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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

in and for them And so the Benefit Virtue and Essicacy of his Doings and Sufferings without us will come to be livingly applied and felt and fellowship with Christ in his Death and Sufferings known according to the Doctrine of the Apostle which those that live in that which made him suffer know not tho' they profess to be saved by his Death and Sufferings Much more might be said as to this matter but I must be brief § 6. To conclude this Chapter we wonder not that we should be mistaken mis-construed and mis-represented in what we believe and do to Salvation since our Betters have been so treated in the Primitive Times nor indeed is it only about Doctrines of Religion for our Practice in Worship and Discipline have had the same Success But this is what I earnestly desire that however bold People are pleased to make with us they would not deceive themselves in the great things of their own Salvation That while they would seem to own all to Christ they are not found disowned of Christ in the last Day Read the 7th of Matthew it is he that hears Christ the great Word of God and does what he enjoyns what he commands and by his Blessed Example recommends that is a Wise Builder that has founded his House well and built with good Materials and whose House will stand the last shake and Judgement For which cause we are often plain close and earnest with People to consider that Christ came not to save them in but from their Sins and that they that think to discharge and release themselves of his Yoke and Burden his Cross and Example and secure themselves and Complement Christ with his having done all for them while he has wrought little or nothing in them nor they parted with any thing for the love of him will finally awake in a dreadful surprize at the sound of the last Trumpet and at this sad and irrevokeable Sentence Depart from me ye Workers of Iniquity I know you not Which terrible End may all timely avoid by hearkening to Wisdom's Voice and turning at her Reproof that she may lead them in the Ways of Righteousness and in the midst of the Paths of Judgment that their Souls may come to inherit Substance even durable Riches and Righteousness in the Kingdom of the Father World without end THE QUAKERS PRINCIPLES AND THEIR Adversaries Perversions Quakers Principles I. BEcause in Honour to the Spirit of GOD which gave forth the Scriptures we assert the Holy Spirit to be the First and Great Rule of Christians as that by which GOD is Worshiped Conscience is Convinc'd Sin Detected Duty Manifested Scriptures Unfolded and Explained and consequently a Rule for Believeing and Understanding the Scriptures themselves Tho' at the same time we Reverently Believe the Scriptures by the Divine Authority of that holy SPIRIT which gave them forth and do declare and fully believe them to be what they say of themselves viz. A Declaration of those things most surely believed by the Primitive Christians and that they came by Inspiration holy Men of GOD speaking as they were moved by the holy Ghost and are profitable for Doctrine Reproof Correction Instruction in Righteousness that the Man of GOD perfect and throughly furnished to all good Works Joh. 4. 24. John 16. 8. Ephes 5. 13. Joh. 14. 26. 2. Tim. 3. 16. II. From our great Caution and Tenderness in Expressing our Selves in matters of Faith as particularly about the Trinity in other Terms than those the holy Ghost hath used in Scripture to wit There are Three that bear Record in Heaven the FATHER the WORD and the SPIRIT and these Three are One which we sincerely and reverently believe to be so 1 John 5. 7. III. Because we believe and declare the Necessity of an Inward Principle to Enlighten our Minds and Cure our Hearts of the Maladies that Sin has brought upon us in order to Salvation here and to escape from the Wrath to come Ephes 2. 8. Tit. 2. 11 12. Acts 15. 11. John 1. 9. 1 John 1. 7. IV. Because we say That GOD is Light and CHRIST is Light and that GOD is in CHRIST and that CHRIST by his Light Lighteth every Man that cometh into the World and dwelleth with them that obey him in his Inward and Spiritual Manifestation according to 1 John 1. 5. John 8. 12. and 1. 9. and 1. 1. 10. and 1. 1. 20. V. From our Asserting That CHRIST lighteth Wicked as well as Good Men because he is said to be that True Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World according to John 1. 9. VI. Because we say That this Light of Christ is sufficient to Save and Preserve all from Sin that Walk up to the Discovery and Leadings of it 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. 1 John 1. 7. John 8. 12. Ephes 5. 13. VII When we speak of Christ's being glorified with the Father before the World began oras he is now by his Spirit in the Hearts of his People and that as such he was never visible to Wicked Men John 17. 5. 1 Joh. 3. 6. VIII Because the Tendency of our Ministry and Testimony is to press People to the Guidance of that Inward and Spiritual Appearance of Christ to Men by his Light and Grace in their hearts as that without which there can be no sight sense or sorrow for Sin to Amendment of Life which is absolutely requisite in order to a Just and Saving Application of the Benefit which God intended to Men by the Death and Sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ And because we often press this in opposition to that Sin pleasing-Doctrine of being who by Justified by the Merits of Christ whilst Men live in the Wickedness and Pollutions of this World Eph. 5. 13. Tit. 2. 11. 2 Thes 2. 13. 1 Pet. 1. 2. 1 Cor. 2. 11. Rom. 8. 9 14. Tit. 3. 3. to vers 9. 2 Cor. 4. 6. IX From our Denying a Ridgid Satisfaction as that GOD could not possibly save Men any other way than by Condemning and Punishing his Beloved Son in whom he was well-pleased thereby making Christ the Cause and not the Effect of the Father's Love for the Sins of the World And because we cannot believe he hath so satisfied his Father for Sins past present and to come as to look upon Man to be holy in Christ whilst unholy in himself or to be in Christ while he is not a New Creature the Dangerous Security too many are under 1 Joh. 4. 9 10. John 3 16 17. 1 John 3. 8. John 3. 3. Mat. 7. 21. 2 Cor. 5. 17. Gal. 6. 15. X. Because we say Men cannot be Justified by what Christ has done or suffered for them whilst condemned by his Light in themselves or forgiven in his Blood whilst disobedient to his Spirit and that to compleat Justification we are to feel an Inward Acceptance with GOD through the Sanctification of the Spirit of his Son as that without which Remission

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

times that are sanctified who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. 1. Mark that § 4. In short Justification consists of two parts or hath a two-fold Consideration viz. Justification from the Guilt of Sin and Justification from the Power and Pollution of Sin and in this Sence Justification gives Man a full and clear Acceptance before God For want of this latter part it is that so many Souls Religiously inclin'd are often under Doubts Scruples and Despondencies notwithstanding all that their Teachers tell them of the Extent and Efficacy of the first part of Justification And it is too general an Unhappiness among the Professors of Christianity that they are apt to cloak their own Active and Passive Disobedience with the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ The first part of Justification we do reverently and humbly acknowledge is only for the sake of the Death and Sufferings of Christ nothing we can do though by the Operation of the Holy Spirit being able to Cancel Old Debts or wipe out Old Scores It is the Power and Efficacy of that Propitiatory Offering upon Faith and Repentance that justifies us from the Sins that are past and it is the Power of Christ's Spirit in our Hearts that purifies and makes us acceptable before God For till the Heart of Man is purged from Sin God will never accept of it He Reproves Rebukes and Condemns those that entertain Sin there and therefore such cannot be said to be in a Justified State Condemnation and Justification being Contraries So that they that hold themselves in a Justified State by the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ while they are not Actively and Passively Obedient to the Spirit of Christ Jusus are under a strong and dangerous Delusion and for crying out against this Sin-pleasing Imagination not to say Doctrine we are Staged and Reproached as Denicrs and Despisers of the Death and Sufferings of our Lord Jesus Christ But be it known to such they add to Christ's Sufferings and Crucifie to themselves afresh the Son of God and trample the Blood of the Covenant under their Feet that walk unholily under a Profession of Justification for God will not acquit the Guilty nor Justifie the Disobedient and Unfaithful Such deceive themselves and at the Great and Final Judgment their Sentence will not be Come ye Blessed because it cannot be said to them Well done Good and Faithful for they cannot be so esteemed that live and die in a Reproveable and Condemnable State but Go ye Cursed c. § 5. Wherefore O my Reader Rest not thy self wholly satisfied with what Christ has done for thee in his Blessed Person without Thee but press to know his Power and Kingdom within thee that the strong Man that has too long kept thy House may be bound and his Goods spoiled his Works destroyed and Sin ended according to the 1 John 3. 7. For which end says that Beloved Disciple Christ was manifested that all things may become New New Heavens and New Earth in which Righteousness dwells Thus thou wilt come to glorifie God in thy Body and in thy Spirit which are his and live to him and not to thy self Thy Love Joy Worship and Obedience thy Life Conversation and Practice thy Study Meditation and Devotion will be Spiritual For the Father and the Son will make their abode with thee and Christ will manifest himself to thee for the Secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him And an holy Unction or Anointing have all those which leads them into all truth and they need not the Teachings of Men They are better Taught being Instructed by the Divine Oracle no bare Hear-say or Traditional Christians but fresh and living Witnesses Those that have seen with their own Eyes and heard with their own Ears and have handled with their own Hands the Word of Life in the divers Operations of it to their Souls Salvation In this they Meet in this they Preach and in this they Pray and Praise Behold the New Covenant fulfilled the Church and Worship of Christ the Great Anointed of God and the Great Anointing of God in his Holy High Priesthood and Offices in his Church CHAP. IX Sect. 1. A Confession to Christ and his Work both in Doing and Suffering Sect. 2. That ought not to make void our Belief and Testimony of his Inward and Spiritual Appearance in the Soul Sect. 3. What our Testimony is in the latter respect That 't is impossible to be saved by Christ Without us while we reject his Work and Power Within us Sect. 4. The Dispensation of Grace in its Nature and Extent Sect. 5. A further Acknowledgment to the Death and Sufferings of Christ Sect. 6. The Conclusion shewing our Adversaries Unreasonableness § 1. AND lest any should say we are Equivocal in our Expressions and Allegorize away Christ's Appearance in the Flesh meaning only thereby our own Flesh and that as often as we mention him we mean only a Mystery or a Mystical Sense of him be it as to his Coming Birth Miracles Sufferings Death Resurection Ascension Mediation and Judgment I would yet add to preserve the well-disposed from being stagger'd by such Suggestions and to inform and reclaim such as are under the Power and Prejudice of them That we do we Bless God Religiously Believe and Confess to the Glory of God the Father and the Honour of his Dear and Beloved Son that Jesus Christ took our Nature upon him and was like unto us in all things Sin excepted That he was Born of the Virgin Mary and Suffered under Pontius Pilate the Roman Governour Crucified Dead and Buried in the Sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea Rose again the Third Day and Ascended into Heaven and sits on the Right Hand of God in the Power and Majesty of his Father who will one Day Judge the World by him even that Blessed Man CHRIST JESUS according to their Works § 2. But because we so Believe must we not Believe what Christ said He that is with you shall be in you John 14. I in them and they in me c. Chap. 17. When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me c. Gal. 1. The Mystery hid from Ages is Christ in the Gentiles the hope of Glory Col. 1. Unless Christ be in you ye are Reprobates 2 Cor. 13. Or must we be industriously represented Deniers of Christ's Coming in the Flesh and the Holy Ends of it in all the Parts and Branches of his Doing and Suffering because we Believe and press the Necessity of Believing Receiving and Obeying his Inward and Spiritual Appearance and Manifestation of himself through his Light Grace and Spirit in the Hearts and Consciences of Men and Women to Reprove Convict Convert and Change them This we esteem hard and unrighteous Measure nor would our warm and sharp Adversaries be so dealt with by others But to do as they would be done to is too often no part of their Practice whatever