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A96387	A charitable essay, in order to allay the outrage of a contentious apostate inverting his error (from true Christian faith and charity) upon him, in his book, falsly stiled, New Rome unmask'd, &c.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1693 (1693)	Wing W1903; ESTC R233852	12,571	8

A Charitable Essay IN Order to allay the Outrage of a Contentious Apostate inverting his Error from true Christian Faith and Charity upon him in his Book falsly Stiled New Rome Vnmask'd c. Thy Backslidings shall reprove thee Jer. 2.19 IN the first place let it be Noted that Francis Bugg in his Epistle Dedicatory to Sir H. N. in his late Book falsly Stiled New Rome Vnmask'd and her Foundation shaken doth thus Apologize viz. I have adventured to spend some Leisurable Hours to set forth to the World some Reasons why it is no Apostacy from the Christian Faith to separate from the Quakers Be pleased therefore that under your Name and Patronage they may appear as a Covert to vail their Imperfections for defective they must needs be in many respects first for that I am not indued with that Spirit the Apostles had Pray Observe here his Reasons against the Quakers so called must needs be very lame and defective indeed in many respects because they proceed not from the Spirit of Christ being that very Spirit the Holy Apostles and all true Christians had and have according to their several measures and degrees thereof but it appears F. B. is not indued therewith but with another a contrary Spirit from whence all his lame defective Reasons and bitter Reproaches against us proceed whence we may Argue 1. He that has not the Spirit of Christ is none of his Rom. 8.9 but F. B. has not the Spirit of Christ he is not indued with it therefore he is none of Christ's consequently no true Christian 2. He that for some time was in measure indued with the Spirit of Christ and afterwards so he forfeits and loses such his Induement or 〈◊〉 therein he is an Apostate from Christ and 〈◊〉 Spirit but F. B. was for some time so ind●●● with the Spirit of Christ and afterward hath backslidden and turned from the same Spirit pa●● therefore he is an Apostate from Christ and 〈◊〉 Spirit I suppose the First Proposition no ●●tional Christian Man will deny the Second 〈◊〉 Commendations of the People called Quak●● their Doctrin and Ministry As a dispensation of 〈◊〉 love of God sent as a visitation to Mankind 〈◊〉 Christian Society Love unfeigned and blessed E●● as in the beginning and for many Years c. w●●● accordingly he has highly commended both 〈◊〉 fore and since his Conformity in his Two Bo●● one Entitled De Christiana Libertate Ch. 1. 〈◊〉 2. Printed Anno 1682. The other The Qui●●detected p. 3. Printed 1686. about Two Y●●● after his Conformity to the Church of Engl●●● so that he must needs have been indued with 〈◊〉 Spirit of Christ whilst he felt his Blessing 〈◊〉 Presence among us but now he has lost tha● duement he is not now indued with the Spir● Christ which the Apostles had but since t●● a bitter Enemy to us and Railer in Print age● us therefore he is an Apostate not only 〈◊〉 the People called Quakers but from Christ 〈◊〉 his Spirit He proceeds in his Apology 〈◊〉 sufficient to grapple with such Scholars as are some be Chieftains of the Quakers Answ However ●1 F. B. art so plentifully accomplish'd with ●y and Scorn and so puft up with Pride and ●●tempt against us that thou knowest how to 〈◊〉 Scoff Flout Disdain Detract and Per●● such Rhetorick thy Bottle and Bundle is ●lenish'd withal But 't were far more reputa●● for thee to study to be Quiet and mind thy 〈◊〉 Business than to busie thy self in Defaming 〈◊〉 Reproaching others Thou hast accused us with a Crooked Creed ●ch thou callest the Qu●kers Creed made up of 〈◊〉 Articles or Six Creeds rather which thou ●●derest contrary to what 's either Apostolical or ●istian chiefly concerning Jesus Christ and the 〈◊〉 Scriptures falsly insinuating our denial there●● as in thy Epistle to the Bereans ch 3. p. 16. 〈◊〉 I must tell thee ' ti such a Creed as I never 〈◊〉 before to be termed a Creed 't is a Creed 〈◊〉 thy own modelling of thy own forming as ●●reed of thy own construing and of thy own ●●demning also as Anti-Apostolical Anti-Chri●●n Blasphemous and what not c. Thy 〈◊〉 and chief Charge of our not owning Him that 〈◊〉 Born of the Virgin Mary to be Christ or that 〈◊〉 Quakers cannot call HIM Christ and far●●r that the Quakers deny the same Christ Jesus ch 〈◊〉 all which being Notorious Falshoods thou 〈◊〉 deduced from Three Articles or Creeds ●●u hast formed as the Quaker's out of Isaac ●●nington's Questions to the Professors so thou art ●ome such a Learned Creed-maker that thou ●●st make Questions Creeds or turn particu●●● Questions into a general Creed and then ●●ke thy false Construction and thereupon Cry 〈◊〉 Oh! Horrible Blasphemy And therefore the ●●trary sense of every Article alledged against 〈◊〉 Quakers may be rationally and justly invert●●● upon thee as thy Sense and Creed 1. In the First Article or Creed thou Ob●●est and wouldst impose on the Quakers that 〈◊〉 Scriptures do expresly distinguish between CHRIST and the BODY in which he came be●een the SVBSTANCE which was Vailed and 〈◊〉 VAIL c. Lo I come a Body hast thou pre●red me There is plainly HE and the BODY which he came there was the outward Vessel 〈◊〉 the inward Life c. This being by F. B. ●demned as contrary to the Testimony of the ●rious Angels the holy Apostles blessed ●rtyrs and true Confessors for above these Christ for whom the Body was prepared 't was not Christ that came in the Flesh or Body there 's no such distinction in Scripture as between Christ and the Body the Vail and the Substance the outward Vessel and the INWARD LIFE Then behold this Creed-maker's Creed how contrary to plain Scripture-phrase and distinction it is viz. The Body of Jesus Mat. 27.58 Christ come in the Flesh 1 Joh. 4.2 3. who calls his Body this Temple Joh. 2.19 21. and the Apostle calls his Flesh the Vail Heb. 10.20 Lo I come a Body hast thou prepared me Psal 40.7 Heb. 10. Was not this I and Me Christ the Son of God And how plain is the distinction And Dr. Barns himself even as F. B. cites him p. 19. has the same distinction in his Creed or Belief That Jesus Christ who was conceived by the Holy Ghost TOOK Flesh o● the blessed Virgin Mary Very true who took Flesh of the Virgin 'T was Jesus Christ therefore Jesus Christ was before Yet we 'll readily grant that though the Names Jesus and Christ chiefly and in the first place belong to him that took the Body or Flesh as J. P. explains his meaning yet the Names Jesus and Christ were given to both his Body and Soul joyntly and severally in a Synecdochical way of speaking It was Christ that dyed but how As concerning the Flesh 1 Pet. 3.18 For his Divine Life never dyed nor did the Soul of the Messiah ever die But to which chiefly and primarily were the Names Jesus and Christ given 1. If to the Body or Flesh he took then the Body was above and more excellent than his Soul and the Flesh above the Spirit 2.

be our Creed●ker Construer or Expositor who hath un●tly infer'd this upon us from Is Pennington's ●●ing He took upon him the Flesh and Blood of our ●ture which is of an earthly perishing Nature ●hereby neither he nor the People called Qua●●s say That Christ's Body either was or is of 〈◊〉 earthly perishing Nature for his Flesh saw no ●rruption therefore did not perish tho● our ●●ture our Flesh and Blood be of an earthly pe●●ing Nature so is not Christ's I cannot ra●nally suppose that J. P. ever intended that ●rist's Body which on Earth did not corrupt 〈◊〉 of an earthly perishing Nature now in Hea●●● as ours is now on Earth take his Words al●●● Grammatically for it is such an absurdity as I 〈◊〉 not think ever entred into If. Pennington's ●art being a Man both of Learning Sense and ●●nscience The Flesh and Blood of our Nature ●●ng antecedent next to which is of an earthly ●●shing Nature Therefore perishing appears ●ly Relative to Flesh and Blood as 't is our's and ●●us and not to Christ's Body which is incor●●tible Object Doth not the Name belong to the whole ●●y c. So that there are as many Christ's by their ●●ctrin as believing Quakers Oh! horrible Bla●●emy Answ No that 's not our Doctrin there 's one ●●dy and so but one Christ 1 Cor. 12.12 But ●n the Question into F. B.'s contrary Doctrin ●lyed and then 't is The Name Christ belongs not ●●be whole Body Christ's Body i. e. his Church ●ot Anoynted it therefore hath no right to his Name 〈◊〉 any Member thereof but then doth not this ●ear contrary to the Apostle's Doctrin viz. 〈◊〉 as the Body is one and hath many Members and all 〈◊〉 Members of the Body which is one though they ●many yet are but one Body even so is Christ 1 Cor. 12.12 The Protestant Annotations in Queen Elizabeth's Bible are That we might be one Body with Christ and the whole Church one Christ And on Ephes 1.23 The Church is also called Christ 1 Cor. 12.12 What says our Adversary to these Annotations Dare he judge them horrid Blasphemy And he that establisheth us with you in Christ Jesus and hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anointed us is God 2 Cor. 1.21 Quest But doth not the Name belong to the whole Body and every Member therein as well as to the Head Answ 1. Not Equally because he is the Head 2. Nor Literally to be so named but vertually and spiritually and so truly with respect to that divine Power and Spirit whereby both the Head and the Body are Anointed and each Member partakes thereof in some measure But Christ the Head in all things has the Preheminence he was Anointed more eminently in Fulness his Members in part or measure by the same Spirit and Power he was Anointed above his Fellows implying their being anointed in degree 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ signifies Anointed as being the very Christ the only begotten Son of God which I know no Member of his Body assumes to himself but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christian which has relation to Christ the Anointed for where Christ's Church which is his Body is said to be the Fulness of him that filleth all in all Ephes 1.23 'T is not of the Church as distinctly considered from the Head but Christ the Head is included in that Fulness tho' his own proper Existence be entire compleat and most glorious Creed 4. A word to all you Deceivers c. I cannot apprehend how he can make the Quaker's Creed of this supposing the whole Passage unless every particular Reproof must be taken for a general Creed and then Argumentum ad Hominem may not this Creed-maker's calling the Quakers and their Ministers New Rome Painted Harlot Apostates Deceivers False Christ's Great Impostors Deluded Souls Black-guard of Lyars a Tribe of Wretches a Pack of Hypocrites the greatest Cheats c. be esteemed Francis Bugg's and his Minister's Creed But I dare say many of the Church of England would not like such a Creed to be formed and forged upon them from F. B.'s Railery and indecent Treatment of the Quakers As to his Charge on G. F. c. of the Letter being Dust Death Carnal Killing the Husk c. Cr. 4. 6. p. 78. I must refer the Ingenious Reader to G. F.'s own Explication in this very Matter where he intends by Letter not the Doctrin contained thus distinguishing it in his Great Mystery fol. 78 viz. The Letter Paper and Ink that the Letters are Carnal but the Scripture the thing it speaks of is Spiritual the Word is Spirit Thus G. F. His distinction appears between the Letter and the Spirit as between the Shadow and Substance and to be partly grounded on Heb. 9.10 Rom. 2.29 2 Cor. 3.6 and partly relating to the Nature of what he intends by Letter abstractly as in Paper and Ink which will decay and is not the Kernel the Seed the Life or Spirit which will never decay neither do we ascribe Holiness to the Paper and Ink or dead Characters but to the holy Doctrin and blessed Precepts contain'd which therefore are called The Holy Scriptures which we never did say are either Carnal Death or Killing but spiritual living and permanent The Holy Scriptures 2 Tim. 3.15 16. being put for the Holy Doctrin therein contain'd is a Metonymical Phrase Yet we are truly thankful to God for preserving to us the outward Writings Scriptures or Books commonly called the Bible Creed 5. The Light Christ by whom all things were made and created glorified with the Father before the World began and which the Scripture testifies of IS ABOVE the Scripture and before the Scripture was c. And this Christ is the same yesterday to day and forever whom the Saints came to witness WITHIN them not another Christ nor many Christ's c. G. F.'s Great Myst p. 254. Against which F. B. objects viz. According to their Creed last recited the same Christ by which all things were made and created in IN THEM which If true then that proves sufficiently what Eccles says viz. That the World was made by him which F. B. injuriously construes S. E. upon the Quaker's Creed to say of G. F. Oh! horrible and blasphemous Slander against us and expresly contrary to G. F.'s own Testimony for Christ before-cited But invert the said opposed Creed on our Opposer to his contrary sense and then it will run thus viz. 1. That Christ the Son of God by whom all things were made and of whom the Scripture testifies is NOT above the Scripture nor before the Scripture was Is not this Socinianism and a Denyal of Christ's Divinity 2. That the Saints came NOT to witness this Christ within them which is to deny their Christian Faith of Christ within 2 Cor. 13.5 Oh! what horrible Antichristianism and sad Apostacy is the Man run into thus to 〈…〉 out of himself and the Saints too contrary to Christ's own an his Apostle's