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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60564	The Quaker disarm'd, or, A true relation of a late publick dispute held at Cambridge by three eminent Quakers against one scholar of Cambridge ; with a letter in defence of the ministry and against lay-preachers ; also several quæries proposed to the Quakers to be answered if they can.	Smith, Thomas, 1623 or 4-1661.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Allen, William, d. 1686.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing S4227; ESTC R18877	22,488	24

B. Saviour yet was not by any thought fit to be termed an Apostle till he had a speciall call to that office Act 1.23 29. 2ly Considering that Ioseph sirnamed Barsabas was a witness to all this as well as Matthias yet never exercised the Apostleship though it seems the Church of Christ esteemed him fit for it because he was not ordained thereto ●nymore then many others who where educated in the schole of Christ as well ●s the best 30. 3ly Considering that the most Blessed Iesus himself the only begotten son of God often profest that he came not without being sent Io. 17.8.18 Nor preacht any thing but what he heard nor did any thing but what he was commanded and this in a time when there was confessedly very great necessity of Reformation And then with what face other then brazen can any man now justifie the doing these things of himself who neither pretends that he is the Son of God nor yet that he seeth such a necessity of Reformation 31. Lastly considering that not only those Christians who lived neerest the times of our Saviour who probably might know more of his institution than t is possible we at this distance should but all succeeding ages for 1600. Years have had a Clergy and a discipline Certainly Sir we have sins as great as any of them the old sins to mortifie I heartily wish to God we had no new ones too then unheard of and therefore certainly we stand in as much need of Physicians as any of them did of all the blessed remedies and wholesome medicines against them which our good God hath appointed 32. I might adde many other places of Scripture as 2. Cor. 5.19 God hath reconciled us to himself by Christ Jesus and given to us the Ministery of reconciliation Now then we are Embassadours for Christ Wherein I entreat you to Observe that he saith committed to us the ministry of reconcilation here then is an appropriate Ministry not common to all the vulgar We are Embassadours T is limited to some few by vertue of a commission All cannot be Embassadours The Church is a body and all cannot be ears or eyes 1. Cor. 12.14.15.16 33. But I must not omit the answer which your friend made to Rom. 10.15 he said he was sent by the Church of Christ at Bedford To which I replyed 1. That that which he called the Church of Christ at Bedford could not send him or give him power to preach c. Because nothing can give that which it self hath not That Church consisting only of women and a few Lay-men is not in indeed a Church of Christ none of them hath power to preach or administer the Sacraments and therefore none of them can give the Tinker power to preach and administer the Sacraments 34. 2. The Church of Antioch was in all probability very numerous in those dayes when miracles were ordinary and three thousand were converted in one place at one sermon and yet in all the Scripture you shall not find by any word the least sign that those many people who were thus converted at Antioch did joyn together in Church-duties and ordinances as the Lords supper which the primitive and best Christians received every day Act. 2.42.46 and the people of your Town have not desired as I hear these fourteen years untill Barnabas and Paul had been with them When these two who were ordained Ministers of the word came unto them then and not till then were the Christians at Antioch termed a Church Act. 11. from the 20th verse to the 27th 35 I confess 't is both lawful and laudable for private Christians to endeavour the conversion of any that be indeed Infidels or Unbelievers to the truth of the Gospel or to teach children or servants the Catechisme c. and if this Tink●● had done no more staid at Bedford and taught his Family the Lords Prayer the Apostles Creed the Ten Commandments and the Doctrine of the Sacraments which things few of his followers in these parts can endure to hear of or if he had followed S. Pauls advice 1 Thes. 4.11 studied to be quiet and done his own business I should have nothing to have said against him 'T is lawful for private Christians to do what they can to convert Jews or Turks or Heathens or Atheists that is to prepare stones for the building of the Church as the antient Ecclesiastical stories tell us that Frumentius and AEdesius did in India and the captive maid in Iberia but after they be converted after they are baptized to unite these together and make up a building to assemble them in an Ecclesiastical bodie to usurp the Pulpit and that power which our Saviour distributed when he said All power is given to me both in Heaven and Earth go ye therefore and preach This is such a piece of presumption as we read not in the Acts of the Apostles nor in any other Ecclesiastical story that I have seen that any of the primitive Christians were ever guilty of But all this your T. hath been guilty of and much more For he hath not only intruded into the Pulpits in these parts and caused the people of your Town to hate their lawful Minister Mr. Iohn Ellis sen but as he told me encouraged them to proceed so far as to cudgel him and break open the Church doors by violence I wonder what example or precept in the Scripture he hath for this When he hath read Tit. 3.2 I desire him to see his doom 1 Pet. 4.15 where {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is one that thrusts himself in to preach in another mans parish against his consent is reckoned by the H. Ghost among no honester men then a Thief and a Murderer This will be a sad Text for him when the books shall be opened before him at the great Judgement day 36. And here I give you under my hand what I professed to the T 's face that if I could see any reason to draw me out of the true ancient Catholick and Apostolick Church into which I was baptized whereof the Church of England is the soundest part as I am ready to make appear against the Papists and all other new and old Schismaticks and Hereticks their Confederates If I say I could see any reason to draw me out of that Church into your Schisme who encourage the Tinker to preach I see not what should stop me from running into the worst Sect in the world from being an Anabaptist or Ranter or Quaker or Antiscripturist or what not 37 Give me leave to tell you a storie you gave the Tinker leave to tell you several of things done at Bedford T is out of S. Augustines Notes on Iohn 1.2 3. All things were made by him S. Austin saith that a Manichee another being troubled with Flies and disputing one of them said he thought that our good God could not be the Creator of such troublesome Insects Why then replied the