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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

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

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