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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48222	A Letter to Mr. Robert Bridgman, George Keith's trophy, in answer to his reasons for leaving the Quaqers [sic]		1700 (1700)	Wing L1717; ESTC R41469	8,845	18

both Quick and Dead The Doctrines relating hereto and Faith wrought by the Operation of the Holy Ghost are you say the Essential and Fundamental Principles of the Christian Religion without which we cannot be saved in this or the World to come Sir I have no great mind to Animadvert on your Essentials and Fandamentals tho' I think there is something in it that makes your Reasons to taste of the Cask more than every Body is aware of But I am willing the Quakers shall answer you and if therein they say for Substance as you say you are obliged by the Rules of good Manners not only to beg Their Pardon but your Reader 's Pardon also THE first in order is the Trinity and doubtless W. P. is the great Ranter on that Subject for whatever other Quakers have done or said in that ●ase Mr. Penn has in his Sandy Foundation out done ●●em all You cannot be Ignorant what Work and what 〈◊〉 Noise that Book and his being put in the Tower there●●●e made in the World for and because of which … n he and the rest of the Quakers have had work enough ●ver since to defend it against those that have taken advantage therein But pray Sir what is this Doctrine of the Trinity Is it that there is that is to say 't is not a Fiction but a Reality there is a God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost and yet these Three viz. Father Son and Holy Ghost are not Three but One God If the Quakers do not believe this they are very Hypocritical I must confess when even Mr. Penn himself saith in the Book above-quoted p. 26. Mistake me not we have never disowned a Father Word and Spirit which are One But what is it then Mr. Penn you disown He Answers Mens Inventions for first Their Trinity which is one Person of the Father another Person of the Son and another Person of the Holy Ghost 1st Has no Foundation in Scripture saith he Sir if it hath you ought to produce the Chapter and Verse and then if the Quakers disbelieve it you may Reproach them with it but till then you know we are not obliged to believe it as so exprest and Mr. Penn is in the right of it who saith It is but Mens Inventions though the Doctrine of Father Son and Holy Ghost being One not Three Gods or Corporeal Subsistences they say they own and you have not given any Demonstration to the contrary 2d Reason saith he is its Original viz. Three distinct Persons and but one God was 300 Years after Christianity was in the World but the Doctrine of Father Son and Holy Ghost was not 300 Years nor days after Christianity was in the World His 3d. Reason was It cost much Blood in the Council of Sirmium Anno 355. It was decreed That because 〈◊〉 Scriptures of God make no mention thereof the Controv●●●● about it should cease A happy and wise Discussion His 4th Reason was It occasions Idolatry witness P … Images c. which must be according to the Doctrine of T●●●● distinct Persons One Two Three each differing one from the other and doubtless is but too true I am therefore o● Dr. Burnet's Mind That the Word Person is too Gross and only used to supply a Defect and ought to be used no longer than the Brazen Serpent was It were needless to say more since every Body knows the Quakers Quarrel not with the Doctrine but the Terms of expressing it which Terms are not to be found in the sacred Text and therefore not they but we are to be blamed for pretending the Text to be the Mind of God and yet adding to it when they keep to it from which Sir it is evident your first Article against them if not designed has made very much for them since they have in one of their imprimated Prints these very words We acknowledge its every true Christian's Duty to believe in God the Father Almighty and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord and in the Holy Spirit which are One God The 2d of The Incarnation of the Son of God c. Sir I hardly understand you in this Article would you make us believe that the Quakers do not believe Christ's Incarnation because you say you and your Wife c. did not believe it Doubtless as you deceived your selves so you did many others oven of your then Communion who thought you had been better instructed for if you read the Quakers Books you cannot be ignorant of their Notions concerning Christ's Incarnation viz. That he took not on him the Nature of Angels but the Nature of Man and was made Man viz. was very Man as well as very God For proof hereof see your Master Keith in the first place his Immediate Revelation his Way cast up his Way to the City of God which were all printed whilst he was in Communion with them ●nd by their Approbation which shews they did believe ●●e Doctrine so as their Mouth had exprest Besides Mr. ●eith you know Mr. Barclay has as amply exprest himself on that Subject as Mr. Keith and that the Society of Quakers has approved of what he has declared is evident since they have at their publick Charge printed his Works in Folio But if you should object This is only out of Scotland I will bring the matter nearer home first then their great Apostle against whom you say as much as any viz. G. F. That he did believe the Incarnation of Christ in the Year 1644. is evident when the Question was ask'd Why Christ cry'd out upon the Cross My God my God c. G. F. Answers That it was because at that time the Sins of all Mankind was upon him with which he was wounded and the weight of their Iniquities and Transgressions were upon him which he was to bear and to be an Offering for them as he was Man but died not as he was God Journal Fol. 4. being ask'd who was Christ's Father and Mother he answers Mary was his Mother Joseph was his supposed Father but that he was the Son of God ibid. And also in 1648. from these words Jour p. 22. For I saw that Christ had died for all Men and was a Propitiation c. From which nothing can be more clear than this that he that died must be first alive but Christ as God could not Die but Christ as Man or the Word made Flesh did Die and G. F. saith He saw his so dying was for all Men. His Humanity then is here asserted and Incarnation as plain and clear as the Sun at Noon-day But because I will Rivet it you have here in the same Page and following Words his Divinity as amply proved in these words viz. And had enlightned all Men and Women with his divine and saving Light So here then the first Preacher amongst the Quakers was found in the Christian Faith both with respect to the Incarnation Humanity and Divinity of