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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35136	Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7217; ESTC R204876	16,180	24

Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ This one spiritual Baptism into the Name of Jesus Christ is that which saves the Water being but a figure that Christ might be manifest to Israel who had divers Baptisms imposed on them until the time of Reformation but Christ the Substance being come the Shadows fly away And yet where ever any are commanded now by the same Spirit that commanded the Believers to be Baptized in the days past either for the furtherance of the Gospel or tryal of their Faith we judge them not But this obedience is very rare to be found and we could heartily desire that all would consider seriously whether Litteral sayings observed onely by outward reading hearing by the ear or inward impulses upon the heart by the Divine power are the motives unto obediences in this kind And if honesty and uprightness of heart may be heard we believe and know the many dead souls every where notwithstanding their Baptisms will be as so many witnesses against them by their groveling upon the earth as so many slain and killed men by the Letter while the Spirit 's quickenings have not been known in the true Baptism into death For we find by daily experiences that most men and women live like Pharaoh's lean kine onely to eat up the fat and to envy those that are not so lean-soul'd as themselves We believe also that as there is one true saving Baptism so is there one Bread or Body of Christ which all the Saints do feed upon and though they be many as to persons yet their Bread is but one and they all in it but one Bread And this we believe is the flesh that came down from heaven Joh. 6. 33. Though the outward Jews now as then murmur at him because he said I am the Bread which came down from heaven vers 41 42. But Christ vers 45. to stop their murmuring tells them that the knowledge of this mystery was only revealed unto them whom God and not man teacheth and no more than are taught of God can set seal and subscribe unto this truth in Jesus though we believe also that Jesus did take outward Bread and brake it and gave it to the Disciples as the Scripture saith and this was a figure of his Body that was to be pierced and broken upon the Tree and a shew to shew forth his death until he came And we believe he did arise again and appear unto his Disciples And all that believed were together and had all things common c. And they continuing daily with one accord in the Temple breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart praising God and having favour with all the People Act. 2. 44 45 46. 47. And we believe that the Apostle in 1 Cor. 11. 20. saith true where he saith When ye come together therefore in one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper And all that he speaks in that Chapter is not to perpetuate that outward breaking of Bread otherwise than as the Believers did that were filled with the Holy Ghost in singleness of Heart as before is said and yet we judge not those who break outward Bread and drink outward Wine being commanded so to do and put in remembrance thereby of the body and blood of Jesus Christ by the remembrancer the spirit of truth which is appointed by the Father to lead into all truth But to do it by imitation or tradition only as most do it if not all at this day we know it is not an offering unto God in righteousness neither do we believe this to be the communion of the body and blood of Christ and yet the eating of the flesh and drinking of the blood of Christ we believe man must know and witnesse or he hath no life in him Joh. 6. 53 54 55. And we believe that many are striving now in their Spirits as the Jews did vers 52. saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat And not onely the Jews but many of his disciples said This is an hard saying who can bear it vers 60. and at vers 63. he tells them It is the Spirit that quickens the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are Life and he that hears and understands these words that are Spirit and Life will not be offended at what I have spoken of the flesh and blood of Christ By the same Spirit and Grace we believe that Prayer is an Ordinance of God when performed by his Spirit in its words and not those which man's wisdom teacheth or without words by sighs and groans which cannot be uttered and these so often as the spirit it self pleaseth But the Form without the Spirit whether it be by words of other mens framing or words of a man 's own spirit according to his will time and manner this is not the Prayer that prevails with God And we believe there is none so weak and infirm but this Spirit profers its help at some time or other though man regardeth it not And the more man's mind is gathered within from all visibles the more he comes to be sensible of the movings and stirrings of this Spirit in its secret cryes to God answerable to the wants of that man or woman in whom it moves and cryes And by due watching thereunto we believe and know the Spirit of prayer and of adoption that cries unto God comes to be discerned and distinguished from a man 's own spirit and will We believe by the same gift of Grace that there are several Ministrations and several Operations according to 1 Cor. 12. and all by the same Spirit as before the Law and after the Law by Moses and after by John the Baptist and Christ and his Apostles and in all these the Ministration had acceptance with God through the management of the Spirit and its rejection and dislike of God for the want thereof And by this Spirit were the Scriptures given forth and did the holy men of God Speak Prophecy Preach and Pray as they were moved and for want of it the Letter did and doth kill And for the further appearance and pouring out of this Spirit answerable unto the work and service that God had for them to do they were to wait as Christ commanded his Disciples to do at Jerusalem to receive the Promise of the Father For by this Spirit he that speaks speaks as the Oracle of God And therefore as it was the practice of the People of God in old time to wait for the moving and stirring of this Spirit that they might speak as it gave them utterance in the evidence and demonstration thereof so do this People called Quakers now and according to its moving in their hearts they minister according to the signification of the Spirit whereby they understand both what and when to speak and when to be silent as also

who they are that minister and speak in their own wills above the Cross of Christ which the Apostle was careful always to be in subjection to lest he should make it void by speaking the words which man's wisdom teacheth and therefore as the Saints did so we do believe and therefore we speak and such Preaching and Speaking in faith as well as Praying in faith is acceptable unto God as his Worship and not otherwise And we further believe by the same spirit That the sum of all Religion according to truth and the signification of the word Religion is Man not at liberty in his will but bound again unto God by his having given to him by the light of Christ within the true sight and knowledge of himself as in himself as lost and undone for ever and from this sight a true sence to arise upon and remain with him from whence spring unutterable groans and crys unto God under the weight of the burden and wretchedness by reason of the body of sin and death and then when there was none to help or pitty in this state then is Mercy shewed in Christ the Arm of God which is revealed as an help neither seen nor known where how or when to come at it or meet with it And this begets in the heart of that man and woman in and unto whom it is thus revealed thanks and praises unto God for this gift and revelation of his Son in this needful time whom the soul sees to be the gift of eternal Love And we believe and know upon this love and faithfulness of God is founded built and established the everlasting Covenant whereby not onely all men may be saved for its ability but some shall be saved because of its prevalency which is not like to the Covenant which he made with our Fathers And although all mankind is not saved yet it is not because either of insufficiency in this Covenant or because of the weakness of the grace that appeares in and unto all men but because of man's will loving death and choosing his own delusions whereby his destruction is of himself and God clear of his blood in the free tender of his grace gift and striving of his Spirit within him For we know assuredly according to the Scriptures of Truth and experience of all souls that ever were truly converted to God that though by Grace man is saved not of himself but by the free gift yet as the old world did and those rebellious Jews spoken of Acts 7. who as did their Fathers so did they alwayes resist the holy Ghost so do men now And yet in the tender of this grace and striving of his Spirit the Lord is a God so hiding himself in the management of this striving and ministration of his spirit as if it wholly depended upon man's choice and consenting that man's will as to him is as it were free in rejecting or accepting Life and death being set before him whereby in the wisdom of God the propensity of his Nature as it came out of the hands of his Maker hath an advantage by this dealing of God to put forth it self so that man is as free in the choice as he is in the refusal of the tender of mercy and help and that with an equal indifferency as it appears to him in this state notwithstanding afterwards in the further growth in this grace and knowledge of Christ he sees clearly and convincingly that the Grace that wrought hiddenly from his sight and knowledge in the first working tender and ministration of God towards him gained his consent through its own prevalency in the Love of God by which sight and sence self comes to be abhorred and the free Love so admired that he knows from first to last all was of Grace and that free that self is not able to challenge any thing as due from what it had done but all of gift and yet as before with such an equal indifferency on man's account so that God may and will appear to be just both in condemning and saving and the Justifier freely of all that believe in Jesus the Light of the World Therefore let all take heed how they dislike this Ministration of God and striving of his Spirit in their hearts and consciences under colour and pretence of its insufficiency and therfore they will not come to him because his drawings and strivings are not so strong as they would have them to be looking for such an overpowering and irresistiblness as they are not able to withstand and gainsay lest such perish through a wilful neglect for want of stretching out their hand when the Lord holds out his and so they perish in the ditch with a vain expectation of further power or cry in their mouths Lord have mercy on us and so with the sluggard while they cry yet a little more slumber and folding of the hands to sleep their Garden is overgrown with weeds and their backs clothed with rags and they beg in harvest whilst others that have sown in tears not fainting do in due time reap in joy and not despising the crums that fell from the table nor the day of small things witness the presence of their Beloved come down into his Garden and walking among the Lillies Let these things be truly considered pondred and weighed in the true ballance of Light and Righteousness lest any soul perish through the false weight and measure so shall my soul rejoyce that any have escaped the Net of the Fowler through the discovery of the true Light and God have all the glory unto whom alone it belongs and man ashamed confounded his mouth stopped and he laid in the dust for ever and then shall my end be answered in writing these things THE END Concerning Perswasions in Matters of Religion THere is the Natural man and the Spiritual man and there are the Perswasions of each in and about matters of Religion There is the Perswasion of Reason and the Perswasion of Faith The Perswasion of Reason is that belief which man receives into his mind or heart from the exercise of the Reasoning Faculty and this Perswasion in Matters of Religion is but Man's Opinion or Judgement which how certain or infallible soever it appear to him yet may be shaken by a demonstration or evidence of an higher kind and nature The Perswasion of Faith is that Belief which the New-Creature receives into the renewed mind from the Evidence and Demonstration of the Spirit which openeth and manifesteth the things of the Spirit unto that mind which is begotten and renewed by it And this Perswasion is certain and infallible however it may be struck at and battered by the reasonings of the wise earthly part even in that very man whose heart is thus perswaded by the Light of the Spirit of God concerning the things of God's Kingdom Now the lowest Perswasion of Faith is higher and of a more noble nature than the highest Perswasion of