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A54109 A brief answer to a false and foolish libel called The Quakers opinions for their sakes that writ it and read it / by W.P. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1678 (1678) Wing P1259; ESTC R26862 17,388 27

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A Brief ANSWER TO A False and Foolish LIBELL CALLED The QVAKERS Opinions For their sakes that Writ it and Read it By W. P. Being Defamed we Entreat 1 Cor. 4. 13. Printed in the Year 1678. Sober Reader THe end of Controversie with good men is the Advancement of the Truth with ill men of themselves and their base Interests in all which God is Judge who judgeth righteously and will reward every one according to their works nor doth his Judgment slumber Most Parties in Europe boast themselves of being Christians an excellent Character indeed but the worst is there is little more then a Boast in it I am not incharitable I have first judged my self Let none deceive themselves To be like Christ is to be a Christian and not else and Christians are in Concord for Christ is not divided neither is that Body of which he is truly Head at Variance how much Discord so much Degeneracy from God for he is one and so are those that are born of him the Children of God are not divided because one and the same holy Spirit leads them That which is the Guide of one is the Guide of all and by this shall it be known who are Gods Children if they bring forth the Fruits of his divine Spirit which saith the Apostle are these Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against such there is no Law And they sayes he that are Christs have crucified the Flesh with the Affections and Lusts this only will avail in the great Judgment of the Lord. Therefore I beseech all vain Contenders to consider of their own Standing what their Work is who Employes them and what their Wages will be Tell me thou vain Disputer and Vitious Liver what is Religion without Holy Love what is Faith without Good Works what is Worship without Godly Fear and Christianity without true Self-denyal it is not he that cryes Lord Lord but he that does the Will of my Father said Christ shall be accepted There is a great talk of mans Laps in Adam and Restoration in Christ but they serve only for a sound with too many For did people sincerely believe that they are fallen from true Love Meekness Patience Humility Mercy Justice Purity c. and did they but consider that they are not restored to those Heavenly Qualifications but that they live in fleshly lusts of one sort or other some in Voluptuousness others in Envy and therefore not really restored or redeemed by Christ nor truly in a state of Salvation but in peril of eternal Misery certainly they would not pass away their little span of precious time in so much worldly Pleasure neglect of God and Carelesness of the other World if they have any the least hope of it Reader the Petulancy of some Adversary or other has given occasion for this little Treatise The design of which is both to reprove him and to hinder others from being abused by him that so the Innocency of a People whom God hath raised by his own Power and Wisdom to glorify him in their Bodies Souls and Spirits which are his may be delivered from the mistakes of his Ignorance and the reflections of his Malice And truly my servent Prayers to Almighty God are that he would yet more and more send forth his Light and his Truth to inform the Understandings and overcome the Hearts of all People that they may experimentally know the Redemption of their Sou's from the prevalency of Sin and the power of the God of this World's Lusts by the Blood of Jesus who is the Lamb of God that takes away the Sin of the World then shall Love Faith and Holiness encrease and all Unrighteousness come to an End Amen W. P. AN ANSWER TO A False and Foolish Libel CALLED The QVAKERS Opinions OPINION I. THe Quakers deny the Authority of holy Scriptures as the Rule of Faith and Practice unto Christians Answer This we flatly deny and charge our Adversary to make it good in terminis in so many words or retract his Charge For the Authority of the Scripture is the Spirit and Power of God which we say is our Rule and Guide as it was the Rule of the holy Men of God both before the Scriptures were written and when they spoke and writ them And to say we deny it to be our Rule is to say we deny our own Principle for owning of which you are angry with us Moses is taken on all hands to have been the first Penman of Sacred Story and that we cannot rise higher then his time for Scripture consequently then the Scripture must take date but who will deny that Abel had a Rule to worship God by Enoch to walk with God by Noah to preach by Abraham Isaac and Jacob to believe by if they had none say so if they had what was it if not the Spirit of Truth and Holiness that strove with the old World but was resisted And if the Spirit of God was the Rule of Faith Worship and Practice then have we got another Rule in the room of it now No such matter those that loved feared God in all Ages were ruled and guided by the Spirit of God though many Helpers have been afforded men by the Father of Mercies and Lights yet still the Spirit of Truth is the great Rule in and through them all This is the Rule of all Rules as God is the Light of all Lights yea this is that Rule of the New Creature for the walking of the true Christian is in and after the Spirit yea 't is the Mark of being a Child of God to be led and guided by the Spirit of God this is the Scripture's Testimony There is no Condemnation to those that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit and as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God The Argument is plain and altogether as unanswerable That which is to lead Christians is to rule Christians but the Spirit of Truth is to LEAD CHRISTIANS consequently the SPIRIT OF TRUTH is to RULE CHRISTIANS So that to deny that the Spirit of Truth is the Guide and Rule of Christians is to gainsay the Testimony of Scripture and the very Tenure and Nature of the second new and everlasting Covenant of Life and Salvation for in that state the Law is writ in the Heart and the Fear and Spirit put in the inward Part and what for if not to rule and guide the Soul in the Path of Life To conclude As the Spirit of Truth revealed to the Prophets things to come and was a Rule to them in discerning receiving declaring and writing those things so is the same Spirit of Truth the Rule and guide to all God's People in their reading and understanding of them now written and blessed are they that read with a good Understanding And that the Simplicity of none may be abused we declare as we have frequently done
and walkest despightfully against the Spirit of Grace Oh vain man yet thou canst say God is merciful and live in thy Wickedness passing on thy time without the Fear of God sporting thy self in thy Wickedness What think you now Does this man say the people ought not to pray for a sight of their sins which they see not in order to Repentance or can he mean so let Candor speak For that I said before must be the meaning of this Adversary or he means nothing because in the other sense all must grant that men ought not to tempt provoke and mock God by praying for a fight when they have it and don 't use it What then is the Conclusion of this Matter why plainly this that from G. F. saying that those who say the Lord give us a sight of our sins that have a sight of them already and forsake them not do therein tempt God This Enemy of ours makes no scruple of Conscience to infer and conclude that G. F. says that we ought not to pray to God to give us a sight of our sins at all without any regard to the Distinction of having the sight already be it that such have forsaken what God has given them a sight of or that they have Sins they have yet no sight of yet G. F. says we must not pray for a sight of our sins if this Adversary may be credited Well the Lord God Almighty who is the Searcher of all Hearts knows the end of this Person in writing and spreading these Calumnies and Perversions and with him I leave him and his Work but so as that I sincerely desire that he may have a sight of his sin against God and an harmless People if he acts ignorantly and that he may sincerely repent and find Mercy with the Lord if he acts maliciously before he goes bence and be no more seen for it s not a sleight thing to mischarge and that so peremptorily too an entire People about matters of the World that is without end I shall conclude this Defence with these three things the first is that most of the Opinions he calls ours are not so evinced or so much as attempted to be proved by the Author of the Libel against us 2dly Those that are endeavoured to be fastened on us have not their due proof one Person it may be is produced to make good a Charge against a Body of People would our Adversaries be thus used would they be concluded by the Word or Act of any one Member of their numerous Communion certainly no Besides the Proofs that are brought are some lame others perverted and some forged which looks very dishonourable on the part of our Accuser first to mis-charge then mis-cite and lastly wrack words well intended to extort if possible a Consession of guilt but the truth is Error can only be maintained by Error and therefore there is no wonder in the case This is the Usage we have mostly met with put thanks be to God we are neither surprized nor unqrepared Lastly I do hereby offer a fair and free Conference with the Author or Authors of the Libel or any other that can soberly pretend to a Conscientious Dissatisfaction about our Faith or Practice at such time as shall be mutually agreed upon to be convenient And this I offer not out of Vanity or Oftentation but in Duty to God my great Lord and Master and in good will to all such Persons and did not these Considerations prevail and carry me to this Condescention my manifold Affairs and the many and large Books I have already writ on occasion of these and the like Imputations would have disswaded me from any fresh undertaking of this nature and sufficiently guarded me against all Reflections upon my Silence I am a Friend to Mankind William Penn. THE END ‖ This was the Doctrine of Luther Zwinglius Calvin Oecolampadius Beza and Marlorat abroad and of W. Tindal D. Barns John Frith John Bradford J. Woodman Philpot Fox Jewel Whittiker c. at home that the Scriptures Authority to us stood in the inward Testimony of the Spirit of God See my Quakerism a New Nick-Name for Old Christianity and my Rejoynder in defence of the same from pag. 24. to pag. 101. and from pag. 31. to pag. 186. Gal. 6. 15. Rom. 1. 14. Jer. 35. 33 34. Hebr. 8. 13. 2 Tim. 3. 15 16 17. Chap. 3. 1 2 3 4 5. Gal. 5. 19 20 21. Luke 20. 35 36 37 38. Joh. 11. 25. 1 Cor. 15. 34 35 36 37 38. Rev. 20. 5. Acts 4. 12. 2 Tim. 1. 10. Rom. 3. 25. 1 John 2. 2. 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. Heb. 8. 6. Chap. 12. 24. Rom. 8. 34. Heb. 7. 25. 1 John 2. 16. Mat. 7. 23. James 1. 27. John 8. 23. Chap. 15. 18 19. Chap. 18. 36. Mat. 5. 11. 1 Cor. 4. 10 13. John 8. 12. 1 John 1. 7. Proverbs 4. 18. Isa 2. 5. Chap. 49. 6. Rom. 13. 12 13. 14. John 9. 14 16. 1 Cor. 12. 7. John ● 19. Gen. 17. 1. Gen. 5. 22. 6. 9. Job 1. 1. Matthew 5. 48. 1 Thessal 5. 23. Ephes 4. 13. 1 Timoth. 3. 17. Heb. 6. 1. 13. 21. 2 Pet. 5. 10. 1 John 1. 7. Chap. 2. 13. Chap. 3. 9. Chap. 4. 12 16 17. Chap 5. 4 18. Chap. 3. ver 4 5 8 9. Mat. 1. 21. 1 John 1. 5. Acts 17. 27 28. Jer. 23. 23 24. Iob 25. 3. Genesis 2. 7. Mat. 4. 6 12. Iohn 5. 9. and 19. 7. 5. 39 40. Iohn 1. 1. Revel 19. 13. Luke chap. 1. Iohn 6. 63. Gal. 1. 16. 4. 19. 2 Cor. 13. 4. John 14. 1 3 18 19 20. Chap. 16. 20 21 22 23 25 26. Matthew 10. 38. Chap 16. 24. Mark 8. 34. Luke 9. 23. Revelat. 3. 20. 1 John 5. 8. Matthew 12. 29. Chap. 15. 19 20. Chap. 3. 11 12. Rom. 1. 16. Ephes 6. 19. 3. 3. Col. 1. 26. 1 Tim. 1. 11. Psalm 109. 7. Prov. 28. 9. Isa 1. 13 14 15.