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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96383	Antichrist in flesh unmask'd, the Quakers Christianity vindicated, from the malicious and injurious attempts of [brace] Edward Paye, William Alcott, & Henry Loader, in their late defaming confused book falsly styled, Antichrist in spirit unmask'd, or Quakerism a great delusion, wherein their causeless outrage, folly and falshood are deservedly exposed.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1888; ESTC R186514	11,564	37

Antichrist in Flesh Vnmask'd AND THE Quakers Christianity Vindicated FROM THE Malicious and Injurious Attempts Of Edward Paye William Alcott Henry Loader In their late Defaming Confused BOOK Falsly Styled Antichrist in Spirit unmask'd or Quakerism a great Delusion Wherein their Causeless Outrage Folly and Falshood are deservedly Exposed But ye are forgers of lies Job 13.4 London Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-yard in Lombardstreet 1692. CHaritably hoping that many among the People commonly called Anabaptists are more Tender and Honest minded than some of their Ministers or Leaders who have shewen their Envy and Bitterness against us I would tenderly propose a few things to the more Honest Moderate and Charitable among them in and about Deptford and elswhere that may be concerned in reading that Scandalous and Malicious Book against us Falsly stiled Antichrist in Spirit Vnmasked or Quakerism a Great Delusion lately Owned and Published by their Brethren Edward Paye Henry Loader William Alcott I. That they have Causelessly and Unjustly begun a Quarrel against us to Defame us as a People who have had nothing but Love and Good-will to them and that People and maliciously tending to Reproach and Blast our Credit in what we have solemnly professed as to our Christian Belief and Religion both to the Civil Government and Nation II. They appear Envious against our Present Liberty as Men of a Turbulent Persecuting Spirit by seeking to invalidate and make void one Condition of our present Liberty which through God's Providence is granted us and them and that is our Profession of Faith in the three Divine Witnesses in Heaven the Father Son and Holy Spirit being one God blessed for evermore And acknowledging the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration Which Profession though sincerely owned and consented unto by us before the Parliament and accordingly accepted and inserted in the Act For exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and therein confessed to be a Profession of their Christian Belief Yet contrary thereunto these Persons have grossly Belied and Misrepresented Vs the People called Quakers accusing us with Vilifying and Contemning the Holy Scriptures and that we own not the Scripture but seemingly allow it Epist and Pag. 14. And that The Quakers are great Enemies to and Contemners of Holy Scriptures p. 20. both contrary to our Sincere and Christian Profession before-cited and to the Civil Government 's Belief and Acceptance thereof wherein these Anabaptists have neither done honestly towards us nor prudently towards their Superiors thus to contradict and consequently to affront the Government in its Belief and Charity towards us and to set Subjects at Variance and to raise Persecution against us again instead of being humbly thankful for their and our present Liberty III. They have not only abused particular Persons but a People a Religious Society fearing God and truly esteeming the Holy Scriptures when we have solemnly and sincerely declared to the Government That we believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are given by Divine Inspiration Wherein we are Believed Accepted and Tolerated by the Government Two or three Anabaptist Preachers divulge the contrary to the World in Print That the Quakers are great Enemies to and Contemners of Holy Scriptures and no Christians but deluded Impostors and their Profession a Compound of Heresies p. 8 20. And what 's the Consequence but therefore the Quakers are not fit to be tolerated nor to have their Liberty of Conscience or Exercise of Religion And no Doubt had these angry Anabaptists Power we should not enjoy our Liberties the very Nature and Tendence of these their Bitter Lying Invectives being to bring Persecution upon us as a People not to be given any Credit unto in our solemn Profession before Authority IV. Pray observe That much of the said Pamphlet or Book against us styled Antichrist in Spirit is collected out of other Books and Pamphlets of our Adversaries long since Answered and Refuted and their Authorities are utterly denied by us As the Westmorland Petitioners who were Envious Persecutors Thomas Hicks his Fictitious Abusive Dialogues who was proved a notorious Forger of Lies And a most Malicious Libel styled Tyranny and Hypocrisy c. without Author's Name yet cited and insisted upon against us Thus Credulous and Malicious are these Persons Edward Paye Henry Loader William Alcott as to take Scandalous Pamphlets on Trust whose Authorities we utterly Deny and Challenge them to prove them Authentick they having been long since sufficiently Answered Disproved and Refuted in our Friends Books one entituled The Christian Quaker in Folio another Reason against Railing another The Counterfeit Christian in 8o. another Judas and the Jews another The Divinity of Christ c. in 4o. another The Christianity of the People called Quakers vindicated in Answer to Dr. Forde and many others of our Friends Books which contain sufficient Answer to all the chief Objections and Reproaches scraped up in this Inveterate Lying Pamphlet aforesaid V. They have Unjustly and Falsly Curtalized and Perverted divers of our Friends Words and Passages in their Books leaving out the Explanatory Words and Sentences VI. They have argued fallaciously in divers things deducing Inferences and Charges from a particular to a general as from a particular Person chargeable as supposed they charge the General that is a Body of People which is very unjust as if where we find false Logick Absurdities and Errors committed by these particular Persons Edward Paye Henry Loader William Alcott we should charge them upon their whole Society or Body surely they would not be so serv'd VII It would be well for their Hearers who are more Peaceable and Prudent not to be subject to such Envious and Turbulent Teachers whose Work tends to Sedition Strife and Discord among their Neighbours but rather to reprehend their Rage and Railery and caution them to live peaceably among their peaceable Neighbours that mean them no harm VIII It is a manifest Sign the Lord has forsaken their Shadows and Forms of Profession who are turned into so much Envy and Bitterness as these Men are against other Dissenters more Christian like than themselves That they are turned from the Spirit into the Flesh which Envy is a fruit of The Primitive Tenderness Simplicity and Spiritual Discoveries and Preaching that were formerly among some of their Ancient and Eminent Brethren being now lost and slighted by these Gain-saying Adversaries which is their sad Apostacy who instead of owning the Sufficiency of the Spirit 's Teaching as they did formerly now oppose Immediate Inspiration p. 16. and possessing the Kingdom of Christ p. 52. and say that The Disciples did not expect this Christ to come into them p. 53. who is the same only and very Christ of God of whom the Holy Scriptures testifie they Quoting Deut. 18.15 Acts 3.22 Mat. 17.5 Luk. 24.39 Joh. 20.19 p. 52 53. 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above all Heavens that he might fill all Things And that by his Suffering and Sacrifice he hath obtained Eternal Redemption for us which through Faith in his Name and Power true Repentance and Conversion we livingly receive and effectually partake of That we are not Pardoned Justified Redeemed or Saved by our own Righteteousness Works Merits or Deservings but by the Righteousness Merits and Works of this our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ being both imparted and imputed to us as he is of God made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption Our Reconciliation Redemption Pardon Sanctification and Justification having respect both to his suffering Death and Blood upon the Cross As the one Peace Offering and Sacrifice and as our High Priest thereby making Attonement and Reconciliation for us and giving himself a Ransom for all Mankind And also to the effectual saving Work of his Grace and good Spirit within us bringing us to experience true Repentance Regeneration and the new Birth wherein we partake of the Fellowship of Christ's Sufferings and Power of his Resurrection In which Grace we ought to persevere in newness of Life and faithful Obedience unto him unto the end that we may be Heirs of the Eternal Salvation which Christ is the Author of We sincerely Believe also That the Man Christ Jesus is the only Mediator between God and Men our Intercessor and Advocate with the Father and that he exerciseth his Kingly Office and his Priestly and Prophetical Office in his Kingdom and Church here on Earth wherein he Governs and plentifully affords both Immediate Inspiration and Instruction to his Faithful Followers who walk in his Light to guide them into all Truth and he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his And that this same Lord Jesus Christ who dyed for all Men enlightens every Man coming into the World and was and is the Light of the World the Way the Truth and the Life and that the same Christ that was Crucified and put to Death as concerning the Flesh and quickned by the Spirit and Power of the Father he is Inwardly Revealed and Spiritually in the Hearts of True and Spiritual Believers by his Holy Spirit Life Light and Grace And that therefore his coming and appearing Outwardly in the Flesh and Inwardly in the Spirit cannot render him two Christs but one and the same very Christ of God blessed for evermore Also the saving Baptism which is that of the Spirit and the Lord's Supper in his Church and Kingdom we believe and receive in him the Substance Spiritually not apprehending our selves bound to remain under any outward Shadow or Type thereof in the clear Gospel-day of Christ The Immortality of the Soul of Man being Created in God's own Image and Inspired by him that formed Man And the Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Judgment And that every Man shall be reserved in his own distinct Being for his due and future Reward the Wicked unto the Day of Judgment Destruction and Wrath but the Righteous unto Eternal Life and Glory in their Spiritual Bodies like unto Christ's Glorious Body where they shall be equal to the Angels of God in Heaven These Things we sincerely Believe and Profess according to Holy Scripture-Testimony and as set forth therein as the Lord is pleased to give us Understanding thereof Being ready and willing to give more large Account and Demonstration of our Holy and Christian Profession as the Lord shall lay a necessity upon us And our Belief and Profession of these Matters is not new to us but according to that Light and Understanding we have received of the Lord and believed from the Beginning since we were a Suffering People gathered by him as also divers of our Ancient Friend's Ministry Books and Writings do more fully signifie and demonstrate POSTSCRIPT To evince with what Consciences these Anabaptists E. Paye W. Alcott and H. L. have writ against the Quakers pray observe these two or three Instances more 1. E. P. c. p. 46. read p. 6 7. Saul's Errand to Damascus And G. Fox takes the Name to himself saying He is the Eternal Judge of Quick and Dead Answ This is notoriously false in Fact being in the very same Book Saul's Errand recorded among those Matters Falsly charged on G. F. by his Adversaries the Priests and others in the County of Lancaster in their Petition p. 1 2 3 4 5 6. of Saul's Errand where G. F. opposeth and answereth their Objections 2. E. P. c. p. 29. That they meaning the Quakers say That Christ hath no Body but his Church Quoting Saul's Errand p. 9. Answ Which is notoriously false again For it was the said Priest's Objection against L. F. that he professed That Christ had never any Body but his Church Saul 's Errand p. 2. Which was also false and there recorded among their other false Charges objected tho' in the Answer it is confessed That Christ's Church is his Body 'T is also confessed That we are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones Which grants his particular Body and his Churches Union therewith Therefore far from such Profession as That Christ had never any Body but his Church E. P. c. p. 59. See Parnell 's Shield of Truth p. 12. Where he calls Water-Baptism a formal Invention and Imitation of Men and so a meer Delusion Answ This James Parnell speaks not of Water-Baptism without Distinction as they state it against him for he saith it was a Figure meaning as John and the Disciples used it but of Sprinkling Infants as he saith He received Water upon his Face as his Parents told him This he calls an Invention of Men and so do Baptists I think p. 67 68. Collection of J. P. 's VVritings Thus Immorral and Unjust are these Anabaptists in writing against us FINIS