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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65871	A just enquiry into the libeller's abuse of the people called Quakers in his scandalous pamphlet, falsly stiled, Some of the Quakers principles, doctrines, laws and orders, &c.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1938; ESTC R38636	12,114	34

Copies tho' demanded both of Bugg Baptists and Athenians so called since we both questioned their broken Printed Copies with their dashes and c's And now I still Question the Truth of this as enlarged against John Audland and we disown it as it is let the Libeller Produce the Original Letters or sufficient Authority of Credit and no parties against us to prove his Copy exactly true in all parts and perticles thereof where there 's any stress of the Sence concerned for the Charge is high and requires strict proof in all Essential points as common Law and Justice doth of Indictments in Criminal Cases otherwise our Adversary's Copy of the said Letter may be of as much Credit as that J. A. writ it two Years after he was dead as before Both J. A. and J. C. were well known to many and still remembred to be sincere upright hearted Men fearing God and eschewing Evil who truly honoured and preached Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God our blessed Lord and Saviour as their own Testimonies on Record do still plainly Evince And that John Audland was a man of more Wisdom and of a more sensible Christian Spirit than to detract from or lessen the Honour Glory or Dignity only due and peculiar to Jesus Christ or to attribute the same to any other or to prefer G. F. or any Man or Creature else as the Fountain of Life in Christ's stead but only as an Instrument in God's hand for the Turning of many from Darkness to Light even to Jesus Christ the true Light for Life and Salvation Besides 't is no new thing for sincere Christians to praise the Lord God and to pray to him and to confess to the Power and Goodness of God in Christ Jesus the Fountain of Life even in a Letter or Epistle to a Friend or Friends as the Martyrs divers of them did in their Letters which if such their Confessions c. had been by their Adversaries turned and applied to the Persons or Friends they writ unto it had been a very foul abuse and perversion of their Letters and Intentions and so may this be to defame J. A. and his Friends for his sake for any thing yet appears to the contrary His confessions to Jesus Christ as the Fountain of Life and Strength and to his Power c. may possibly be wrongfully turned and attributed to another If we might see the very Letter it self from J. A. we could say more to it to manifest and clear the Truth To conclude this Point 1 st I find not that the said Letter is directed and applied by John Audland himself unto G. Fox 2 dly I do not approve thereof as cited and directed by our Adversaries with the date of 1665. unto G. F. As for John Audland's Christian Principle and clearness in behalf of Jesus Christ we have reason Charitably to credit his own Testimonies rather than Libels or any thing his and our Adversaries enviously suggest and turn or throw upon him or us to defame him and his Christian Reputation Now they know he is gone he is not here to answer for himself therefore his own Innocent undoubted Testimonies on Record shall speak for him and his holy Respect and Honour as is only due to the very Christ of God and against his Enemies In behalf of Jesus Christ according to the Holy Scriptures John Audland thus writes The Lord our Righteousness by whose Grace we are saved hath chosen us in Christ Jesus who hath all Power and Authority committed unto him and upon whose Shoulders the Government is laid pag. 116. Of the Collection of the Books and written Epistles of John Camm and John Audland And further Christ Jesus since the Fall of Adam hath perfectly fulfilled the Law of God and there is Salvation in NO OTHER pag. 117. ibid. Again of Christ The true Shepherd laid down his Life for the Sheep and he is the Door where no Thief can enter c. pag. 120 Christ is not born by the will of man pag. 122. That Christ expounded the Scriptures was never denyed by us he opened their Understandings to understand the Scriptures and the Spirit of Christ is one in all his Saints pag. 124. Dear Hearts other Foundation can no man lay then that which is laid already which is Christ Jesus the Light of the World the Way to Life and Everlasting Rest c. pag. 157. Let nothing seperate you from the Love of God in Christ Jesus our Light our Life and our Redeemer pag. 161. I must walk according to the Commands of Christ and his Apostles p. 180. Walking in the Spirit which mortifies the Deeds of the Flesh being subject to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ here is rest to the Soul pag. 188. We see the Way of Life to all that believe in the Name of the Lord Jesus p. 190. The Jews had a Law by which they Judged the HOLY ONE that he ought to dye pag. 202. Christ said Love your Enemies Pray for them that Persecute you p. 203. We find acceptance with God through Jesus Christ p. 222. You are washed sanctified and justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God pag. 250. The Seed of the Woman which all the Promises are unto Yea and Amen in Christ by which the Serpent's Head is bruised is but one which Seed is Christ pag. 269. Dear Hearts walk in the pure Eternal Love and Light of God that so you may come to the pure Life of God to follow the Captain of your Salvation who was made perfect through Sufferings p. 275 They i.e. the holy Prophets prophesied of Christ who was born not by the Will of Man supposed to be the Son of Joseph which was the Son of God pag. 287. These Passages are as many more might be truly Collected out of John Audland's Works and Writings to shew 1 st That he truly owned and honoured the true Christ the only begotten Son of God according to the holy Scriptures 2 dly That therefore no divine Attributations Confessions Honour or Worship only due and peculiar to our Lord Jesus Christ could he ever intend to any other besides him 3 dly These of J. A. his Free and Voluntary Confessions to the very Christ of God and his Light and Life c. are plain Indications of his clearness from the gross and absurd Imputations of Idolatry and Blasphemy wickedly Insinuated by his and our Adversaries 4 thly And how easily may such Apostate Adversaries wrong the Dead when they make no Conscience to wrong the Living as they have done in plain matter of Fact and what Credit then can their Scandalous Pamphlets or their Envious and defaming Suggestions and Reproaches many whereof are omitted here be of to any impartial Readers or Persons indifferent There are divers of those other Articles exhibited by the said Libeller in the said Pamphlet which are truly cited and owned by us which I need not vindicate until the Libeller come forth and make his Objections and own his said Pamphlet stiled Some of the Quakers Principles c. and subscribe his Name thereunto George Whitehead London in the 1 st Month 1693. THE END