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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 Sufferings 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. Dublin Printed in the Year 1698. Reader OCcasion having been given us we never sought we continue to improve it to the further Explanation and Defence of our so much abused Profession that if possible People may see at least the more Sober and Candid That we are not at that distance from Truth nor so Heterodox in our Principles as we have been by too many either hastily or interestedly Represented but that indeed we hold the Great Truths of Christianity according to the holy Scriptures and that the Realities of Religion are the Mark we press after and to disabuse and awaken People from their false Hopes and carnal Securities under which they are too apt to indulge themselves to their Irreparable Loss that by our setting Christian Doctrine in a true Light and receiving and pressing the Necessity of a better Practice They may see the Obligation they are under to redeem their precious time they have lost by a more careful Employment of that which remains to a better purpose This has occasioned Us to Re-print the 8th and 9th Chapters of Primitive Christianity being willing to Speak in the Language of what has been already made Publick that it may be seen We neither Change tho for the better is always commendable nor Write otherwise now then before to serve a present Turn In which and a Postscript comparing our Principles with our Opposers usual Perversions the Ingenious Reader may easily discern how Ill We have been Treated and what Hardships We have laboured under through the Prejudice of some and the Unreasonable Credulity of others and do Us the Justice to believe that We are a People in Earnest for Heaven and in that way our Blessed Lord hath trod for Us to Glory For no Cross no Crown CHAP. VIII Sect. 1. Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification Owned and Worded according to Scripture Sect. 2. What Constructions we can't believe of them and which is an abuse of them Sect. 3. Christ Owned a Sacrifice and a Mediator Sect. 4. Justification Two-fold from the Guilt of Sin and from the Power and Pollution of it Sect. 5. Exhortation to the Reader upon the whole Obj. 1. THough there be ma-many good things said how Christ appears and works in a Soul to Awaken Convince and Convert it yet you seem not particular enough about the Death and Sufferings of Christ And it is generally Rumour'd and Charged upon you by your Adversaries that you have little reverence to the Doctrine of Christ's Satisfaction to God for our Sins and that you do not Believe That the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ when He was in the World is the alone ground of a Sinners Justification before God Answ § 1. The Doctrine of Satisfaction and Justification truly understood are placed in so strict an Union that the one is a necessary Consequence of the other and what we say of them is what agrees with the suffrage of Scripture and for the most part in the terms of it always believing that in Points where there arises any difficulty be it from the Obscurity of Expression Mis-translation or the Dust raised by the Heats of Partial Writers or Nice Criticks it is ever best to keep close to the Text and maintain Charity in the rest I shall first speak Negatively what we do not own which perhaps hath given occasion to those who have been more Hasty then Wise to judge us defective in our Belief of the Efficacy of the Death and Sufferings of Christ to Justification As § 2. First We cannot Believe that Christ is the Cause but the Effect of God's Love according to the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple John Chap. 3. God hath so loved the World that he hath given his only Begotten Son into the World that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have Everlasting Life Secondly We cannot say God could not have taken another way to have saved Sinners than by the Death and Sufferings of his Son to satisfie his Justice or that Christ's Death and sufferings were a strict and rigid Satisfaction for that Eternal Death and Misery due to a Man for Sin and Transgression For such a Notion were to make God's Mercy little concerned in Man's Salvation and indeed we are at too great a distance from his Infinite Wisdom and Power to judge of the Liberty and Necessity of his Actings Thirdly We cannot say Jesus Christ was the greatest Sinner in the World because he bore our Sins on his Cross or because he was made Sin for us who knew no Sin an Expression of great levity and unsoundness yet often said by great Preachers and Professors of Religion Fourthly We cannot Believe that Christ's Death and Sufferings so satisfies God or justifies Men as that they are thereby Accepted of God They are indeed thereby put into a state capable of being accepted of God and through the Obedience of Faith and Sanctification of the Spirit are in a state of Acceptance For we can never think a Man justified before God while Self-condemned or that any Man can be in Christ who is not a New Creature or that God looks upon Men otherwise then they are We think it a state of Presumption and not of Salvation to call Jesus Lord and not by the Work of the Holy Ghost Master And he not yet Master of our Affections Saviour And they not saved by him from their Sins Redeemer And yet they not redeemed by him from their Passion Pride Covetousness Wantonness Vanity Honours vain Friendships and Glory of this World Which were to deceive themselves for God will not be mocked such as Men sow such must they reap And though Christ did Die for us yet we must by the Assistance of his Grace work out our Salvation with fear and trembling As he Died for Sin so we must Die to Sin or we cannot be said to be saved by the Death and Sufferings of Christ or throughly justified and accepted with God Thus far Negatively Now Possitively what we own as to Justification § 3. We do Believe that Jesus Christ was our Holy Sacrifice and Attonement and Prepiriation that he bore our Iniquities and that by his Stripes we were healed of the Wounds Adam gave us in his Fall and that God is just in forgiving true Penitents upon the Credit of that Holy Offering Christ made of himself to God for us and that what he did and suffer'd satisfied and pleased God and was for the sake of fallen Man that had displeased God And that through the Offering up of himself once for all through the Eternal Spirit he hath for Ever perfected those in all