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A35136	Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7217; ESTC R204876	16,180	24

who they are that minister and speak in their own wills above the Cross of Christ which the Apostle was careful always to be in subjection to lest he should make it void by speaking the words which man's wisdom teacheth and therefore as the Saints did so we do believe and therefore we speak and such Preaching and Speaking in faith as well as Praying in faith is acceptable unto God as his Worship and not otherwise And we further believe by the same spirit That the sum of all Religion according to truth and the signification of the word Religion is Man not at liberty in his will but bound again unto God by his having given to him by the light of Christ within the true sight and knowledge of himself as in himself as lost and undone for ever and from this sight a true sence to arise upon and remain with him from whence spring unutterable groans and crys unto God under the weight of the burden and wretchedness by reason of the body of sin and death and then when there was none to help or pitty in this state then is Mercy shewed in Christ the Arm of God which is revealed as an help neither seen nor known where how or when to come at it or meet with it And this begets in the heart of that man and woman in and unto whom it is thus revealed thanks and praises unto God for this gift and revelation of his Son in this needful time whom the soul sees to be the gift of eternal Love And we believe and know upon this love and faithfulness of God is founded built and established the everlasting Covenant whereby not onely all men may be saved for its ability but some shall be saved because of its prevalency which is not like to the Covenant which he made with our Fathers And although all mankind is not saved yet it is not because either of insufficiency in this Covenant or because of the weakness of the grace that appeares in and unto all men but because of man's will loving death and choosing his own delusions whereby his destruction is of himself and God clear of his blood in the free tender of his grace gift and striving of his Spirit within him For we know assuredly according to the Scriptures of Truth and experience of all souls that ever were truly converted to God that though by Grace man is saved not of himself but by the free gift yet as the old world did and those rebellious Jews spoken of Acts 7. who as did their Fathers so did they alwayes resist the holy Ghost so do men now And yet in the tender of this grace and striving of his Spirit the Lord is a God so hiding himself in the management of this striving and ministration of his spirit as if it wholly depended upon man's choice and consenting that man's will as to him is as it were free in rejecting or accepting Life and death being set before him whereby in the wisdom of God the propensity of his Nature as it came out of the hands of his Maker hath an advantage by this dealing of God to put forth it self so that man is as free in the choice as he is in the refusal of the tender of mercy and help and that with an equal indifferency as it appears to him in this state notwithstanding afterwards in the further growth in this grace and knowledge of Christ he sees clearly and convincingly that the Grace that wrought hiddenly from his sight and knowledge in the first working tender and ministration of God towards him gained his consent through its own prevalency in the Love of God by which sight and sence self comes to be abhorred and the free Love so admired that he knows from first to last all was of Grace and that free that self is not able to challenge any thing as due from what it had done but all of gift and yet as before with such an equal indifferency on man's account so that God may and will appear to be just both in condemning and saving and the Justifier freely of all that believe in Jesus the Light of the World Therefore let all take heed how they dislike this Ministration of God and striving of his Spirit in their hearts and consciences under colour and pretence of its insufficiency and therfore they will not come to him because his drawings and strivings are not so strong as they would have them to be looking for such an overpowering and irresistiblness as they are not able to withstand and gainsay lest such perish through a wilful neglect for want of stretching out their hand when the Lord holds out his and so they perish in the ditch with a vain expectation of further power or cry in their mouths Lord have mercy on us and so with the sluggard while they cry yet a little more slumber and folding of the hands to sleep their Garden is overgrown with weeds and their backs clothed with rags and they beg in harvest whilst others that have sown in tears not fainting do in due time reap in joy and not despising the crums that fell from the table nor the day of small things witness the presence of their Beloved come down into his Garden and walking among the Lillies Let these things be truly considered pondred and weighed in the true ballance of Light and Righteousness lest any soul perish through the false weight and measure so shall my soul rejoyce that any have escaped the Net of the Fowler through the discovery of the true Light and God have all the glory unto whom alone it belongs and man ashamed confounded his mouth stopped and he laid in the dust for ever and then shall my end be answered in writing these things THE END Concerning Perswasions in Matters of Religion THere is the Natural man and the Spiritual man and there are the Perswasions of each in and about matters of Religion There is the Perswasion of Reason and the Perswasion of Faith The Perswasion of Reason is that belief which man receives into his mind or heart from the exercise of the Reasoning Faculty and this Perswasion in Matters of Religion is but Man's Opinion or Judgement which how certain or infallible soever it appear to him yet may be shaken by a demonstration or evidence of an higher kind and nature The Perswasion of Faith is that Belief which the New-Creature receives into the renewed mind from the Evidence and Demonstration of the Spirit which openeth and manifesteth the things of the Spirit unto that mind which is begotten and renewed by it And this Perswasion is certain and infallible however it may be struck at and battered by the reasonings of the wise earthly part even in that very man whose heart is thus perswaded by the Light of the Spirit of God concerning the things of God's Kingdom Now the lowest Perswasion of Faith is higher and of a more noble nature than the highest Perswasion of

from the deep and true sence for then God out of the depths of his Love and Mercy could not but heal them and therefore lest the true Light should shine into them to give them the sensible knowledge of themselves and God should heal them the Devil as god of the world by the things of the world endeavours to blind the mind not the brain-knowledge but the hearty feeling sence within in the mind lest the Light within should so shine as God should heal them and all the busslings of Satan with his gifts are but to blind the mind within lest God should heal the soul that complains to him from the true sight and sence of his misery as in himself By this Grace and Gift within we believe that to us though in the world there be Lords many and Gods many there is but ONE GOD the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ witnessed within man only by the Spirit of Truth that manifests both the Father and the Son and yet these three are one and agree in one and he that honours the Father honours the Son that proceeds from him and he that denies the Spirit denies both the Father and the Son and is Anti-Christ but he that believes in the Spirit and is led by it is the Son of God Rom. 8. 14. As many as are the Sons of God are led by the Spirit of God We believe the Scriptures bear witness unto and testifie of Christ but they say the Witness of God is greater than them the Spirit it self bearing witness with our spirits that we are the Sons of God for it is not the Scriptures without the Spirit nor the Spirit contrary to the Scriptures but the Spirit 's discovering the Will of God in the heart or opening of the Scriptures in its own time and way and not in or by the will of man but as it self pleaseth who searcheth all things even the deep things of God and manifests them unto the soul which giveth the perfect sound and saving knowledge for said Christ the Spirit shall take of mine and shew them unto you And as holy men gave forth the Scriptures 2 Pet. 1. 21. so holy men and they only come truly to understand them and not proud or ungodly men because their hearts and lives do not answer the hearts and lives of those that gave them forth as face answereth face in a glass And this we believe to be the reason why so long preaching by men of corrupt minds who have and do handle the words deceitfully for selfish ends and filthy lucre sake hath brought forth so little fruit and been to so little purpose except to their purses and bellies for bad they believed and therefore spoken and stood in God's counsel they should have profited their hearers Jer. 23. 21 22 23. to the end Through this Gift we believe that Christ Jesus the Son of God was manifest in the flesh in the fulness of time And this we know by the same Spirit by which our Fathers believed he should come and Abraham saw his day by the same do we believe he is come and do see his day as also by the Prophets and Apostles Writings which twofold cord is not easily broken We believe also according to the Scriptures of truth that this same Jesus hath God highly exalted and given him a Name above every Name that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have Everlasting Life and that there is not another Name whereby man can be saved than this Name of Jesus Christ nor is Remission of Sins to be Preached by any other Name But as we do not believe that the outward letters syllables are that Name that are to be bowed to by the outward knee no more than the letters or syllables in the words God or Spirit seeing the 〈…〉 God who is a Spirit 〈…〉 45. 23. but that Name which saves is the Power and Arm of God that brings Salvation from Sin and makes every soul that names it to depart from Iniquity This is that Name which was preached and which is preached through Faith in which Name remission of sin is obtained Therefore was the outward word Jesus given him as his outward name Thou shalt call his name JESUS for he shall save his People from their Sins Mark for he shall save c. So that which saves is the Name which is to be believed in which is that Arm of God that brings Salvation when no eye pitties neither is there any to help the Power of God that then saves is that Grace that comes from the fulness of Christ the Saviour And without this vertue Christ and Jesus are but empty names 1 Cor. 12. 3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost We believe also that this Jesus died for or because of Sin and rose again for the Justification of those that believe in him as well as to manifest to all the world that he was the Son of God and that he thereby spoiled Principalities and Powers and triumphed over them openly and led captivity captive in his own person yet we believe and know by his Grace in our hearts that as his name Jesus without vertue and Power is but an empty word so his Dying without man's Conformity to his Death or being planted into the likeness thereof or being crucified with Christ as saith the Scripture Rom. 6. 2 3 4 5 6. Gal. 2. 20. will not profit man as unto the salvation of his soul no more than the naming of his outward name Jesus doth at this day make people to depart from iniquity For we believe and are sure that man must dye inwardly as well as Christ died outwardly and must be put to death in his flesh as Christ was in his for he that is in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8. 8. neither cease from sin but he that is dead is freed from sin Rom. 6. 7. And yet mans dying unto sin and the root and principle of it in himself is so far from making void Christ's Death in his own person that it establisheth it to all those ends and purposes for which it was intended of the Father As the cures which the Physician doth manifest and establish his skill and ability so doth mans dying unto sin and self and living unto God manifest and establish the virtue and power of Christ's Death for as man manifests his being risen with Christ by his seeking the things that are above Col. 3. 1 2. so doth he manifest his knowledge of the Death of Christ by his being crucified with Christ and bearing about in his body the dyings of the Lord Jesus for as it is not an outward belief gathered from the letter that will change the heart and life though the judgment and opinion it may so is it not a belief from the history or letter only that can give man a saving knowledge of the Death of Christ but he must have the

same glory and power of the Father in measure working in him there to beget Faith in his heart that he may believe unto Salvation from his own filthiness and righteousness as well as confess with his mouth Rom. 10. and must have that Spirit in him quickning his mortal body as well as to believe that it was in Christ and raised up him from the dead Rom. 8. 11. And this man whoever he be bond or free that thus believes the Death of Christ and its satisfaction to God as well as its usefulness to man cannot make it void nor divide it and its virtue upon the soul that thus knows it but will say here is a dying man witnessing the Death of Christ and nevertheless the same man living with Christ and concluding if Christ had not died man must have perished in his sin this being the way found out by God to recover him whereby he knows Christ and him crucified and what the preaching of the Cross of Christ is which is foolishness to them that perish but to them that are saved the Wisdom of God and the Power of God 1 Cor. 1. 18. By this Gift of God in our hearts we further believe That Christ Jesus rose again from the dead according unto the Scriptures and sits at God's right hand in a glorious body and we believe that our low estates and humbled bodies shall be made like unto his glorious Body through the working of his mighty Power whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself and that this mortality shall put on immortality For though we believe that Christ Jesus hath lighted every man with his Light whereby man may come to know himself lost and undone as before is said yet therefore is not every man saved though the Grace that appears to all men is sufficient in it self but some have the Grace of God bestowed on them in vain not liking to retain God in their knowledge though something within them shewes them what is good but they reject the Counsel of God within or against themselves to their own destruction Luk. 7. 30. see the Margent and yet it doth not follow that the Grace is insufficient of it self no more than it follows that Christ's Death is insufficient because he tasted death for every man and yet every man is not saved Neither doth Regeneration or the believing in the Light of Christ within make void the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem no more than believing the Scripture-testimony without concerning Christ's Death makes void the work of Regeneration and Mortification within but as the Apostle saith in another case so say I in this For as the man is not without the woman neither is the woman without the man in the Lord even so is not the Death and Sufferings of Christ without at Jerusalem to be made void and of none effect by any thing within neither doth the Light within make that of none effect without but both in the Lord answers his will for though there is and may be a knowledge and belief of what Christ did and suffered without the Gates in his own body upon the Tree and yet sin alive in the heart and the work of Regeneration not known yet it cannot be so where the Light within is believed on and obeyed so as to have its perfect work in the heart to regenerate and make all things new and to be of God this man can never make void what Christ hath done and suffered without And yet this new-birth or Christ formed within and dwelling in the heart by Faith doth not limit or consine Christ to be only within and not without also but both within and without according to the good pleasure of the Father to reveal and make him known for he fills all things and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him and yet is he at God's right hand far above all Heavens in a glorious body And we also believe the Resurrection of the Just and Unjust the one to Salvation and the other to Condemnation according unto the Judgment of the great Day and then shall every Seed have its own body according to 1 Cor. 15. 36 37 38. which we verily believe for if the dead arise not we are of all men most miserable But because we dare not be so foolishly inquisitive as to say With what bodies shall they arise therefore do some say we deny both the Resurrection of the Body of Christ and of all that are or shall be dead But this also is false for every man shall be raised in his own order but Christ the first fruits 1 Cor. 15. 23. And we believe they shall be raised with the same bodies so far as a natural and spiritual corruptible and incorruptible terrestrial and celestial can be the same We further believe according unto the Scriptures concerning Faith that that Faith is only true which is God's gift and hath Christ Jesus the Power of God for its author and object and is distinguished from the dead Faith by its fruits for though in description and definition they may carry a resemblance yet in nature are as different as a living man is from a dead which wants not form or shape but life and power So saith the Apostle James As the body without a spirit is dead so is Faith without Works even so is that Faith which stands in the wisdom of words and not in the Power of God by the one man is kept in captivity to the world and the things of it but by the other he hath victory over the world 1 Joh. 5. 4. and the Seal and Witness thereof in his own heart whereby it is purified and God is seen for the pure in heart see God Mat. 5. 8. This Faith differs men now and their Worships as it did Cain and Abel for by Faith Abel offered a more excellent Sacrifice than Cain Heb. 11. By this living Faith Abel saw beyond the Sacrifice unto Christ the first-born of God beyond the firstling of the flock which he offered and therefore God had respect unto Abel and his Offering but God rejected Cain and his Offering though he had Faith to believe it to be his duty yet sticking in the Form and not flying on the wing of Faith unto Christ the One Offering he missed the mark as all have done ever since that have gone in Cain's way of worshipping as well as killing men about Worship But we believe that Faith to be onely true and saving that slyes over self-righteousness as well as filthiness unto the Fountain of Life in Christ which Faith hath nothing of man in it but is as the breath of Life by which the Soul lives not a bare assent to the truth of a proposition in the natural understanding but the Soul 's cleaving unto God out of a naturalness between Christ and the Soul and so lives rather by relation than bare credit or desperate adventure and hazard not looking at

Truth 's Principles OR Those Things about DOCTRINE and WORSHIP which are most surely believed and received amongst the People of GOD called QUAKERS VIZ. Concerning the Man CHRIST his Sufferings Death Resurrection Faith in his Blood the imputation of his Righteousness Sanctification Justification c. Written to stop the mouth of Clamour and to inform all who desire to know the Truth as it is in Jesus By the Servant of the Lord John Crook To which is added Somewhat Concerning the Difference between the Perswasions of REASON and the Perswasions of FAITH LONDON Printed in the Year 1662. TRUTH' 's PRINCIPLES OR Those things about Doctrine and Worship which are most surely believed and received amongst the People of God called QUAKERS MAny are the Reports that are abroad concerning this People not only as to their Practices and Deportments but also as to their Doctrines and Beliefs The former time having in a great measure resolved and worn out as being the refuge of lyes for the ignorant and unrighteous to fly unto but that stormy and wintry appearance is well nigh over and gone because the Sun is so far risen and the true Light so shineth that most begin to see that those reports were but lyes and scandals raised as Fig-leaves to cover the nakedness of other Professions that begun so manifestly to appear through the Light that shined in these Peoples Lives and Conversations But though the first be gone yet the latter still sticks with many as not knowing what they hold as to Doctrine some saying they deny the Scripture and the Resurrection of the body and all Ordinances with the Man Christ and his Death and Sufferings and imputation of his Righteousness and faith in his Blood c. Wherefore for the satisfaction of all that would willingly be resolved and know the Truth as it is in Jesus I have written this short Account of their Faith and Belief and if it were possible to stop the mouth of clamorous tongues before Sentence be given against them by some signal stroke of the Lord from Heaven which he will undoubtedly in his appointed time reveal and make manifest to the trembling of all hearts concerned therein and tingling of all ears that shall hear thereof when it shall be said to them The holy shall be holy still and be that is filthy let him be filthy still Rev. 22. 11. We believe that the God of all Grace hath given a measure of Grace or some manifestation of his Spirit and Light thereof unto all men according unto these Scriptures John 1. 9. Tit. 2. 11. 1 Cor. 12. 7. Nehem. 9. 20. and experiences of all men who at some time or other do feel something in their Hearts and Consciences that doth lust against the flesh and the flesh against it and that these two are contrary the one to the other one lusting after evil which is evil and the other after good which is good the one carnal the other spiritual the one from the Earth the other from Heaven Gal. 5. 16 17. We believe By this Gift Grace and Inspiration of the Almighty man only can come to know the true God truly What he is and how he works in the Hearts and Consciences of People to regenerate them and make them bear his Image according unto 1 Cor. 1. 19 20 21. Luke 10. 21. and experiences of all that ever were regenerate and born again We believe that all the Errors and mistakes about God and the things relating to his Kingdom sprang and arose from mens wandring from this Gift of God into their own Imaginations whereby though they thought themselves wise yet they became fools and erred their foolish hearts being darkned according to Rom. 1. not knowing the Scriptures nor the Power of God as it is written Mat. 22. 29. We believe and know that this Gift and Grace of God appears in and unto all men that all may be without excuse accusing for the evil and excusing for the good according to Rom. 2. 15 16. shewing unto man what is good and reproving of him in his own Conscience for the evil whether thoughts words or deeds and that this reproof of Instruction is the way of Life Prov. 6. 23. We believe that as the true God and Eternal Life is known only by the light of this Gift and Grace according unto the Scriptures from which Light and Spirit of God came the Scriptures both of the Old and New Testament as it is written 2 Pet. 1. 21. so can they only be read as truly to be believed fulfilled and practised in the Light and Power of the same and all that are out of this Spirit must needs be ignorant and unlearned in the Apostle's sense who wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction as it is written for Peter and John were unlearned men outwardly not knowing letters but inwardly read in the knowledge of this Light and Spirit of God and wrested not the SCRIPTURES Acts 4. 13. 2 Pet. 3. 16. We believe according to the Scriptures 2 Cor. 4. 3. that wheresoever the Power of God is not known within there the Gospel is hid and unknown unto them that are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them and God should heal them because it is only by the Light of Christ the Power of God that the Creature comes truly to see himself in his lost and undone estate from which sight ariseth the true sence in the heart of the Creature that makes him cry out of his wretchedness by reason of the body of sin and death which necessitates him to look out for a Saviour whom God manifesteth in and by the same Light that shines in the heart on purpose to give the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ God's Image whereby God healeth the soul And therefore doth the Devil the god of the world strive so much by the gifts of the pleasures profits vanities and lusts that are in the world which he presenteth to men and women now as he did to Christ in the dayes of his flesh when he shewed to him all the world with its glory which glory is the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life what-ever may make this life happy as it were in the things that may pride it or lift it up to sit as Queen And as men and women take and receive these gifts from the god of this world their minds are blinded because they believe not in the Light which sheweth them the vanities of all the gifts of the god of this world which gifts the Devil knows if they be received will so blind the minds of them that receive them that they will not come to be sensible in the true Light of their lost conditions so as to cry unto God