The third Scripture is Ephes 2.3 And were by nature Children of wrath even as others If Paul and all the Corinthians were Children of wrath by Nature i.e. by Birth as in another place he saith We who are Jews by Nature Gal. 2.15 i.e. by Birth Parent Original then were they sinners by Nature Birth Original from their Parents otherwise they could not be righteously the Objects of wrath but by this Scripture it appears they were by Nature such Ergo. Let Christopher Tailor answer this If he saith that Christ took away this sin from all Infants then none are Children of wrath by Nature and this Scripture is made a lye then are all Children of Grace as they come into the world till by actual transgression they render themselves obnoxious to wrath Whereas he saith we condemn the Innocent is a begging of the Question in hand And let the Reader judge if in this he writes not too much like an Innocent But this is the fruit of following the Light within and forsaking the Scriptures Nature will never discover its own guile and defilement and the Light within that every man hath is no more than Nature 3. I charge him for preaching the Covenant of Works in opposition to the Gospel by frequent repeating in his Discourses to the People that saying viz. Do this and live He saith to this That be directed to Christ Jesus when he said so and to his Light within that through Faith in him the true Light People might be saved Answ Observe that first he doth distinguish Christ Jesus and the Light and then immediately makes them one and the same Christ Jesus and his Light within It follows that through Faith in him the true Light that lighteh every man c. Now then this Light within every Man is Jesus Christ according to this man's Divinity and Jesus Christ is nothing else but this Light if any thing besides let them declare what But the Scripture saith this Light within every Man is nothing but the Law of Moses written in the heart of Man Rom. 2.15 Which shew the work of the Law written in their hearts So then it remaineth good what I said That C. T. did preach the Law in opposition to the Gospel in using that expression so much Do this and Live It will not serve to say as he doth that he did not press People to the observance of the Law of Moses in the Letter only for Life implying that observance to Moses Law in the Letter and Spirit both is sufficient for Justification unto Life in the fight of God which is the Quakers false Doctrine and another Gospel and renders Christ's personal Righteousness his Obedience and Suffering altogether in vain It is not our observance of Moses Law in the Spirit that is the matter of our Justification in God's fight but that observance that the person of Jesus Christ sixteen hundred years since yeilded to the will of the Father in doing and suffering in the behalf of the Elect in their room and stead being imputed to them May not I say Are not the Quakers willingly ignorant of this going about to set up their own Righteousness That Abraham the Father of the faithful observed Moses Law in the Spirit as well as the Letter yet this did not justifie him unto Life in the sight of God Rom. 4.2 If Abraham was justified by works he had whereof to glory but not before God his works done in the Spirit were not sufficient Rom. 4.6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the Man unto whom God imputed Righteousness without Works what Works Done by the Spirit surely for such were Davids Works he places this blessedness of Man with all his observance of the Law of Moses in the Spirit in Forgiveness of Sin Implying this that there is need of non-imputation of sin in the observance of Moses Law in the Spirit in our best works Did not Isaiah observe Moses Law in the Spirit And yet in that place of Isaiah 64.3 which Christopher T. produceth in a jeer calls it fiilthy Raggs as to Justification Did not Paul observe Moses Law in the Letter and Spirit when a Christian An Apostle Rim. 7. 22. I delight in the Law of God after the inward man Was not this to keep it in the Spirit He kept it in the Letter before his Conversion Phil. 3. Touching the Law Blameless and this he counted Loss for Christ Vers 7. when he was converted to Christ Nay not only so but he counted all things loss for the Excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ and then surely his observance of the Law of Moses in the Spirit in the point of Justification for this is but his own Righteousness not the Righteousness of him that is God the personal Righteousness of Christ God and Man which is to be received by Faith I call Christopher to answer to these things and not to use that expression any more in that manner to the People thinking it enough to say that he preached the obedience of Faith whereas the obedience of Faith taken in a found sence is quite contrary to that Doctrine that is held forth in that Phrase it is twice quoted by the Apostle in the 5 th of the Rom. and 10 th v. and Gal. 3.12 and in both as opposed to the obedience of Faith yea in the latter it is written plainly the Law is not of Faith they are contrary in the business of Justification To that which he chargeth me with viz. that I should say Though a man was regenerate yet this was not sufficient I own it do but add that which we were certainly speaking of viz. in Justification He askes me what else must be added I answer The personal Righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed yea and this alone and singly nothing but this hath any merit in it for my pardon and acceptance in Gods sight The other of Regeneration is but the making me meet for the Inheritance and Kingdom which is given for the sake of Christ's Righteousness and this making meet is also for the Righteousness-sake of Christ To this very thing and why I call inherent Righteousness the Righteousness of the Law at which the Quakers storm I have given sufficient Reasons in the Books I have written which the Reader may enquire for remaining still in the same mind That the holy Law of God requires all the Righteousness that the best of the Saints have within them or without them therefore no more but the Righteousness of the Law by which we are not justified in God's sight 4. He writes That I told him Will. Pen affirmed to a friend of mine That George Fox was as good a Prophet as Isaiah the Prophet and that Christopher Taylor being asked likewise affirmed the same Here my charge remaineth for he doth not deny it but pleads for it only saith That Will. Pen to the best of his knowledge said no such thing Answ If Will. Pen pleaseth I will produce my Friend who shall testifie it to his face and let C. T. and the Quakers in the mean time please themselves making such wife and just Comparisons concluding that George Fox and Isaiah are equal G. as good a Prophet as Isaiah To the Last he writes that I askt him Whether the Man Jesus Christ were in him and that he answered affirmatively which he doth not deny only puts his own Interpretation upon it That by the Man Christ he understands not the Body of Christ but the Spiritual appearance of Christ Answ I have in these Lines of C. T. observed much deceit as here and else-where in that he doth not truly repeat my Words but rather adds something of his own or curtails and cuts off some of mine or changeth some for others The Question was Whether the whole Christ was within him and he answered it affirmatively My assumption was Then the Man Christ to which he replied The Man Christ was then what is this Answer of his but meer evasion neither is the Godhead alone simply considered the whole Christ nor the Manhood alone but both together The whole Christ is God and Man Now if the whole Christ be in Christopher Taylor not only Christ in his Spiritual Appearance but as to his Manhood that Soul and Body that is in Union with the Godhead But why may not this be asserted by him without any absurdity while the Quakers deny that Christ hath any true real Manhood There is a Jesuitical insinuation in the end of all as if he had more against me than he had writ or was willing at present to write You may read the Kidney of this man by this O how tender have the Quakers been of mine Mr. Faldo's and Mr. Hicks's Credit How much engaged we are to them that by their Tongues and Pens they do not take our good Names from us but they are known to be a self-denying People in this thing witness C. T 's dreadful cursing me when in Prison and his railing upon me openly in the Street at Hartford calling me Dagon an Enemy to God c. I know the modesty of this man that he would think no pains too much to scrape in the Kennels and Dunghills of mine and my Brethrens daily Infirmities that he might have but a little Dirt to throw upon us but the Lord pardon him for he knoweth not what he doth nor what he writes and bring him to the sound knowledge of the Man Christ Jesus and his personal imputed Righteousness for Justification which I know he and all the Quakers are Enemies unto 2 Timothy 3. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the Truth Men of corrupt Minds of no Judgement concerning the Faith FINIS
AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THAT Poysonous and Fundamental ERROR OF THE QUAKERS Denying the same Numerical true and real Manhood of Jesus Christ in Heaven a place remote from the Earth In two SERMONS Preached at Hartford By W. H. CHRISTOPHILUS ISA. 4.2 In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful and Glorious and the fruit of the Earth shall be Excellent and Comely for them that are escaped of Israel ISA. 53.2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender Plant and as a Root out of a dry Ground He hath no Form nor Comeliness and when we shall see him there is no Beauty that we should desire him London Printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon in S t. Pauls Church-Yard 1676. The Epistle Dedicatory To his much Honoured FRIEND Sir John Hartop Baronet SIR THAT which gave the Occasion of my thoughts pitching upon this subject matter viz. Christ's Manhood in Heaven was that Dispute betwixt Mr. Hicks and Mr. Pen at London concerning the same I being there present am satisfied by the Quakers fallacious management of that Discourse that they deny the same Numerical true and real Manhood of Christ in Heaven as a place remote from us Since that I have had Discourse with a Neighbour Quaker William Bates who frequently said He did not believe that the Humane Nature that which was taken by Christ of the Virgin had now any being I have three Witnesses of this whom I can produce if need be Sir I may boldly say That neither you I nor thousands more of Christians in this Nation ever thought that we should live to see that day wherein so many thousands pretending to Christianity in this Nation should be so Brazen-foreheaded as to disown Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah yet so it is O Tempora O Mores The Ends of the World are come upon us My Spirit being stirred within me at the hearing of this grand Fundament al Errour I thought it my duty to the Lord Jesus Christ to Antidote the poor Country as much as in me lieth against these damnable Delusions it made him speak that was dumb before when he saw his Fathers Life in danger So what Babe what Novice will want a Mouth a Tongue to speak a Hand a Pen to write when the Man Christ is struck at by ungodly Seducers Therefore I though the least and most unfit of my Brethren have Printed my Notes Preached you know at Hartford and humbly present them to you Sir as to one whom I know to be a sincere lover of the One Mediator betwixt God and Man the Man Christ Jesus and of his Evangelical Truths Pray Sir vouchsafe to read them and candidly bear with what may not be so congruously worded in so sublime a Mystery The Lord by his Spirit establish settle strengthen you in this and every Truth and preserve you and your Elect Lady both as Vessels of Honour to his heavenly Kingdom there to behold the Man Jesus Christ in his Glory which is best of all Your Servant for Jesus sake William Haworth AN ANTIDOTE Against that Poysonous Fundamental Error OF THE QUAKERS c. 1 PETER 3.22 Who is gone into Heaven and is on the Right hand of God THE Apostle Peter is here speaking of the Grounds of Comfort to the guilty Consciences One is in Vers 21. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ The answer of a good Conscience through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ He rose again for our Justification He being acquitted by the Father then His Members are acquitted now A second Proposition in order to the Answer of a good Conscience is The Ascension of Jesus Christ and his sitting at the Right-hand of God all things being made subject to him To see by Faith our Head exalted into Glory and there Advocating for us and Ruling for us is a very comfortable thing In the 18 Verse he is speaking of Christ's being put to death in the Flesh but quickned by the Spirit i.e. the Divine Power Then descends to speak of his Resurrection as the true solid Ground of the Answer of a Good Conscience and from this Resurrection descends to speak of his Ascension So then That same Jesus that was put to death in the Flesh and Raised by the Power of God from the Dead That same is gone into Heaven It 's plain then that he was put to Death in his fleshly Body and in This it was that he Rose again Why then in This is he gone into Heaven and in This is he at the Right-hand of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it speaks a Motion from one Place to another a Change of the Place Now Whither went he Into Heaven Heaven is not every where as some say and so this Change is only a Change of State But Heaven is a Place where God doth manifest most of his Glory It 's called the Heaven of Heavens and the third Heaven whereunto Paul was wrapt up 2 Chron. 6.21 Hear thou from thy dwelling-Place even from Heaven It 's called here and 1 Kings 8.30 Gods Dwelling-Place John 14.2 It 's called the Fathers House In my Fathers House are many Mansions I go to prepare a Place for you And is on the Right-hand of God An Allusion to the Custom of Kings who were wont to take their Favourites and place them on their Right-hand as Solomon placed his Mother at his Right-hand And as Zebedee would have had her Sons at Christ's Right-hand in his Kingdom It is a Place of Honour Glory Power and Authority Learn this Truth from the Words That the Same Jesus Christ that was put to Death in the Flesh and did Rise with that Same Flesh again That Same Jesus in that Same Flesh and Man-hood is now in Heaven which is a Place not a State only there he is at Gods Right-hand in Power and Glory So that as to that Humane Nature he is not upon Earth I will prove this That Jesus Christ is now a true real Man in Heaven and so Is not here on Earth as he is Man That ever Jesus Christ was a true real Man some have denied and have held That it was only an Appearance or Spectrum in the shape of a Man And some are of this mind now But we will take this for granted That Christ was once here on Earth a real true Man but that he is so Now the Quakers deny A Man consists of these two Essential Parts viz. Soul and Body Both these Christ had Heb. 10.5 A Body hast thou prepared me That which was taken by the Virgin which consists of Flesh and Bones Luke 24.39 A Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as ye see me have 2. A Soul he had Matth. 26.38 My Soul is sorrowful even unto Death That both these Essential Parts Soul and Body are now in Heaven I am now about to prove a Place remote from us so that he cannot be said as to his Corporal presence to be here on Earth Though we believe that
so here this was reserved till now for the honour of Christ Therefore Verse 10. it 's said He ascended that be might fill all things i.e. all the Church with the power and virtue of the Spirit Therefore he said upon his departure It is expedient that I go away if I go not away the Comforter will not come with you but if I depart I will send him unto you John 16.7 You see to deny Christ to be a Man in Heaven is to rob the Church of the great Gift of the Spirit of God it self and all the Gifts thereof Reason 4. To deny Christ to be now a Man in Heaven it is to deny Christ to be King and Lords it is to deny Christ's Rule Power Authority and Dominion Psal 110. Sit thou at my Right-hand this must be spoke as to Christ's Man-hood as to his God-head he had alway Majesty and Power it follows till I make thine Enemies thy foot-stool This sitting at Gods Right-hand is called reigning 2 Cor. 15. He must reign till all his Enemies become his Foot-stool It 's spoke of in Ephes 1.20 And set him at his own right-hand that must be as to his Man-hood far above all Principalities and Powers and Might and Dominion and every Name that is named not only in this World but in that which is to come Vers 21. And hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be Head over all things to the Church Phil. 2. Hath highly exalted him This must be as Man And given him a Name above every name that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow So in this place of Peter He is gone into the Heavent and is at the Right Hand of God Angels Authorities and Powers being made subject to him It is very comfortable for the Saints to consider that Christ is exalted on purpose to sit as King to Rule over all the Enemies of the Church Death and Devils for their good gathering his Saints by degrees to himself and that at length all the Governments of this World will be subservient to him Acts 2.36 God hath made that same Jesus both Lord and Christ You may see by the scope he was thus upon his Ascension in vers 34. Christ was Lord before but now was there a clearer manifestation of it his Manhood being exalted now from hence is our defence and safety in our Warfare Reason 5. It is to deny Christ Jesus his second coming and being Judge of the World Acts 17.31 Because he bath appointed a day in which he will judge the World in righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained wherefore he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the Dead He hath ordained the Man Christ to be Judge and that Man that was raised from the dead Acts 1.11 It 's there said This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into Heaven Now he went away Visibly so he shall come Therefore Rev. 1. Every eye shall see him i. e. every eye of Man He cannot be seen with a Carnal Eye as to his Deity and the wicked cannot see him with a spiritual Eye How then shall every Eye see him but in the sence we speak Heb. 9. Vlt. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many And unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without fin to salvation Observe he that was offered will appear Now he was offered as to his Man-hood Matth. 24. They shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven Isa 40.5 All flesh shall see his Glory Now this is sweet to the Saints to consider that we shall be judged by Christ our Saviour Reason 6. If Christ hath not now a Humane Nature then hath he no Sympathy with his Members in their Afflictions But Christ hath a fellow-feeling with his People in all their straits Heb. 4.15 For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our Infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without sin He had all our Infirmities when here upon Earth Hunger Thirst Weariness Sorrow Fear and Dread of Death but without Sin and he had them for this end that he might know how to pitty us in our State he being now gone into Heaven and having the same Soul and Body in which he suffered these things he remembers how it was with him here upon Earth therefore he gives the Reason of this Pitty and Compassion because he was in all points 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in or through all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Bez◠renders similiter For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 like as we are To the same purpose doth the same Apostle speak Chap. 2.17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his Brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest If he hath not now a Humane Nature in Heaven he doth not retain these two Essential Qualities of an High Priest viz. Mercifulness and faithfulness Now those that deny this would rob us of this sweet Consideration in our Afflictions in our Poverty Sorrows Imprisonments Hurries and Temptations by Satan Why Christ was poor in this World hurried up and down by the Devil suffered the Contradictions of sinners abused by wicked Men afraid of Death in an Agony forsaken of God and is now gone into Heaven in that same Humane Nature in which he felt these things and remembers how it was with him and hath a fellow-feeling with us and pittieth us Hence came that Voice of his from Heaven when Saul was making Havock of the Church Saul Saul Why persecutest thou me Lose not this Comfort Reason 7. The Consideration of the Man-hood of Christ now in Heaven doth give a boldness and access in Prayer God hath rendred himself much more familiar to us this way We are very apt to be swallowed up with the abstracted thoughts of the Deity we being poor ones full of infirmities know not how to bear the Majesty and Glory of the Son of God But now we draw near with boldness and Pray with more sweetness where we know that He to when we pray is Man as well as God It was a great help and comfort to the Jews that they had a Priest that was a Brother one of themselves that was to Pray for them and Offer for them that was familiar with them and they could have access unto him Now the Apostle having to do with them in this Epistle to the Hebrews lest they should be confounded with the thoughts of the Majesty of the Deity of the Son of God having asserted that he was very God and all the Angels worshiped him tells them withall That he took Flesh and Blood and was a Brother one of us in the latter end of the second Chapter And thereupon in the last Verse of Chap. 4. he encourageth