for if Christ took not the Body of Jesus into his own Person but only dwelt in the Body of another Man as he dwells in his Saints if Christ and Jesus are two Persons if the Body of Jesus was only a Veil or Garment for Christ to shrowd himself in as the Quakers speak then tho' Jesus suffer'd yet Christ could not and the Sufferings of Christ were but in Appearance and shew as if a Man's Cloak or Garment only were Crucify'd What are then those Sufferings of Christ which the Quakers do own as Meritorious in the sight of God for the Atonement of our sins Why an ALLEGORICAL Suffering Death and shedding of the Blood of their Light within which they call Christ of which Jesus or the outward Christ they say was but a Type and that his Sufferings were only an Historical Transaction of the Greater Mysterie of the Sufferings and Atonement perform'd by their Light within as I have fully shewn in The Snake in the Grass Sect. x. p. 127. and Satan Dis-Rob'd Sect. xii p. 11. But now I am to shew That the Devil had Broached these Heresies against the Truth of the Incarnation of Christ and consequently against the Reality of his Death and Sufferings within the first 150 Years after Christ and that they were then Condemned by the Holy Fathers of the Church Ignatius that Glorious Martyr of Christ Bishop of Antioch who flourish'd about the Year 70 after the Birth of Christ and was Disciple to St. John the Evangelist writes thus in his Epistle to the Magnesians instructing their Faith in what sort of Sufferings of Christ we were to Believe and Trust not these Inward in our hearts but to distinguish most effectually from these those that He suffered under Pontius Pilate I would have you Preserved that you fall not into the snare of vain Doctrin but that ye may abound and be filled with the knowledge of the Birth Passion and Resurrection which truly and firmly were of Jesus Christ our hope in the time of the Government of Pontius Pilate from which let none of you be turned away Stop your ears therefore says he in his Epistle to the Trallians when any shall speak to you without Jesus Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What Christ was this the Outward Man Jesus or the Light within That Jesus who was of the stock of David who was of Mary who was truly Born did both Eat and Drink was truly Persecuted under Pontius Pilate was truly Crucify'd and Dyed And who truly Rose from the Dead his Father Raising of him and his Father will after the like fashion Raise us up in Jesus Christ who believe in him without whom we cannot truly live But some Athiests that is Infidels do say That He only appear'd to be a Man but took not a Body in Reality and in appearance only seemed to Suffer and dye c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. And in the beginning of his Epistle to the Smyrnaeans after having Describ'd that Christ who is the Object of our Faith in the fullest manner to obviate the Deceit of applying it to an Inward Christ by calling Him the Son of David Born of the Virgin and Baptized of John truly Crucified under Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch none of which can be apply'd to The Light within He adds that we can only be saved by the Faith in this OUTWARD Jesus By the Fruits of whose Divinely Blessed Passion we are Saved For he suffer'd all these things for us that we might be saved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And to Obviate the two Heretical Pretences of making the Meritorious Suffering of Christ to be His Suffering within us And that His outward Sufferings were not Real but in appearance only as not being Really a Man but only Residing in that Man Jesus as in a Veil or Garment Ignatius adds in the next words And he truly suffered and truly Raised himself not as some Vnbelievers say that he only appeared to suffer they but appearing to Exist And as they Believe so shall it be unto them when they come to be out of the Body and in the state of Spirits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is they shall justly Forfeit the True and Real Benefits Purchased for True Believers by the death of Christ since they will have it to be only in Appearance or False shew and take the Merit from the Outward death of Christ which he suffer'd upon the Cross and place it in a Fancy'd Suffering of the Light within them And as He asserts the Faith in Christ's outward Death so does he in His Resurrection not the Inward Rising of Christ in our hearts but in His Outward Resurrection that which was proved by their Handling of Him and Feeling of His Flesh and His Eating and Drinking with them after His Resurrection But in the next Paragraph he has a Prophetick Exhortation which looks terribly upon the Quakers among others He tells the Smyrnaeans that he gives them these Admonitions not that he thinks them Guilty of these Heresies But I Guard you before hand says he against Beasts in Human shape whom you ought not only not to Receive but if it be possible not so much as to meet with them only to pray for them if they may at last Repent which will be difficult And again says he speaking of our Lord Jesus Christ Whom some not knowing do deny or rather are denyed by him