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A54243	Truth further clear'd from mistakes being two chapters out of the book entituled, Primitive Christianity reviv'd : plainly acknowledging the benefit accruing by the death and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of mankind, together with a comparison of the principles of the people called Quakers, and the perversions of their opposers, by way of postscript / by W.P.; Primitive Christianity reviv'd. Selections	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1698 (1698)	Wing P1391; ESTC R33341	12,151	50

it be of their Profession § 3. Yet we are very ready to declare to the whole World that we cannot think Men and Women can be saved by their Belief of the one without the Sense and Experience of the other and that is what we oppose and not his Blessed Manifestation in the Flesh We say that he then overcame our Common Enemy soiled him in the open Field and in our Nature triumphed over him that had overcome and triumphed over it in our Forefather Adam and his Posterity and that as truly as Christ overcame him in our Nature in his own Person so by his Divine Grace being received and obeyed by us he overcomes him in us That is he detects the Enemy by his Light in the Conscience and enables the Creature to resist him and all his Fiery Darts and finally so to Fight the Good Fight of Faith as to overcome him and lay hold on Eternal Life § 4. And this is the Dispensation of Grace which we declare has appeared to all more or less teaching those that will receive it to deny ungodliness and wordly lust and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World looking for which none else can justly do the blessed Hope and glorious Appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ c. Tit. 2. 11 12 13. And as from the Teachings and Experience and Motion of this Grace we minister to others so the very drift of our Ministry is to turn Peoples Minds to this Grace in themselves that they may all up and be doing even the good and acceptable Will of God and work out their Salvation with fear and trembling and make their High and Heavenly Calling and Election sure which none else can do whatever be their Profession Church and Character For such as Men sow they must reap and his Servants we are whom we obey Regeneration we must know or we cannot be Children of God and Heirs of Eternal Glory And to be Born again an other Spirit and Principle must prevail leaven season and govern us than either the Spirit of the World or our own depraved Spirits and this can be no other Spirit than that which dwelt in Christ for unless that dwell in us we can be none of his Rom. 8. 9. And this Spirit begins in Conviction and ends in Conversion and Perseverance And the one follows the other Conversion being the Consequence of Convictions obey'd and Perseverance a natural Fruit of Conversion and being Born of God for such Sin not because the Seed of God abides in them John 3. 7 8. but through Faithfulness continue to the end and obtain the Promise even Everlasting Life § 5. But let my Reader take this along with him that we do acknowledge that Christ through his Holy Doing and Suffering for being a Son he learned Obedience has obtained Mercy of God his Father for Mankind and that his Obedience has an Influence to our Salvation in all the Parts and Branches of it since thereby he became a Conqueror and led Captivity Captive and obtained Gifts for Men with divers Great and Precious Promises that thereby we might be partakers of the Divine Nature having first escaped the Corruption that is in the World through Lust I say we do Believe and Confess that the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ Jesus affects our Salvation throughout as well from the Power and Pollution of Sir as from the Guilt He being a Conqueror as well as a Sacrifice and both through Suffering Yet they that reject his Divine Gift so obtained and which he has given to them by which to see their Sin and the sinfulness of it and to repent and turn away from it and do so no more and to wait upon God for daily strength to resist the Fiery Darts of the Enemy and to be Comforted through the Obedience of Faith in and to this Divine Grace of the Son of God such do not please God believe truly in God nor are they in a state of true Christianity and Salvation Woman said Christ to the Samaritan at the Well hadst thou known the Gift of God and who it is that speaketh to thee c. People know not Christ and God whom to know is Life Eternal John 17. because they are Ignorant of the Gift of God viz. a measure of the Spirit of God that is given to every one to profit with 1 Cor. 12. 7. which reveals Christ and God to the Soul Flesh and Blood cannot do it Oxford and Cambridge cannot do it Tongues and Philosophy cannot do it for they that by Wisdom knew not God had these things for their Wisdom They were strong deep and accurate in them but alas they were clouded puft up and set farther off from the Inward and Saving Knowledge of God because they sought for it in them and thought to find God there But the Key of David is an other thing which shuts and no Man opens and opens and no Man shuts and this Key have all they that receive the Gift of God into their Hearts and it opens to them the Knowledge of God and themselves and gives them a quite other Sight Taste and Judgment of things than their Educational or Traditional Knowledge afforded them This is the beginning of the New Creation of God and thus it is we come to be New Creatures And we are bound to declare there is no other way besides this by which People can come into Christ or to be true Christians or receive the Advantage that comes by the Death and Sufferings of the Lord Jesus Christ Wherefore we say and upon good Authority even that of our own Experience as well as that of the Scriptures of Truth Christ will prove no Saving Sacrifice for them that refuse him for their Example They that reject the Gift do deny the Giver instead of themselves daily for the Givers sake O that People were wise that they would consider their latter End and the things that make for the Peace thereof Why should they perish in a vain hope of Life while Death Reigns Of living with God who live not to him nor walk with him Awake thou that sleepest in thy Sin or at best in thy Self-righteousness Awake I say and Christ shall give thee Life For he is the Lord from Heaven the quickening Spirit that quickens us by his Spirit if we do not resist it and quench it by our Disobedience but receive love and obey it in all the Holy Leadings and Teachings of it Rom. 8. 14 15. To which Holy Spirit I commend my Reader that he may the better see where he is and also come to the true Belief and Advantage of the Doings and Sufferings of our Dear and Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who saves from the Power and Pollution as well as Guilt of Sin all those that hear his knocks and open the Door of their Hearts to him that he may come in and work a real and through Reformation

TRUTH Further Clear'd from MISTAKES BEING Two Chapters out of the Book ENTITULED Primitive Christianity Reviv'd Plainly acknowledging the Benefit accruing by the Death and Sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ for the Salvation of Mankind TOGETHER WITH A Comparison of the Principles of the People called Quakers and the Perversions of their Opposers by way of Postscript By W. P. Dublin Printed in the Year 1698. Reader OCcasion having been given us we never sought we continue to improve it to the further Explanation and Defence of our so much abused Profession that if possible People may see at least the more Sober and Candid That we are not at that distance from Truth nor so Heterodox in our Principles as we have been by too many either hastily or interestedly Represented but that indeed we hold the Great Truths of Christianity according to the holy Scriptures and that the Realities of Religion are the Mark we press after and to disabuse and awaken People from their false Hopes and carnal Securities under which they are too apt to indulge themselves to their Irreparable Loss that by our setting Christian Doctrine in a true Light and receiving and pressing the Necessity of a better Practice They may see the Obligation they are under to redeem their precious time they have lost by a more careful Employment of that which remains to a better purpose This has occasioned Us to Re-print the 8th and 9th Chapters of Primitive Christianity being willing to Speak in the Language of what has been already made Publick that it may be seen We neither Change tho for the better is always commendable nor Write otherwise now then before to serve a present Turn In which and a Postscript comparing our Principles with our Opposers usual Perversions the Ingenious Reader may easily discern how Ill We have been Treated and what Hardships We have laboured under through the Prejudice of some and the Unreasonable Credulity of others and do Us the Justice to believe that We are a People in Earnest for Heaven and in that way our Blessed Lord hath trod for Us to Glory For no Cross no Crown CHAP. VIII Sect. 1. Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification Owned and Worded according to Scripture Sect. 2. What Constructions we can't believe of them and which is an abuse of them Sect. 3. Christ Owned a Sacrifice and a Mediator Sect. 4. Justification Two-fold from the Guilt of Sin and from the Power and Pollution of it Sect. 5. Exhortation to the Reader upon the whole Obj. 1. THough there be ma-many good things said how Christ appears and works in a Soul to Awaken Convince and Convert it yet you seem not particular enough about the Death and Sufferings of Christ And it is generally Rumour'd and Charged upon you by your Adversaries that you have little reverence to the Doctrine of Christ's Satisfaction to God for our Sins and that you do not Believe That the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ when He was in the World is the alone ground of a Sinners Justification before God Answ § 1. The Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification truly understood are placed in so strict an Union that the one is a necessary Consequence of the other and what we say of them is what agrees with the suffrage of Scripture and for the most part in the terms of it always believing that in Points where there arises any difficulty be it from the Obscurity of Expression Mis-translation or the Dust raised by the Heats of Partial Writers or Nice Criticks it is ever best to keep close to the Text and maintain Charity in the rest I shall first speak Negatively what we do not own which perhaps hath given occasion to those who have been more Hasty then Wise to judge us defective in our Belief of the Efficacy of the Death and Sufferings of Christ to Justification As § 2. First We cannot Believe that Christ is the Cause but the Effect of God's Love according to the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple John Chap. 3. God hath so loved the World that he hath given his only Begotten Son into the World that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have Everlasting Life Secondly We cannot say God could not have taken another way to have saved Sinners than by the Death and Sufferings of his Son to satisfie his Justice or that Christ's Death and sufferings were a strict and rigid Satisfaction for that Eternal Death and Misery due to a Man for Sin and Transgression For such a Notion were to make God's Mercy little concerned in Man's Salvation and indeed we are at too great a distance from his Infinite Wisdom and Power to judge of the Liberty and Necessity of his Actings Thirdly We cannot say Jesus Christ was the greatest Sinner in the World because he bore our Sins on his Cross or because he was made Sin for us who knew no Sin an Expression of great levity and unsoundness yet often said by great Preachers and Professors of Religion Fourthly We cannot Believe that Christ's Death and Sufferings so satisfies God or justifies Men as that they are thereby Accepted of God They are indeed thereby put into a state capable of being accepted of God and through the Obedience of Faith and Sanctification of the Spirit are in a state of Acceptance For we can never think a Man justified before God while Self-condemned or that any Man can be in Christ who is not a New Creature or that God looks upon Men otherwise then they are We think it a state of Presumption and not of Salvation to call Jesus Lord and not by the Work of the Holy Ghost Master And he not yet Master of our Affections Saviour And they not saved by him from their Sins Redeemer And yet they not redeemed by him from their Passion Pride Covetousness Wantonness Vanity Honours vain Friendships and Glory of this World Which were to deceive themselves for God will not be mocked such as Men sow such must they reap And though Christ did Die for us yet we must by the Assistance of his Grace work out our Salvation with fear and trembling As he Died for Sin so we must Die to Sin or we cannot be said to be saved by the Death and Sufferings of Christ or throughly justified and accepted with God Thus far Negatively Now Possitively what we own as to Justification § 3. We do Believe that Jesus Christ was our Holy Sacrifice and Attonement and Prepiriation that he bore our Iniquities and that by his Stripes we were healed of the Wounds Adam gave us in his Fall and that God is just in forgiving true Penitents upon the Credit of that Holy Offering Christ made of himself to God for us and that what he did and suffer'd satisfied and pleased God and was for the sake of fallen Man that had displeased God And that through the Offering up of himself once for all through the Eternal Spirit he hath for Ever perfected those in all

of Sin cannot be obtained 1 John 3. 19 20 21. Rom. 8. 13 14. Joh. 3. 19 20. Rom. 8. 2 16. Gal. 6. 8. 2. Thess 2. 13. XI Because we make Evangelical Obedience a Condition to Salvation and works by the Spirit an Evidence of Faith and a holy Life both Necessary and Rewardable Tit. 3. from vers 3. to 9. Tit. 2. 14. Jam. 2. 22. XII When we say that in some respects Christ was not our Sacrifice but Example and that his Obedience to his Father doth not Excuse ours but as he abode in his Father's Love by Keeping his Commandments we must follow his Blessed Example John 15. 9 10. XIII From our pleading for a Purification and Perfection from Sin agreeable to the Testimony of the holy Scriptures on this side the Grave through the pure Workings of the Holy and Perfect Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ Mat. 5. 48. Mat. 19. 21. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Col. 1. 28. Tit. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 22 23. XIV Because we say with the Apostle That Men ought to Pray Preach and Sing with the Spirit and that no Man can Rightly worship GOD without the Preparation by and Assistance of his holy Spirit and that we ought to wait to feel It for that end and that other Worship is Formal and Carnal Rom. 8. 26. 1 Cor. 14. 15. Prov. 16. 1. Luk. 24. 49. Acts 1. 4. Acts 2. 1. Psal 39 2 3. XV. From our denying the Resurrection of the same Natural and Corruptable Body and declining to be Inquisitive and Critical about what Body we shall rise with according to the Caution of the Apostle therein leaving it to the Lord to give us a Body as pleaseth him 1 Cor. chap. 15. 2 Cor. 5. 1 2. Their Adversaries Perversions OUr Adversaries are pleased to make us to deny and undervalue the Scriptures as Not to he a Rule in any Respect tho' our Books plentifully shew we confess them to be the Next and Secondary Rule to the holy SPIRIT and that we ever chuse to express our Belief of Christian Faith and Doctrine in the Terms thereof They also say We prefer our own Books before them while we Love Honour and use Them above all the Books in the World and refuse to express matters of Faith in other Terms than what are Expresly in Scripture or so agreeable as to leave no just ground for any doubt of our Respect and Regard to them Such as desire to lessen the Credit of our Perswasion with sober People Represent us to deny the Trinity at large and in every sense tho' we only reject School-Terms and Philosophical Definitions as Unscriptural if not Unsound and as having a Tendency to Fruitless Controversie instead of Edification and Holiness among Christians We have been Uncharitably Represented by some as if we denied All outward Means or Contradicted our selves in the Use of them which they may as well charge against the Apostle John in Asserting the Sufficiency of the Anointing People have been told by our Adversaries That we believe every Man has Whole GOD and Whole CHRIST in him and consequently so many Gods and so many Christs Tho' we Assert no more but the very Language of the holy Ghost in the Scriptures of Truth and mean no more by it than that Christ by his Light and Spirit dwelleth in the hearts of his People It has been inferred that we hold that Christ is in and to Wicked Men as he is in and to his Saints tho' he is a Condemner to the One and a Comforter to the other Our Opposers will have it That all who have this Light must consequently be Good Men whether they Obey it or no or else the Light is Insufficient Some are not ashamed to tell the World in our Name That Christ was never visible as to his Bodily Appearance and consequently that we deny his Coming in the Flesh above sixteen hundred years ago tho' his coming then is an Article of our Christian Belief We are represented to Deny or Undervalue the Coming of Christ without us and the Force and Efficacy of his Death and Sufferings as a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World tho' we only Deny the Benefit thereof to such who by Living in Sin instead of Dying to Sin and Pleasing instead of Denying themselves to please GOD Deprive Themselves thereof Some unworthily conclude we disown Christ as a Satisfactory Sacrifice in his Death and Sufferings and as if we did not believe he died for the Sins of the Whole World or that he Carried away Sin and Sealed Redemption in his Blood to as many as Rightly Believe and that we expect both to be Forgiven and Accepted of GOD not for his sake but our own Works Which Suggestions we utterly detest and disown It is inferred against us That we deny Justification at all in any sense by the Death and Sufferings of the Propitiatory Sacrifice of Christ for the Sins of the whole World Than which nothing can be more Uncharitable Untrue or Unjust Since we Never did nor can believe the Remission of Sins in any other Name than that of our Lord Jesus Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself up once for all an Holy and Acceptable Sacrifice to GOD. Our Opposers would make People believe we hope to be sav'd by our own Works and not by Grace which is the Gift of GOD and so make them the Meritorious Cause of our Salvation and consequently Papists They will have us to mean and venture to say for us that we believe our Lord Jesus Christ to be in all things but an Example and in no rerespect our Sacrifice We are made so presumptious as to assert the FULNESS of all Perfection and Happiness attainable in this Life Ignorance or Envy suggests against us That if GOD will not compel us by his Spirit he must go without his Worship We are made to Deny the Resurrection of any Body however Spiritual or Glorified and even of Eternal Rewards too Which if True we are of all People the most miserable THus Sober Reader thou hast some Taste of the Usage we have received in a more abundant manner at their hands who have Undertaken to give an Account of our Belief to the World that it has been very hard for People to see us through those Disguises that Interest Ignorance or Malice hath put upon us But 't is our desire for thy own Good as well as our Defence that GOD would please by the Light of his dear Son to give thee a Clear and Effectual Sight of the Dispensation of his Heavenly Truth in the Inward Parts which he hath blessed us withal Viz. the Revelation and Setting up of the Kingdom of CHRIST in the Hearts and Souls of the Sons of Men where Sin and Self have so much and so long Prevailed that thou mayest come to be a Witness of us Goodness and thy Soul with ours Admire Adore and for ever Praise his most Glorious and Everlasting NAME through his dear and Well-Beloved SON and our REDEEMER for He is Worthy Worthy Worthy World without End Dublin the 26th of the 3d Month 1698. WILLIAM PENN THE END