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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

of Sin cannot be obtained 1 John 3. 19 20 21. Rom. 8. 13 14. Joh. 3. 19 20. Rom. 8. 2 16. Gal. 6. 8. 2. Thess 2. 13. XI Because we make Evangelical Obedience a Condition to Salvation and works by the Spirit an Evidence of Faith and a holy Life both Necessary and Rewardable Tit. 3. from vers 3. to 9. Tit. 2. 14. Jam. 2. 22. XII When we say that in some respects Christ was not our Sacrifice but Example and that his Obedience to his Father doth not Excuse ours but as he abode in his Father's Love by Keeping his Commandments we must follow his Blessed Example John 15. 9 10. XIII From our pleading for a Purification and Perfection from Sin agreeable to the Testimony of the holy Scriptures on this side the Grave through the pure Workings of the Holy and Perfect Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ Mat. 5. 48. Mat. 19. 21. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Col. 1. 28. Tit. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 22 23. XIV Because we say with the Apostle That Men ought to Pray Preach and Sing with the Spirit and that no Man can Rightly worship GOD without the Preparation by and Assistance of his holy Spirit and that we ought to wait to feel It for that end and that other Worship is Formal and Carnal Rom. 8. 26. 1 Cor. 14. 15. Prov. 16. 1. Luk. 24. 49. Acts 1. 4. Acts 2. 1. Psal 39 2 3. XV. From our denying the Resurrection of the same Natural and Corruptable Body and declining to be Inquisitive and Critical about what Body we shall rise with according to the Caution of the Apostle therein leaving it to the Lord to give us a Body as pleaseth him 1 Cor. chap. 15. 2 Cor. 5. 1 2. Their Adversaries Perversions OUr Adversaries are pleased to make us to deny and undervalue the Scriptures as Not to he a Rule in any Respect tho' our Books plentifully shew we confess them to be the Next and Secondary Rule to the holy SPIRIT and that we ever chuse to express our Belief of Christian Faith and Doctrine in the Terms thereof They also say We prefer our own Books before them while we Love Honour and use Them above all the Books in the World and refuse to express matters of Faith in other Terms than what are Expresly in Scripture or so agreeable as to leave no just ground for any doubt of our Respect and Regard to them Such as desire to lessen the Credit of our Perswasion with sober People Represent us to deny the Trinity at large and in every sense tho' we only reject School-Terms and Philosophical Definitions as Unscriptural if not Unsound and as having a Tendency to Fruitless Controversie instead of Edification and Holiness among Christians We have been Uncharitably Represented by some as if we denied All outward Means or Contradicted our selves in the Use of them which they may as well charge against the Apostle John in Asserting the Sufficiency of the Anointing People have been told by our Adversaries That we believe every Man has Whole GOD and Whole CHRIST in him and consequently so many Gods and so many Christs Tho' we Assert no more but the very Language of the holy Ghost in the Scriptures of Truth and mean no more by it than that Christ by his Light and Spirit dwelleth in the hearts of his People It has been inferred that we hold that Christ is in and to Wicked Men as he is in and to his Saints tho' he is a Condemner to the One and a Comforter to the other Our Opposers will have it That all who have this Light must consequently be Good Men whether they Obey it or no or else the Light is Insufficient Some are not ashamed to tell the World in our Name That Christ was never visible as to his Bodily Appearance and consequently that we deny his Coming in the Flesh above sixteen hundred years ago tho' his coming then is an Article of our Christian Belief We are represented to Deny or Undervalue the Coming of Christ without us and the Force and Efficacy of his Death and Sufferings as a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World tho' we only Deny the Benefit thereof to such who by Living in Sin instead of Dying to Sin and Pleasing instead of Denying themselves to please GOD Deprive Themselves thereof Some unworthily conclude we disown Christ as a Satisfactory Sacrifice in his Death and Sufferings and as if we did not believe he died for the Sins of the Whole World or that he Carried away Sin and Sealed Redemption in his Blood to as many as Rightly Believe and that we expect both to be Forgiven and Accepted of GOD not for his sake but our own Works Which Suggestions we utterly detest and disown It is inferred against us That we deny Justification at all in any sense by the Death and Sufferings of the Propitiatory Sacrifice of Christ for the Sins of the whole World Than which nothing can be more Uncharitable Untrue or Unjust Since we Never did nor can believe the Remission of Sins in any other Name than that of our Lord Jesus Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself up once for all an Holy and Acceptable Sacrifice to GOD. Our Opposers would make People believe we hope to be sav'd by our own Works and not by Grace which is the Gift of GOD and so make them the Meritorious Cause of our Salvation and consequently Papists They will have us to mean and venture to say for us that we believe our Lord Jesus Christ to be in all things but an Example and in no rerespect our Sacrifice We are made so presumptious as to assert the FULNESS of all Perfection and Happiness attainable in this Life Ignorance or Envy suggests against us That if GOD will not compel us by his Spirit he must go without his Worship We are made to Deny the Resurrection of any Body however Spiritual or Glorified and even of Eternal Rewards too Which if True we are of all People the most miserable THus Sober Reader thou hast some Taste of the Usage we have received in a more abundant manner at their hands who have Undertaken to give an Account of our Belief to the World that it has been very hard for People to see us through those Disguises that Interest Ignorance or Malice hath put upon us But 't is our desire for thy own Good as well as our Defence that GOD would please by the Light of his dear Son to give thee a Clear and Effectual Sight of the Dispensation of his Heavenly Truth in the Inward Parts which he hath blessed us withal Viz. the Revelation and Setting up of the Kingdom of CHRIST in the Hearts and Souls of the Sons of Men where Sin and Self have so much and so long Prevailed that thou mayest come to be a Witness of us Goodness and thy Soul with ours Admire Adore and for ever Praise his most Glorious and Everlasting NAME through his dear and Well-Beloved SON and our REDEEMER for He is Worthy Worthy Worthy World without End Dublin the 26th of the 3d Month 1698. WILLIAM PENN THE END