is God over all Blessed for ever Page 4. Christ in dying for us is our Example in Sufferings and The Brazen Serpent lifted up c. 1655. By R. Farnsworth way to the Father for Christ in Dying for Sinners and Ungodly died for all for was not all Sinners and Ungodly guilty of Christ's Death but it is by his Blood that we are Justified and by his Life that we are Saved In following his Counsel and obeying him through the Cross which slays the Enmity as he became obedient to the Death of the Cross who is our Leader and Example and is the Author of Eternal Salvation to all that obey him but none else We believe that all things which are spoken by the Holy A new Catechism 1664. By W. Smith Prophets and Apostles concerning Christ are true according to the Scriptures We believe that all the Dispensations of God which are manifested by the Scriptures are altogether true and that they were all fulfilled according to the determinate Will and Counsel of God So that our Faith concerning Christ in us and the Work which he there worketh for us doth not all make void any of the Dispensations of God which in times past were revealed unto his Holy Prophets and Apostles and by them testified in the Scriptures so that the Work which the Father then gave unto the Son to do we believe that he fulfilled according to the Father's Will and that all things pertaining to Life and Salvation were FULLY and PERFECTLY in him and that he humbled himself to the Death of the Cross and from Death did rise again And we believe that he is the Resurrection and the Life and gives Eternal Life to all that believe in him P. 19 20. We Believe and Testifie that this Jesus of Nazaretio Rebellion Rebuked c. 167. by John Crook and William Bayly wrought out fulfilled all Righteousness in his Obedience both in DOING and SUFFERING the Holy Law and Will of God and that this Righteousness so wrought out and fulfilled was not for himself but for or because of all such as truly seeing they have no Covering or Righteousness of their own flee unto and lay hold of him and his Everlasting Righteousness by a True and Living Faith We Believe and Testifie That his Blood exceeds not only the Blood of Bulls and of Goats but the Blood of the best Man or Men that ever was or shall be in the World And we do in the sight of God really own the Blood of the Son of Man both according to the History and in the Mystery as we do his Cross both as Shed for us and to be Drank by us both as bespeaking Remission of Sin past through Faith in it and as Sprinkling the Conscience of True Believers and Cleansing them from all Sin But because we Testifie that it 's not the Notion or bare Historical and Literal Belief of those things that Justifie or make us Really free from that which comes upon every Soul of Man that doth Evil whether Jew or Gentile Professor or Prophane but only the Life and Virtue of this Blood received into the Heart by that Living Faith which Christ alone is the Author of Therefore are we Branded with Slighting the Blood of the Man Christ c. though we Testifie our Esteem thereof both in the History and in the Mystery and that without the Life and Virtue of this Blood there is no Remission P. 9. Therefore we do Confess to his Sufferings according Truths Vindication c. 1679. Eliz. Bathurst to the Scriptures for Christ also hath once Suffered for Sin the Just for the Unjust that he might bring us to God being put to Death in the Flesh but Quickened in the Spirit we 1 Peter 3. 18. own his Death as an Acceptable and most Satisfactory Sacrifice to God for the Sins of all and is of Blessed Advantage to all that receive Faith in his Blood Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Rom. 3. 25. Eph. 5. 2. his Blood to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past through the Forbearance of God and he hath given himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a Sweet Smelling Savour Also we Believe that as Christ Died for our Sins so he was Buried likewise and rose again according to the Scriptures But now is Christ 1 Cor. 15. 3 4. 20. 21. Risen from the Dead and become the first Fruits of them that Sleep For since by Man came Death by Man came also the Resurrection of the Dead The Apostle mentions this as the Assurance which God gave to Men of his Judging the World at the Great Day by his Son Jesus Christ namely Acts 17. 31. his having Raised him from the Dead P. 31 32. And the Preaching of this Jesus Powerful Shepherd and A Mirrour c. 1683. by Sam. Wattson Bishop of our Souls was in the Heavenly Authority of his Father in which he spoke forth all things appertaining to Life and Salvation and are left upon Record by those who were Witnesses of his Coming in a most Special Manner by Matthew Mark Luke and John who were Witnesses with many more of his Doctrine Life and Suffering which laid down his Life for his Sheep as 't is Written They stripped him and put on him a Scarlet Mat. 27. 28. Robe and when they had platted a Crown of Thorns they put it on his Head Nailing him to the Cross Spitting upon him and Mocking him saying Hail KING of the Jews tho' he had done nothing worthy of Death yet the Hard-hearted who Rejected the Corner Stone said We have a Law and by our Law this Man must Die So refusing the Just One and the Saviour of the World they chose Barrabas to Live This Cruelty Acted it self in a Guileful Spirit to Destroy him in whom was found no Guile neither ever was it in his Mouth This is he who Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead and Buried and the Third Day Rose again who ascended and sitteth at the Right Hand of God the Father from whence by his own Power he comes to Judge both the Quick and the Dead This is he in whom I Believe and is my Saviour in and through whose Precious Blood is my Salvation and Redemption and not in another which Thousands with me are Witnesses of whose Blessed Promise we Believe in and in measure made partakers of that he would send the Comforter the Spirit of Truth whom the World could not receive because they knew him not he shall bring all things to Remembrance and shall lead and guide into all Truth And he that is in you shall be with you to the end of the World This is the Blessed Saviour whose Appearance is in Spirit as the Apostle Testifies of his Second Appearance without Sin to Salvation which cannot be known but by his Spiritual Work in the Inner Man whose Appearance
supply his wants may spend his time in Catalogues of Heresies and the Stale Tracts of uncertain Persons to enable him to club Quotations and clap them upon the back of Charges taken from our profest Adversaries from whom in part he receives his Bread yet I doubt not but to bring in such a train of Evidence in these Questions wherein we are said to be Heretical as will sufficiently evidence to the Impartial Reader that the Charge as as well as the Man is false and that our belief in these Articles is Scriptural The Method I purpose to take herein is this I shall set down in a methodical order the several Testimonies under each distinct Head according to the priority of time in which they were written so that upon a short view the Reader may have recourse to each Some Testimonies to Christ Jesus as the Son of God and come in the Flesh SECT II. Page 2 3 4. WE Profess and Confess Books Titles Faith in God the Father and in Jesus A Confession and Profession of Faith in God c. 1651. by Rich. Farnsworth Christ his Eternal Son the True God and in the Holy Spirit And we do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the Words of God And there is none other Gods but One and this is God the Father which we own Isa 44. 8. 1 Cor. 8. 4. John 10. 30 31 Mark 12. 29 30 31 32 33 34. 1 Cor. 8. 5 6. Rom. 4. 25. Isaiah 45. 6. Eph. 4. 4 5 30. John 4. 24. Phil. 1. 1 29. and Profess Faith in and in Jesus Christ his Eternal Son who said I and my Father are One upon which saying the Jews took up Stones to Stone him yet notwithstanding the same Christ that the Jews hated we love belive in and own who was delivered up to be Crucified for our Offences and was raised again for our Justification who is the True God And him we Own and Profess Faith in and in the Holy Spirit God together equal with the Father and the Son One God over all Blessed for ever And unto us and all True Christians the Saints in Christ Jesus It is given in the Behalf of Christ not only to Believe on him but also to Suffer for his Name sake P. 10 11. VII In the next place truly to know this Lord Jesus The One Good Way of God Printed 1661. Written by Rich Hodden Christ come in the Flesh as the New and Living Way to the Father the Immanuel God with us making the Attonement by the Blood of his Cross to have all things subject unto him his Servants in him and he in them which is the great Mystery of Godliness his from Ages and Generations until the fulness of time and then Manifested in the Flesh Justified in the Spirit Believed on in the World and Received up into Glory which none of the Wise Men of the World ever knew or can know by all their Learned Skill of Earthly Wisdom nor any Man that Lives after the Flesh or satisfieth himself with Hearing Reading Telling or Talking of him or concerning what he or his Apostles did said or suffered as those that vainly take his Name into their Mouths on most occasions of their Invented Ways but know him not neither by his Divine Nature nor Name nor HOW GOD AND MAN BECAME ONE CHRIST JESUS how that which may be known of God is manifest in Man how he is The Wonderful Counsellor the Mighty God the Prince of Peace The Author and Finisher of our Faith How he saves his People from their Sins is the Reconciler without Imputation of Sin How he is Formed in his Servants and Cleanseth them by his Blood from all Sin and Unrighteousness how they take up the Cross and follow him or what the Cross is how the Body becomes Dead because of Sin and the Spirit Alive for Righteousness sake How they are Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones how he is their Loader and Captain of Salvation made perfect through Sufferings How they are Baptized into his Death and Saved by his Life How the Union is perfected in all the Parts and Members of his Body the Church What the Church is or how his Body or what it is to eat his Flesh and drink his Blood without which as himself said we have no Life in us How every Knee shall bow to him of things in Heaven in Earth and under the Earth and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father How he is that Blessed and Only Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Head of all Thrones and Dominions and every Name that is named P. 2 13 14. This is answered in part already by what is said to A Vindication of the Principles and Practices of the People called Quakers 1665 By Geo. Bishop the former Question which in effect is this That that which enlightens which shews a Man his Heart his Reins and tryeth them which reproves which makes manifest is Christ the Light which Christ is the same that was born of the Virgin Mary which was made Flesh which sitteth at the right Hand of God which was Crucified Dead rose again from the Dead and ascended far above the Heavens that he might fill all things who when he was in the days of his Flesh with his Disciples said It is expedient for you that I go away for John 16. 7. 8 9 10 11. if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you and when he is come he will reprove the World of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgment of Sin because they believe not in me of Righteousness because I go to my Father and of Judgment because the Prince of the World is Judged So that which reproves the World of Sin of Righteousness and of Judgment the Spirit of Truth which proceedeth from the Father which testifies of Christ which guideth into all Truth is the thing that now is to be look'd to Christ in you the Hope of Glory the Mystery hid from Ages and Generations but now made manifest to his Saints the Riches of the Glory of the Mystery Now the Lord is that Spirit And when the Spirit of Truth is come he will John 16. 13. 2 Cor. 3. 17. guide you into all Truth Christ and the Light which is within are not Two but One yet are Ibil. p. 15. they not so One as that where Christ is there is the Body that Suffered at Jerusalem that was Flesh that proceeded from the Virgin Mary that died was buried rose again and ascended for in that he sitteth at the right Hand of God But where the Light is there is Christ which was in the Beginning with God by whom all things were made that was made In whom was Life and the Life was the Light of Men John 1. 2 3 4.
is their own this W. Penn further speaks to in p. 51. his words are For the reasonable part of Man is his Spiritual part and that guided by the Divine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Word which Tertullian interprets Reason in the most Excellent Sense makes Man truly reasonable and then it is that Man comes to offer up himself to God a Reasonable Sacrifice In what plainer words can a Man own Man's Reason and God's Revelation the first as it is Natural and the other as it is Divine He leaves W. Penn at present and turns to Edw. Burroughs p. 17. of his Works from whence he makes a Quotation but hath abused the Sence of the place by leaving out the two following Sentences and then the place is thus I wrote not as from Man whose Light is ONLY Natural and Carnal and doth ONLY make manifest Carnal Transgressions of a Carnal Law but as from the Eternal and Spiritual Light which doth make manifest Spiritual Transgressions of a Spiritual Law From this place John Stalham would fastly conclude that Edw. Burroughs called the Light of Christ Carnal which that he did not I think is very plain And accordingly Richard Hubberthorn p. 144. says That we do not allow any to call the Light of Christ Jesus Natural but the Light of Man by which Carnal Men do judge of Carnal Transgressions So that W. Penn and both these do allow the Natural Reason or Light of Man to be one thing and the Divine Revelations of the Holy Spirit another so that they do all plainly agree in the One Holy Spirit or Light of Christ Jesus given in measure to all Men to guide them and this W. Penn hath not opposed nor the reasonable Understanding of Man as this would falsly suggest He comes back to p. 29. where he would have W. Penn to Suppose that nothing but the Divine Light could reprove of Evil. But I have look'd and find no such Supposition and therefore no further notice need be taken of the Consequences he draws as depending on that Supposition Yet nevertheless I may add That as no one knows the things of God but by the Spirit of God so if Man do attend upon the Manifestation of this Holy Spirit it will discover to him all that is Reproveable and without which by any reason of his own he cannot make such Discovery and by its Power it can and if Man be Obedient it will enable him to turn from that which it does so Discover and Reprove him for This is that sure Basis upon which being fixed we easily reject all Guileful Pretences to the contrary And tho' this Man may have a great Opinion of his Wise Charming p. 24. yet I never understood that the Hissing of a Snake was Wise Charming Now if any go from the Spirit of God into Delusions is that reason sufficient why none shall depend upon the Guidance of the Spirit of God Because there have been innumerable Falsly pretended Miracles must we therefore believe no true Ones No the Effect it ought to have should be quite otherwise have others by Disobedience and leaving of their Guide fallen into Delusion let me therefore attend my Watch more closly have others by forsaking their True Guide the Holy Spirit been given up to believe Lies let me keep close to it that it be not so with me But if instead of this Men will pretend to subject the Unerring Spirit of God to be tried by the Erring Spirit of Man as it is not Scriptural so neither is it safe nay it cannot be safe if to the Spirit of Man they add all Study all meer Humane Endeavour all Communities Ordinances Histories or Humane Learning all these will not Poise the Ballance where the Spirit of God is wanting nor can any of these perform that excellent Office of the Spirit of Truth which our Saviour hath Infallibly Assured will lead into all Truth and when we have all Truth what Spiritual Good can we want And this destroys not the Freedom of Man's Will nor Understanding nor extinguishes his Humane Page 26 27. Reason but on the contrary exalts and enobles all the Powers and Faculties of the Mind So that it is utterly impossible for a Man under the Guidance of the Spirit of Truth to make God the Author of Sin Nor does this Principle arraign the Wisdom of God in his Ordinances but shews forth his Good Will to Men in that he has not only sent forth the Spirit of Truth but also sends forth his Servants guided by it to call the People into Obedience to it And thus God is pleased to work mediately and immediately Here in p. 29. he would seem to approve and congratulate W. Penn upon his Exposition of Justification but his Assent or Dissent we value not nor our selves for its sake but the Doctrine is true and hath from the first been professed by us But to remind him a little How is it possible for us to be Orthodox herein as he says we are and Heretical in the Articles which relate to Christ Jesus as God and as Man by and through whom Justification comes But Self-contradiction is no new thing to this Man He now numbers up in Page 30 31 32. divers things wherein he would fain have the Church and us agree they not being sufficient as he says for Separation This Man is of a very changeable Humour in his Title and for near all the Book we were Sad Hereticks but now he would have us Associates which if we will not be he gives a Threatning Advertisement that he will Trump up more Heresies upon us Well in that let him do as God shall permit but of two things he may be assured that we shall have no Communion with his Lies nor he true Peace in persisting in them FINIS BOOKS Printed and Sold by T. 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