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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43113	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.	Haworth, William.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1195; ESTC R514	18,456	23

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