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A Letter to Mr. Robert Bridgman, George Keith's trophy, in answer to his reasons for leaving the Quaqers [sic]
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A LETTER TO Mr. Robert Bridgman George Keith's TROPHY In ANSWER to his REASONS For leaving the QVAQERS Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1700. A LETTER to Mr. Robert Bridgman in Answer to his Reasons for leaving the Quakers SIR hearing you had publish'd your Reasons why you left the Quakers and joyned to the Church of England I was desirous of seeing them because I wanted to be satisfied whether you and your Master were all in one Tale or whether you had any farther Discoveries to make of the Quakers Heretical Principles than he had done before for I considered Mr. Keith's Station whilst with them was with his Boys and his Adversaries which were many I confess both of the Church of England and Dissenters and with the most Noted and Learned amongst them Now yours being more amongst the trading Part or common Sort I thought you would have attack'd them in the Flank and Rear whilst your Captain was engaged in the Front and to tell you the Truth your coming over to the Church of England was much more observed by thinking People than Mr. Keith for all know or may reasonably judge the Reason of his Revolt but you having not that Temptation not Provocation I expected something more remarkable than what Mr. Hicks Mr. Faldo Taylor Jenner and Mr. Trepidantium c. had for many Years told us But instead of so doing I begin to Question your Sincerity as well as his doubting you go about to delude the World making People believe you have great Heresies to lay to their Charge which upon Examination is nothing like it Now pray tell me honestly whether you are not hired by the Quakers to take this way to blacken them by Fiction that they may appear White in Reality and indeed 't is to be doubted whether both your Master and you too have not turn'd Deserters for no other Reason than only to betray the Church into the Hands of the Army of Abaddon when a Convenient Time shall present I cannot find any thing in your Reasons to be free with you that makes against the Quakers save those two Points on which you have hitch'd them viz. Shaking the Two grand Pillars of Christianity Baptism and the Supper and that you should esteem it matter of Sorrow and Shame to you to be ignorant of these Fundamentals all the while you were amongst the Quakers is very unaccountable when no Man from the first day of his turning Quaker for near Fifty Years past to this day ever believed them to be Fundamentals so that it is not a new Discovery either your Master or you have made that the Quakers deny the Sacraments since they did always so from the first and yet that only is the thing on which you have the Advantage on them As for your other Fundamentals Sir they have the confidence to give you the Lye perhaps you will say They are not to be believed because they mean not what they say and they say and unsay and do and undo But Sir I think it will not become you thus to treat them since they may with as good Reason retort it on you who have been a sayer and unsayer and written for them and now against them which shews however Erroneous they are 't is not fit to credit you or your Master who are ever in the right in your own Eyes in the present Tense when you are both for and against To tell you the Truth in my Opinion you make too great haste out of one infallible Chair into another you were so when Quakers you are so now ye oppose the Quakers the Church was with you a Den of Thieves now 't is a Holy Place you were Sincere then and said what you said in the Name of God you are sincere now â—ou say tho' you have left out the Name of God in â—hich I think you do well because of the Text. Now â—ow long you will see much Beauty and Glory and â—ertue in the Church of England we know not and why 〈◊〉 should trust you now ye have through Disgust turnâ—â— to the Church any more than before I cannot see â—â—ly this I will add That now you are in the Family â—ou have a better opportunity to Fire the House than when you could not come within the Doors But Sir I have a mind to be a little more particular in examining your Reasons for to be free with you I doubt you have said more than is true against the Quakers to excuse your as they call it Apostacy for otherwise they say your first Page is your own Case c. and are sorrowfully affected that a Man of that Sense you have thought your self of should be Ignorant of those great Truths they hold and ever did of which it seems You your Wife and some more in Huntingdon-shire were Ignorant the which if true I must confess you ought to be both ashamed of and sorrowful for But if you say so of your selves to Reproach others that were better Learned 't is highly base To begin then with the Doctrine of the Trinity of which you say you were and Insinuate the Quakers are Ignorant That they believe the Doctrine of the Trinity as it is expressed or implyed in the sacred Scriptures the many Books and Pamphlets formerly and lately published by them abundantly prove as hereafter is shewed so that your Insinuation is either implacably Malicious against them or else as I said before you juggle together and your part is to over-Charge them that they may have the opportunity to prove themselves Orthodox 2. The Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ none seem to be more hearty in acknowledgment to the Truth thereof than they and to be just to all Men I must needs say I see no more reason to disbelieve them when they so positively affirm it than any other Man for pray do you or your Master believe those Truths Nay do the Churâ—â— of England believe them You will answer in the Affirmâ—tive I ask again what Demonstration can you give me that you do believe it If you confidently affirm it I may if I please to follow your Example as confidently deny it Now the Quakers say yea as well as you and why their yea is not so good as your nay I cannot see In their Conversation their yea will pass and why it should not in Religion is strange to me Now that they do affirm it I prove hereafter and then unless you know the Thoughts of their Hearts are contrary to their Words it must needs be highly dishonourable and uncivil in you to insinuate such things against them 3. The Satisfaction and Atonement made by his Christ's Obedience and Death on the Cross 4. His Resurrection and Ascension 5. His remaining in our Nature at the right Hand of God in the Glory of his Father our Head High Priest and Intercessor 6. The Faith and full Perswasion of his last and outward Appearance to Judge