of a Saviour to effect what after follows on the behalf of distressed mankind If the Father did appoint the Son than 't was not voluntary or an Act springing from his own arbitrium for that 's the strict and true signification of it but the Fathers so that by consequence Christ was not the cause but the effect of Gods love to man which contradicts the ground of that satisfaction many have conceived themselves secure by and interessed in But because this Doctrine has been much controverted and that the World of called Christians are bearing hard hereupon according to their variety of apprehensions as the onely support I shall a little query in the matter leaving it to this Guide to direct unto the end of what I ask for barely to lay down a Doctrine without the least proof is so irrational as I know none but would be rather forward to reject it though in measure true because void of a Reason to maintain it He sayes That Christ took upon him our sins and has given himself a Sacrifice or in other terms has satisfied the justice of the Father displeased with man Query 1. Whether he satisfied as God or man If as God Because no meer Creature can Then Q. 2. Whether this does not split the Unity of the Godhead which sayes this Guide is the same in Father and Son and make a duality in Natures as well as in Persons since the one is the Appointer the other the Appointed the one Designer the other Designed the one Satisfier the other Satisfied Q. 3. Whether since the Godhead is but one pure Act it 's not to say the Father sent the Son the Son the Father the Godhead the Godhead Q. 4. Whether the conception of the appointment preceeded not the 〈◊〉 of obedience in the appointed Q. 5. Whether Relatives are predicable of a Diety having their Primitives which supposes priority in time as well as Nature Or how commanding and obeying Acts can be soberly affirmed of the Divine Being Q. 6. Whether it is harmonious with reason or according to Scripture warrantable to say That Christ as God satisfied his Father Since 't is to make God resolved to have satisfaction somewhere and none being of ability that the same Godhead should pay it that his Mercy should pay it his Justice that one Attribute so called should deny an Acquittance till to ther had solv'd the Debt God the Father standing off in high displeasure and on his tearms and the same Godhead in the Son designed to satisfie Q. 7. Whether if there be not distinct properties and attributes in the Father and Son but are one pure Being and Godhead concurring in the Conception Progression and Perfection of all Acts it is less reasonable and necessary that the Justice of the Son should have an infinite satisfaction paid it than the same attribute in the Father If as Man Q. 8. Whether if the Justice of God be infinite his satisfaction ought not to bear a proportion therewith Q. 9. Whether Christ Jesus as Man could offer up an infinite Sacrifice to satisfie the infinite displeasure of his Father paying all due respect to his very great afflictions which were sustained by him in his fulfilling his Fathers Will and really were towards the Salvation of mankind as a pleasant offering If as God and Man Q. 10. Whether if two mediums be singly inconsistent with the Nature of the end for which they were propounded the conjunction of them does not rather augment than lessen the difficulty of atchieving it Q. 11. Whether 't is not to depaint the merciful God most revengful that not being able to have his satisfaction where 't was owing would take it where it was not due Q. 12. Whether it were not more suitable to Truth and Scripture Record to avoid all dark conceits Schoolmens quiddities and vain janglings and to believe That God was and is in Christ who is in us except we be Reprobates reconciling the World or men unto himself by removing that unrighteous and self-exalted nature which ruled as God in their hearts and by his Glorious Light giving them to know the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ Then must not Reader from my querying thus conclude We do deny as he hath falsly charged us those Glorious Three which bear record in Heaven the Father Word and Spirit neither the Infinity Eternity and Divinity of Jesus Christ for that we know he is the Mighty God nor what the Father sent his Son to do on the behalf of lost man declaring to the whole World We know no other Name by which Atonement Salvation and Plenteous Redemption comes but by his Name are according to our measures made sensible of its mighty Power but rather to let thee see how unsatisfactorily he has imposed Religion on the World and how exceeding open he layes his Principles to the objection of every reasonable Inquirer for whilst he undertakes to dress up a Religion that shall excel all others and boldly recommends it to such who are resolved to be of some Religion as if there did accompany it such undenyable evidence that though it might effect little upon the loose and dissolute Atheist to fix his moving mind yet questions not the good success it might have upon the Religiously inclined he in reality has not brought a Proof or solid Argument as encouragement for any to embrace them Sect. 15. His last Cardinal Doctrine I am come to after which it had been more proper some may think to have inserted the preceeding Caution but since this may not give so much occasion to such as watch for opportunities to raise their misty suspicions and that it might be too remote from those passages for the better explanation of which it purposely was mentioned I have the rather placed it here and now for the examination of this his last Fundamental That our Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ having all power in Heaven and in Earth given to him hath made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and caused it to be proclaimed to the World wherein he promises Pardon and Salvation to all that shall sincerely accept him for their Saviour He boldly calls him his Redeemer not observing how unsutable his Life and Doctrine is with the Redeemed of the Lord for whosoever is redeemed by Christ is perfectly so inasmuch as all his Works are perfect but as this Guide's conversation manifests the contrary by his very great miscarriages so does his Book for Paul testifies to all That Jesus Christ was sent to redeem not onely from iniquity which might admit of a distinction by froward and unclean Spirits but all iniquity therefore this person has spoke too largely in calling the pure Jesus his Redeemer for such imperfect works would very much disgrace their Author nor is there any thing so much stumbles Infidels and brings a reproach upon the Christian Religion or dishonour to the Holy God is Priests and People writing talking and fighting hard
Angels that Christ died for the Sins of the World and gave his Life a Ransom Perfection from sin they hold attainable because he that 's born of God sins not and that nothing which is unclean can enter the Kingdom of God no Crown without victory the little Leaven leavens the whole lump the strong man must be cast out Paul prayes they might be sanctified Wholly Be ye perfect as God is perfect be perfect be of good comfort unto a perfect man as many as be perfect that the Man of God may be perfect The God of peace make you perfect in EVERY good Work the God of all Grace make you perfect let us cleanse our selves from ALL filthiness of flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God leaving those things behind let us go on unto perfection and this will we do if God permit If perfection were unattainable it would be strange that the Scriptures should speak of such a state and very preposterous that Paul Peter c. should so sollicite and pray for the antient Saints that they might come thither even to the spirits of just men made perfect nay he positively avouches to have arrived there at the Heavenly Jerusalem at the Church of the first Born c. And notwithstanding that this excellent State should never be enjoyed seems to me no less than a giving the Apostles Doctrine the lie and tacitly impeaching them of gross dissimulation and contradiction But Reader 't is not onely my Opinion that Perfection is attainable for if thou pleasest to remember the many passages of his Discourse already past my observation as well as to remark the following Chapter of his contradictions thou certainly will find Perfection an Article of this Guides Creed without the least violation to his matter Sect. 6. They deny any necessity of special Grace of the Spirit to Conversion and Sanctification saying The Light within is sufficient hereunto and scoff at them that pray for more His malice and his lies run parallel Are there amongst the Sons of men any that so contend for that Grace which brings Salvation and so strongly plead as well with sufferings as otherwise the absolute necessity of Faith therein subjection thereto and sanctification thereby to this blind professing World And for his distinction between the Light and Grace Reader if thou dost well observe the Apostle Paul's description of their properties and effects I question not but thou wilt soon condemn this Guide for ignorant and very inobservant of the Scriptures For he to the Ephesians writes That whatsoever makes manifest is light and bids them thereby to walk circumspectly So that the Apostle sets it as the distinguisher between good and evil as a Guide or Leader And thus was Jesus Christ the fulness of Light nominated by the Prophet A Light unto the Gentiles a Leader unto the People for Salvation unto the ends of the Earth who by the Evangelist is said to have enlightened every man and by the Prophet 't is determined as well as by the same John in his Revelation That the Nations of them which are saved must walk in that Light and how it can be different from that Grace whose properties are the same in teaching to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present World cannot be rationally suppos'd for sayes the Apostle John If ye walk in the Light as God is in the Light ye shall be cleansed from all sin which Paul expresses thus If ye walk in the Spirit ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh and sayes Christ I am the Light of the World he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the Light of Life It must be therefore evident to every common understanding that this so much blasphem'd Light Spirit and Grace spoken of leading to the same condition and bringing to the same end are one in essence and virtue though diversly denominated according to the variety of its operations and who is 't can be thought a Christian that denies the sufficiency of this Glorious Light which graciously is given of God as a Leader to the Nations and for Salvation to the ends of the Earth And surely had this Guide but ever been acquainted with its pure instructions and walk't therein the benefit that would have certainly accru'd had better taught him the excellency of its Nature and the reverent observance he ought to pay it and not to make a scoff at it as he most wickedly sayes the Quakers do at Grace who generally are known to be no mockers but have been made a laughing-stock by all Perswasions being reviled they bless persecuted they suffer defamed they intreat accounted the off-scouring of all things unto this day and made a spectacle unto the World Angele and Men. Sect. 7. 10. He follows on much at the same rate Sabbaths and Sacraments and all instituted Worship they cast off the great Doctrines of the Resurrection Last Judgment Heaven and Hell they turn into Allegories c. How long wilt thou immagine write and utter lying vanities to bespatter defame and expose to vulgar rage the innocent People and royal Inheritance of the most high God Canst thou expect thy dayes shall terminate in peace and that the Judge of all will not account with thee for all thy slanders yea Clapham be it known unto thee the dreadful God shall recompence it on thy head nor shall thy peevish malice surpassing all I know escape a pledge of Gods displeasure on thee ere thou takest thy farewel of this Earth he will rebuke thy unclean Spirit too full of nasty venom and lies ever to have admittance where nothing enters that defiles or makes a lie It 's not a rage I am in as thou may'st think and willingly wouldst have others to believe God bears me record but the infallible sence I have upon my Spirit of thy deep ensnating hypocrisie to betray if possible others more moderate and faithful into the same wicked yeelding spirit with thy self and also I fear thy immortal enmity to us the innocent People of the Lord provokes to a holy indignation and judgement 's for that unrighteous nature to eternity But that I may not leave the Reader unsatisfi'd as to this last most impudently wicked aspersion know in the name of all true Quakers the Sabbath that is reserv'd for the People of God is so far from being by them rejected or denyed that they admonish all to the exact and punctual observation of it not to think their own thoughts speak their own words nor do their own works for the word Sacraments 't is no where scriptural and till he explains his meaning I am not bound to find him one but for such Worship as is of Scripture-institution and perform'd by the Spirit of God they own and practise disowning as there is good reason all other Institutions The Doctrine of the
not because the Seed of God abideth in him As is the begetter so is the begotten It may be further observ'd that into the Kingdom of which they are called Children or Inhabitants other places will not allow an entrance for any thing that is unclean or makes a lye nor is it congruous with Scripture and common sense the same Temple should hold God and Mamon Christ and Belial or that any can witness a being dead and crucified with Christ whilst living in that which has no share in him And though he would imply a Salvo or Defence for the admission of all sorts to Sacraments so call'd under the notion of the Field's being the Church yet if he well observes it is call'd the World out of which the Church of Christ both as to Doctrine and Conversation was alwayes gathered otherwise those Heathens Turks Jews c whom he would exclude must be members of his Church and whilst he would intrude Tares or the whole rabble of unrighteous persons as members of Christs Church he has forgot the Testimony born by the Apostles concerning that spotless blamless and perfect Body of which Christ Jesus was the Head And if he would from Christs words of letting them alone cover his practice of admitting all as being ignorant who is a Believer since none knows but in plucking up the Tares he may pluck up the Wheat also for this Guide's a Latitudinarian what need his whole discourse for a particular constitution he might I am sure a let that alone as knowing it would be of little force yet may he better understand the passage if he please of Persecution for they were known to be Tares else how could the servant say Sir didst not thou sow good Seed in thy Field from whence then hath it Tares if he had not rightly discerned their nature and that the Wheat was to hold no communication in any religious sort with them nor were they to express severity or force but leaving them in supernatural cases to the determination and punishment of the great Judge live a self-denying example to the world In this sense Imperfection is granted I mean to the carnal and unregenerate but to the Redeemed of God and Children of the Kingdom Perfection I am now come to the examination of the essentials of his so much recommended Choice Sect. 12. His first Article is concerning the nature of God and what of him is to be believed by those that would be happy his words are these That there is one God of an infinit perfect and spiritual nature subsisting in three most glorious persons the Father Son and Holy-Ghost who is the Maker Preserver and Governour of all things and intends his own Glory in all his Works That the greatest concernment of reasonable creatures is to know and acknowledge this God fear love adore and glorifie him and their chiefest felicity stands in his love and favour in fullest conformity to his Image and in no earthly good separate from him Taking the former part of his Definition for granted to wit the perfection infinity and spirituality of his Nature how very unsuitable herewith is the Religion and practice of this Guide first in denying that Revelation by which only a knowledge of this glorious and invisible Deity can be obtained which was the Testimony Christ bore concerning him that no man knew the Father but the Son and him to whom the Son revealed him so that if such Revelation as gives to behold the Father see his shape and contemplate the excellency of his Nature be wholly rejected by this Guide methinks it is either arrogancy to intrude into things he doth not know or folly to tell a tale received from other people for infallible truth without a demonstration in himself Next If there be no other way to have communion with this invisible God that thereby the Conformity he talks of may be known for being a Spirit it 's preposterous to imagine a knowledge of him obtainable by other mediums than what are aedequate to his Divine Nature but by this Revelation of Himself through his Son Christ in us except we are Reprobates it will necessarily follow that he must either deny Christ's Doctrine or else confess himself ignorant of what he writes and since the God he would advise all to know fear and love is that perfect Spirit I fain would know what Worship can be termed suitable thereunto but the internal and spiritual one which is altogether void of those Ceremonies Formalities Will-performances and perishing Observations once used as condescending signs to the weakness of some seasons which at this day fills up the Sacrifices and in which stands the Religion of those called Christians through the World whose ignorance of God's once dispensing with beggarly elements for their sakes whose understandings were vailed and too weak-sighted to behold at first the glorious Light has put many upon the imitation of past generations though void of their spirit and not answering the end for which they were then practised vainly conceiting them an offering acceptable to the eternal Spirit when it were as well-pleasing to present a dogg's neck as anciently was said What shall I hence conclude but as the Almighty God is a Spirit so cannot he otherwise be known or served and since he has required homage from his creatures and yet 's so purely just as to but expect what he has impow'red them to do how absolutely necessary is it that all Worship Godward should stand in the ability given of him thereunto and reasonable to believe that the occasion of all the Apostacy Darkness Inventions and whole variety of Forms and Constitutions of Religion has been from the neglect of that pure spiritual capacity once given of God to act and order them in all things that did concern their duty both to God and man As for his strange distinction of the Deity which he inforces on the faith of all that value their eternal welfare I cannot find one Scripture that will bear him out and if they had been of so much credit with this Guide as to have been by them led into their undeniable form of sound words he would not have intruded Tradition for Scripture to the creed of any but rather have inserted the Text or phrase it self whose Authority might have commanded an assent And it had more become him to give the world a Reason for his requiring a submission to and credence of his Doctrine rather than barely to draw up so many Articles and thus impiously to call on all for a subscription as they would be saved especially since he cannot but know how strongly these very points have been debated in ancient Councils and not less controverted by modern persons of Reputation and Learning Some owning one Eternal God void of all personal relations as Arrius with many Prelates and some Emperors in former Centuries F. Socinus L. Socinus Crellius Slictingius c. of later dayes
for Christ as Redeemer whilst every eye finds them as polluted and deeply engaged in dishonest and immoral practices as those against whom they contend And truly repenting of their sins shall rest on his death and merits alone for life and love him above all things and sincerely obey his Gospel Laws and Commandments and shall persevere in this duty to the end I hope by this time Reader thou art sufficiently convinc'd this Guide is leading thee to a state of perfection notwithstanding he would make thee believe it's unattainable in this life for he concludes we ought to love God above all and is it possible for any mind but that which walks with God is born again and entirely translated from the Kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Gods marvellous Light to be so entirely divorc'd from all and espoused to God as to love him above all and sincerely which implies no less than the strongest activity of an upright Soul obey his Gospel Laws and Commandments and persevere which excludes all commission or omission to the contrary In short if Christs Law be imperfect then must its Author be so too but he is purely perfect so must his Work or Law And if the Law be perfect then is the observer also perfect but the Law and Gospel is prov'd undeniably perfect therefore must the observer also And lest this Guide should offer to retort that none can observe it let him answer for me who sayes We ought not only to observe and obey it but with sincerity and perseverance in fulfilling the commands of it to the end Finis coronat opus The end'd perfection He follows on to this effect And after he shall have sent his Holy Spirit to work Faith and Conversion in his Elect he will certainly come again and by his mighty Power raise the dead and convene both quick and dead before his Judgment and then such as obey his Gospel he will adjudge to eternal Glory but Unbelievers to eternal Torments He has here jumbled many things of moment up together scraps pickt out of more ample discourses Succirctness is commendable but not in his abrupt way cramming and stifling matters for want of room to open and explain themselves to the convincement of the understanding and whilst he loudly does exclaim against the Quakers for slighting the Scriptures who is there found more guilty than himself that though his Book treats of nothing less than such a Religion as he assures all must imbrace that would be saved 't is rare he cites one passage of them for a confirmation of his very Fundamentals He tells us of the necessity of believing God will send his holy Spirit as being otherwise void of Faith and Conversion and yet denies the very office of the Spirit which is to reveal the Mysteries of God and to convert from faln Adams state to that glorious second Adam's which never fell And if he did believe in that Eternal Power which raises from the dead in trespasses it would be to him according to his faith for God is faithful that hath promised but being wholly ignorant of Christ Jesus the Power no wonder if he never knew the Resurrection and the Life And how absurd it is for one to draw a representation of a thing he never saw or venture to challenge an assent to what he ignorantly has fancied to himself without one Argument to induce or so much as an Observation to explain the obscurity of his Doctrine I leave the sober Reader to determine Thus having endeavoured an enervation of his four Fundamentals I shall hasten to the examining the force of his Accusations against my Friends but in my way thither I shall a little turn my eye upon some passages of lesser moment Sect. 16. His sixth Chapter mainly intends the recommending to our consideration some religious matters of a secondary nature as a preparative to Conformity for though he seems to express a tenderness towards doubting Consciences yet if we follow him through his 8th and 9th Chapters it will evidently appear to be no other than a more facile and probable way to insinuate the same conforming spirit to the minds of others he stands branded with himself and by his plea for a Conformity as Christian he palliates his own wicked temporizing and would so far prevail on others that none may be left to accuse him of Inconstancy And if he were the man he pretends himself to be what needs he busie himself in scribling who has tenderness enough he sayes to overlook Non-conformity and that allows the Nonconforming-Churches to be Christian Doth he afford the Church of England more time was he would not have acknowledged her so much Sect. 17. His 7th Chapter is an application of his preceding discourse bringing all Wayes amongst the Christians so called of these Nations under two either such an establishment as hath the sanction of the Law to warrant and protect it or those perswasions as are estoused by private men Reader thou mayst be sure he is not of the last the first wears the Cap of Maintenance but he distinguishes amongst those many wayes he fathers on private spirits some he endites of holding principles that overturn the very Foundation of Christian Religion whilst he more candidly dismisses others with the approbation of sound Fundamentals although he layes it as a home charge that they should not neglect the using such means as might better inform their Schismatical Judgements concerning the Church of Englands constitution Those great Impostors or dangerous Hereticks whom this Guide esteems it a foolish charity to flatter with the hopes of Salvation are Papists Socinians and Quakers by which he has at once damn'd millions of poor immortal souls however strict serious and sincere in what they knew through many generations whilst if defective they owe it to the idle lying covetous ignorant and murdering spirit and practice of the Priests whose interest it has ever been to inslave and obscure the peoples understandings by their many cursed Inventions and terrifying punishments framing and trimming a Religion with such variety of external Ceremonies as probably best might take and influence the carnal multitude enacting most severe Laws against such as should at any time decry their Fopperies and testifie against their abominable Inventions Letting their Canons play or rather plagne to the destruction of Lives Families and Estates It 's not my business to apologize for Papists I am not of their kin but look upon Rome Pagan to have been much inferiour to the Impieties of Rome called Christian and the latter greatly transcending the former in all sorts of abomination capable to be invented by the wicked one As for the Socinian I know him to have wit and learning enough to encounter a more redoutable Adversary than mine and however he has expos'd himself to the just censures of some his exemplary life and grave deportment I must acknowledge to be very singular and if his cause receive
Authority to declare There is not another Leader by whom Salvation is attainable and in obedience to whom the Nations of them that are saved must walk Although I needs must say this objection of our Ignorance had much better become a person whose abilities surpass this Cantabrigian Sizer's education whose inexpertness in Story Tongues and Opinions might have barr'd him from these uncivil as well as untrue reflections and so much of Literature is to be found amongst the Quakers though it 's not their strength as does and very likely will remain unanswer'd by Scholars of a higher Form than this conceited Guide Sect. 2. 2. His charge of obstinacy we deny nor am I much solicitous to enlarge in our vindication since 't is the sense I know he has of all who withstand a Conformity to that Establishment his Interest leads him to imbrace and bow not with him to the Rising-Sun In this sense we own his Epichite and adjunct of Singular also being indeed most so in sufferings having by all Powers since we were a People separated by the Lord from their Inventions been killed all the day long in Reputation Liberty Estate and sometimes Life but in all other respects our Consciences excepted we are alwayes ready to express complacency and willingness to assist our very enemies Sect. 3. 3. He does accuse us with a total Apostasie from Christianity but if the definition Paul gives of a Christian ought to decide the case then he is one in whom Christ reigns and by the fruits of his Spirit manifests to the world he is redeemed from it and from fulfilling those lusts which once had absolute dominion over him But whether this Guide or the so much calumniated Quakers are fullest of self-denyal most separated from the World or in greatest subjection to that pure Spirit of Grace which teaches to deny all unrighteousness and to live soberly in this present World impartial Reader speak For if the preceeding qualities denote men truly Christian and that a pious diligent and inoffensive Conversation is the most express Character of Christ's Followers I make my appeal to thee and the whole World if there lives among the Sons of men a people less deserving to be called Apostates and consequently any that so visibly carry with them the badg of true and primitive Christianity as they And whereas he sayes we scarce retain any Article of the Christian Faith We do in so many words reject his aspersion being made partakers of that Divine Faith in Jesus which sanctifies and is held in a pure Conscience Sect. 4. 4. His next accusation is That they extol the Light in all men as the only sufficient Rule to walk by to the apparent slighting of Scriptures and Preaching Reader If yet thou art a stranger to this Light he thus explodes and vilifies let me beseech thee once to observe it in thy self and tell me then if it has not that Divine quality to discern betwixt the Precious and the Vile and manifest every Thought Word and Act whether it is well-pleasing or the contrary to the great God If it be criminal to own those Scriptures he falsly sayes we slight the case is chang'd otherwise we all confess that God is Light and that he hath enlightned every man by heeding and obeying the Dictates of which we may be preserv'd in that capacity as the same Scripture sayes shall bring us into the pure Fellowship and that the Blood of Jesus shall cleanse us from all sin Nor do they own a Principle in the Clouds but above all people have demonstrated the power and authority of their Principle by that Redemption it has wrought for them and alteration it has made from that condition which nakedly expos'd their immortal Souls to the snares and entanglements of this Worlds perishing glories to experiment the Blood which cleansed from all iniquity the unspeakable peace of perfect reconciliation with God And for his confident affirming we slight both Scriptures and Preaching I have this to say That as there is not any who discover more respect for them by a conformity of life to what they require so do they both read and as often quote them in Preaching or Declaration as any who profess them for their Rule And Reader that thou mayest the better be informed concerning the esteem we have them in taking but the pains to visit our Assemblies and that shall be a sufficient vindication of our innocency which also may answer him as to the advantage that 's confest the Jew had above the Heathen 5. His fifth reflection is Our openly denying the Doctrine of the Trinity but me thinks it would become him who is reproving others for not paying that respect they ought unto the Scriptures to be a little more exemplary in using their unquestionable phrase and sound expression for I am altogether ignorant of any Scripture that mentions that word Trinity and t is his own Opinion that Fundamentals should not be drawn from dubious and obscure places but rather that the Scriptures were evident and perspicuous as to what was necessary to be believed yet if by Trinity he understands those three Witnesses in Heaven Father Word and Spirit he should better have acquainted himself with what we disown than ignorantly thus to blaze abroad our open denyal of what we most absolutely credit and believe 6. His next slander runs thus The Person of Jesus Christ as to his humane Nature with all his Offices assigned to him by his Father they utterly reject though this is an Arcanum that is kept hard from their Novices Fain would he here insinuate to people by his most invective impostures hard thoughts concerning an inoffensive people whilst in reality they own no other name by which Salvation is obtainable than the Christ of God and all the Offices that ever were assigned him by his Father are by them acknowledged and so remote are they from hiding their sentiments or being jealous of exposing them to all that whosoever will but give himself the time of frequenting their Meetings or perusing their Books will soon perceive how very far this Character is wide of Truth 7. His next report is We call not upon God in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ But Reader that thou mayest not thus be dogmatized upon and better satisfied in thy sober inquiries assure thy self the Quakers never knew an other Name than that of Jesus Christ through which to find acceptance with the Lord nor is it by any other than Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant by whom they expect Redemption and may receive the promise of an eternal Inheritance Sect. 5. He farther sayes They trust not in his death for Pardon and Salvation but in a pretended sinless perfection They are so far from disowning the death and sufferings of Christ that there is not a people in the Earth that so assuredly witnesse and demonstrate a Fellowship therewith confessing before Men and