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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45920	The Instability of the Quakers pretended infallibility		1700 (1700)	Wing I228; ESTC R43277	4,498	1

The Instability of the Quakers pretended Infallibility 〈◊〉 whom is recommended another Broad Sheet entituled A small Reply to a Letter to Mr. Robert Bridgman's pretended Answer to his Reasons 〈◊〉 for leaving the Quakers wherein the Quakers are plainly proved by Quotations taken out of their most celebrated Authors that they are 〈◊〉 not only Ignorant of the Fundamental Principles of the Christian Religion but obstinately to deny them A Short Dialogue between W. Penn and G. Whitehead W. Penn. Brother Whitehead I desire thy Assistance in this weighty Occasion thou know'st if I build again those things that are quoted on the Right side which I have by my several Books quoted on the left side destroyed then shall I make my self a Transgressor O do'st not thou behold how our Infallibility lies at stake I am afraid our otherwise wording the matter seeing thou knowest that we are the same now as in the beginning then formerly will not now do I therefore declare again and again in publick and private that the Lord will confound and bring our Adversaries to nothing and that with Power and Authority in the name of the Lord. Geo. Whitehead Ah Brother William my Spirit droops I am afraid that our Infallibility must now fall seeing the Adversaries of our Truth and Light have attacked us both in the Rear and the Flank and Front I have told them I now otherwise word the matter than formerly and that my Intentions are still the same as ever see p. 72. Of Counter Convert and yet for all this they will not leave off troubling of us but tell me that they believe me that all my Positions of Faith are but as before exprest Well let them go on in their Work let us go on blinding the Peoples Eyes and as for them I have told them that they shall come to nothing and that was the Word of the Lord to them The Quakers otherwise wording the matter than formerly 1. Concerning the Blessed Trinity The Christianity of the Quakers asserted 1698 p. 3. OUR Belief is that in the Unity of the Godhead there is Father Son and Holy Ghost being those Three Divine Witnesses that bare Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Spirit and that these Three are one according to Holy Scripture Testimony Gospel Truths by W. Pen and 3 more Belief the 2d It is our Belief that there are Three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and these Three are really one 1 John 5.7 2. Concerning the Light Within W. P. Chr. Qr. p. 91. We do not say that the Light in every Man is Christ but of Christ 3. Concerning the Divinity and Humanity of Jesus Christ The Christianity of the Quakers asserted p. 4. We verily believe that Jesus Christ is truly God and Man according as Holy Scripture testifies of him God over all blessed for ever the true God and Eternal Life The one Mediator between God and Man even the Man Christ Jesus 4. Concerning Salvation and Justification Ibid. p. 4. We expect Salvation and Justification by Jesus Christ his Righteousness Merits and Works and not by our own God is not indebted to us for our Deservings but we to him for his free Grace in Christ Jesus whereby we are saved through Faith in him not of our selves and by his Grace enabled truly and acceptably to serve and follow him as he requires He is our all in all who worketh all in us that is well pleasing to God Gospel Truths by W. P. and 3 more Belief the 4th That as we are only justified from the Guilt of Sin by Christ the Propitiation and not by Works of Righteousness that we have done so there is an absolute necessity that we receive and obey to unfeigned Repentance and amendment of Life the holy Light and Spirit of Jesus Christ in order to obtain that Remission and Justification from Sin Since no Man can be justified by Christ who walks after the Flesh but after the Spirit for whom he sanctifies them he also justifies and if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light his precious Blood cleanseth us from all Sin as well from the Pollution as Guilt of Sin 5. Concerning Remission of Sin and Redemption The Christianit● of the Quakers assert p. 5. We do believe the Remission of Sin and Redemption through Faith in Christ as he suffered and died for all Men gave himself a Ra●●●●● 〈◊〉 all and his Blood being shed for the Remission of Sins so all they 〈…〉 ●●lieve and obey him receive the Benefits and blessed E●●ec● 〈…〉 and dying for them they by Faith in his Name receive 〈…〉 that Eternal Redemption which he hath obtained for us who 〈…〉 for us that he might redeem us from all Iniquity He died for 〈…〉 and rose again for our Justification and if we walk in the Light as 〈…〉 the Light we have fellowship one with another and the Blood of 〈◊〉 Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin 1 John 1.7 6. Concerning the Holy Scriptures The Christianity of the Quakers assert p. 14. We do believe and own the holy Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and new Testament to be given by divine Inspiration and to contain all matters of Doctrine and Testimony c. necessary to be believed and practised in order to Salvation and Peace with God and always desire to live in the Faith Knowledge and Practice of them in all things appertaining to Life and Godliness Holy Scripture being given by divine Inspiration is profitable for Doctrine Correction and Instruction that the Ma● of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto every good Work ab●● to make the Man of God wise unto Salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus 7. Concerning the Resurrection ●he Christianity of the Quakers assert p. 15. We sincerely believe and confess the Doctrine of the Resurrection from the Dead and of Eternal Judgment according to Holy Scripture Heb. 6.2 That God will raise the dead and judge the world in righteousness by his Son Jesus Christ in the day appointed even in the great day of judgment and that Harvest which is the end of the World What the Quakers held formerly 1. Concerning the Blessed Trinity G. Whitehead to Mr. Townsend The Three Persons which thou dreamest of Ishmael and his ●●ther cast out p. 10. which thou wouldst divide out of one like a Conjurer are all denied and thou shut up with them in perpetual Darkness for the Lake and Pit for thou hast no Scripture that mentions any such things The Scriptures do not tell People of a Trinity nor Three Persons but the Common prayer Mass-book speaks of three Persons brought in by the Father the Pope G. F. Gr. Mist p. ●46 2. Concerning the Light Within The Light that shews to every Man his evil deeds is Christ G. F. Catch p. 2. 3. Concerning the Divinity and Humanity of Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ God Man not Scripture language G W. Dipper Pl●ng'd p. 13. C. A. Sword of the Lord drawn p. 5. G. W. Light Life p. 17. Your Imagined God beyond the Stars and your carnal Christ is utterly denied To say Christ is God and Man in one Person is a Lye The Flesh and Body which Christ took was not Christ 4. Concerning Salvation and Justification This we deny viz. Justification by the Righteousness which Christ hath fulfilled in his own Person for us Serious Apol. p. 1●8 wholly without us and boldly affirm it in the name of the Lord to be the Doctrine of Devils and an Arm of the Sea of Corruption which do now deluge the whole World Observ the Words wholly without us relate to the meritorious Cause of Men's Justification before God which is the Righteousness of Christ's Person by his most holy and perfect obedience unto Death and shedding of his most precious Blood and that was wholly without us which is here denied by W. Penn. Death came by actual Sin not Imputative Ibid p. 148. therefore Justification unto Life came by actual Righteousness not Imputative The Quakers see no need of directing Men to Jesus Christ or his Blood G. W. Light Life p. 38. as it was outwardly shed at Jerusalem for Justification We are not justified by the shedding of Christ's Blood that was let out by the Spear Ibid. p. 41. Ibid. p. 64. The shedding of that Blood to lay the meritorious cause or stress of Justification upon is false Doctrine 5. Concerning Remission of Sin and Redemption The Devil was in thee thou sayest thou art saved by Christ without thee G. F. Gr. M●st p. 25● and so 〈…〉 If there be a● 〈…〉 Christ 〈…〉 in his Light and Life p. 44. a passage 〈…〉 great 〈…〉 Christ in us 〈…〉 the Wrath of God 〈…〉 by G. Whitehead And this 〈…〉 thou art enlightned is the life of Jesus Step. Crisp 's Collect. p. 160. John 1 〈…〉 hath given a ransom for Man that was not natural as som● 〈…〉 imagine for if it were natural it could not be a ransom for 〈…〉 of Sin They that are turned to the Light ought solely to depend on it 6. Concerning the Holy Scriptures Christ Quak. p. 59. You are in the Witchcraft who observe Commands from without the Letter E. B's Works p. 105. G. F. News out of the North p. 14. So Dust is the Serpents Meat their Original is but Dust which is but the Letter which is Death so these Serpents feed upon Dust which feed upon all these carnal things and their Gospel is Dust Matthew Mark Luke and John which is the Letter the cursed Serpent is in the Letter Truths Defen p 1●2 R. Huberthorn's Words That which is spoken from the Spirit of Truth in any G. W. and W. P. Serious Apology p 49. is of as great Authority as the Scriptures and Chapters are and greater How can or dare any say without the highest Blasphemy G. B. Me●e ●ek p 22. that the Scriptures is the Word of God Note they count it not Blasphemy to call their own Writings the Word of God 7. Concerning the Resurrection Is the Joy of the Ancients now in Glory imperfect Reason against R●iling by W. P. p. 138. or are they in Heaven but by halves but why must the Felicity of the Soul depend upon that of the Body is it not to make the Soul a kind of a Widow to be without its beloved Body a better sort of Purgatory The deceased Saints look not for the Resurrection of their dead Bodies Christ Quak. p. 353. POSTSCRIPT Thus you see plainly the Confusion of Babel's Builders confusedly contradicting themselves and one another in wavering to and fro between so and no and no and so sometimes this and sometimes that and sometimes neither this nor that and sometimes no body knows what surely he who can reconcile and render consistant the above mentioned Passages fairly collected out of their Books and many more that might be collected can reconcile the greatest real Contradictories Truth and Error Light and Darkness Christ and Antichrist But G. Whitehead in his Counterfeit Convert Pag. 72. thinks to save his and his Brethrens Infallibility by telling the World he and they sees cause otherwise now to word the matter though he and his Brethren have the same Intentions so that whatever their seeming Belief now is yet their Sense is the same as is exprest in all their former Books and in the Passages on the right side quoted Therefore all who be honest minded depart I pray you from the Tents of these wicked Men Foxonians least you be consumed in their Sins By one Reformed from Quakerism London Printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick-lane 1700.