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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54161	A key opening a way to every common understanding, how to discern the difference betwixt the religion professed by the people called Quakers and the perversions, misrepresentations and calumnies of their several adversaries : published in great good will to all, but more especially for their sakes that are actually under prejudice from vulgar abuses.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1312A; ESTC R28422	12,318	37

and Respect but what is relative or equal between Men. Princ. They Honour all Men in the Lord but not in the Spirit and Fashions of this World that pass away and tho' they do not pull off their Hats or make Curchings nor give flattering Titles or Complements because they believe there is no true Honour but Flattery and Sin in the using of them yet they treat all Men with Seriousness and Gentleness and are ready to do them any reasonable Benefit or Service in which they think real Honour consisteth Whereas those that thus reproach them are often Peevish Snappish Abusive and Oppressive one to another tho' at the same time they can give one another the Cap and Knee which is far from true Civility or honouring all Men as they are exhorted by the Apostle And as for expressing their respect to their Superiors they think it best done by obeying all just Laws under their Government according to the saying of the Centurion unto Christ and which Christ so much approved of Luk. 7. 8 9. Pervers 17. The Quakers are Enemies to all Government every one acting according to his own Conceit Princ. That this a Calumny their Lives and Conversations sufficiently shew for no People give the Magistracy less Trouble or cause that Charge or Burden to sit lighter on their Shoulders than they do And for their Principle They believe Magistracy to be an Ordinance of God And he that Ruleth well to be worthy of double Honour and is to be much valued and esteemed as such certainly do who are a Terror to Evil doers and a Praise to them that do well And further to shew that they are a People that love Order and good Government they carefully practise it among themselves for if there be twenty Meetings of Worship in a County they peradventure make three or four Monthly Meetings of Business and these Monthly Meetings are resolved into a Quarterly Meeting for the County by such Members as they severally appoint to constitute it And all the Quarterly Meetings in the Nation by chosen Men out of themselves do constitute one general Yearly Meeting unto which the Meetings of those People in all parts of the World have their Recourse by Chosen Messengers or by Epistles The Business of all which Meetings in their several Degrees being to promote Virtue and Charity Peace and Unity Thus sober Reader thou hast an Account of this People their Principles and Practice and thereby thou mayst see if thou pleasest with how little Reason they are despised by some and abused by others which hath been their Lot in a large Measure ever since they have been a People Though the whole bent of their Spirits and Testimony since God by his Grace hath raised them to be a People hath been to promote the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ in the World by turning all People from darkness to the light of Christ in them as the great and singular Agent and Principle by which only Man is enlightned and inabled to see and do the Will of God For till Men are quickned by this divine Principle they are Hypocrites and not Christians and Bastards and not Sons Neither can they have true Faith whatsoever they profess nor can they truly worship God whatever they perform Oh then let the poor Quakers and their abused Principles have better entertainment with thee Reader And do not conclude because they direct People to the Light of Christ in them that therefore it is a meer natural and not a divine Light Or because they assert Christ to be the Word of God and that he is revealed in the Heart according to the Scripture and that the Scripture in that sense is not so therefore they deny the divine Authority of the Scriptures and that the Truth thereof is not in any sense the Word of the Lord Or because they don't receive the Schoolmens Trinity therefore they deny the Scripture Trinity of Father Word and Spirit Or that therefore they deny the Divinity of the Word Or that they deny Christ without them who was the Son of Man in a suffering state on Earth and is now the Son of Man in Glory because they exalt and press the knowledge of Christ within as the Truth and Excellency of the Hope of the Glory that hereafter shall be revealed according to Col. 1. 26 27 28 29. and 2 Cor. 13. 5. as being the Riches of the Glory of the Mysteries revealed and to be revealed in these latter days Neither say that they hope to be saved by their own works since they maintain that no Works that are not wrought by the Spirit of God are acceptable to him Or that they hold even such Works meritorious because they say good Works are necessary and rewardable Or that they deny the use of Means because they reject Ungospel ones or that they deny Baptism and the Supper because they say they experience their Accomplishments Neither say that they honour no Man because they forbear Titles and Ceremonies in which true honour consists not Or that they are against Government because they cannot conform to it in Matters relating to Religion and Conscience in which Christ only is Lord and King Since thou seest Reader That they believe the Light to be divine and the Scriptures to be of divine Authority That they own the Scripture Trinity or holy Three of Father Word and Spirit to be truly and properly one that Christ is God and that Christ is Man that he came in the Flesh died rose again ascended and sits on God's right hand the only Sacrifice and Mediator for Man's happiness That truly Gospel Means and Ordinances are requisite and to be reverently practised That good Works are necessary and rewardable That all Men are to be honoured in the Lord according to their Degrees and that Government in Church and State is God's Ordinance and both requisite and very beneficial Now Reader that which remains is to recommend thee to this divine Principle They make the Root and Spring of all true sense of God and Religion in Man even the Light within which comes from Christ and is Christ the eternal Word and brings all that follow the Convictions and Leadings of it to Christ and to know him in themselves the hope of their Eternal Glory Who as he is of Abraham after the Flesh so is he God the true Light over all blessed forever that inlightens all in order to Life and Blessedness Unto whose holy and blessed Light thou Reader art recommended Love it and walk in it and thou shalt have Fellowship with God and with his Saints and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son shall cleanse thee from all Sin 1 Jo. 1. 5 6 7. which is most earnestly desired on thy Behalf FINIS Books Printed for Tho. Northcott in George-yard in Lombard-street 1693. TRuth Triumphant through the Spiritual Warfare Christian Labours and Writings of that able and faithful Servant of Jesus Christ Robert Barclay price bound 13s The Truth Exalted in the Writings of that eminent and faithful Servant of Christ John Burnyeat price bound 2s 6d The Presbyterian and Independent visible Churches in New England and elsewhere brought to the Test and examined according to the Doctrin of the Holy Scriptures in their Doctrin Ministry Worship Constitution Government Sacraments and Sabbath day By G. Keith Price bound 1s 6d The Divine Light of Christ in Man and his Mediation truly confessed by the People called Quakers By G. VVhitehead Price 2d The Fundamental Truths of Christianity by G. Keith price bound 8d His Way to the City of God described Elizabeth Bathurst's Truth 's Vindication price bound 8d The Spirit of the Martyrs Revived pric● bound 4s