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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

Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ This one spiritual Baptism into the Name of Jesus Christ is that which saves the Water being but a figure that Christ might be manifest to Israel who had divers Baptisms imposed on them until the time of Reformation but Christ the Substance being come the Shadows fly away And yet where ever any are commanded now by the same Spirit that commanded the Believers to be Baptized in the days past either for the furtherance of the Gospel or tryal of their Faith we judge them not But this obedience is very rare to be found and we could heartily desire that all would consider seriously whether Litteral sayings observed onely by outward reading hearing by the ear or inward impulses upon the heart by the Divine power are the motives unto obediences in this kind And if honesty and uprightness of heart may be heard we believe and know the many dead souls every where notwithstanding their Baptisms will be as so many witnesses against them by their groveling upon the earth as so many slain and killed men by the Letter while the Spirit 's quickenings have not been known in the true Baptism into death For we find by daily experiences that most men and women live like Pharaoh's lean kine onely to eat up the fat and to envy those that are not so lean-soul'd as themselves We believe also that as there is one true saving Baptism so is there one Bread or Body of Christ which all the Saints do feed upon and though they be many as to persons yet their Bread is but one and they all in it but one Bread And this we believe is the flesh that came down from heaven Joh. 6. 33. Though the outward Jews now as then murmur at him because he said I am the Bread which came down from heaven vers 41 42. But Christ vers 45. to stop their murmuring tells them that the knowledge of this mystery was only revealed unto them whom God and not man teacheth and no more than are taught of God can set seal and subscribe unto this truth in Jesus though we believe also that Jesus did take outward Bread and brake it and gave it to the Disciples as the Scripture saith and this was a figure of his Body that was to be pierced and broken upon the Tree and a shew to shew forth his death until he came And we believe he did arise again and appear unto his Disciples And all that believed were together and had all things common c. And they continuing daily with one accord in the Temple breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart praising God and having favour with all the People Act. 2. 44 45 46. 47. And we believe that the Apostle in 1 Cor. 11. 20. saith true where he saith When ye come together therefore in one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper And all that he speaks in that Chapter is not to perpetuate that outward breaking of Bread otherwise than as the Believers did that were filled with the Holy Ghost in singleness of Heart as before is said and yet we judge not those who break outward Bread and drink outward Wine being commanded so to do and put in remembrance thereby of the body and blood of Jesus Christ by the remembrancer the spirit of truth which is appointed by the Father to lead into all truth But to do it by imitation or tradition only as most do it if not all at this day we know it is not an offering unto God in righteousness neither do we believe this to be the communion of the body and blood of Christ and yet the eating of the flesh and drinking of the blood of Christ we believe man must know and witnesse or he hath no life in him Joh. 6. 53 54 55. And we believe that many are striving now in their Spirits as the Jews did vers 52. saying how can this man give us his flesh to eat And not onely the Jews but many of his disciples said This is an hard saying who can bear it vers 60. and at vers 63. he tells them It is the Spirit that quickens the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and they are Life and he that hears and understands these words that are Spirit and Life will not be offended at what I have spoken of the flesh and blood of Christ By the same Spirit and Grace we believe that Prayer is an Ordinance of God when performed by his Spirit in its words and not those which man's wisdom teacheth or without words by sighs and groans which cannot be uttered and these so often as the spirit it self pleaseth But the Form without the Spirit whether it be by words of other mens framing or words of a man 's own spirit according to his will time and manner this is not the Prayer that prevails with God And we believe there is none so weak and infirm but this Spirit profers its help at some time or other though man regardeth it not And the more man's mind is gathered within from all visibles the more he comes to be sensible of the movings and stirrings of this Spirit in its secret cryes to God answerable to the wants of that man or woman in whom it moves and cryes And by due watching thereunto we believe and know the Spirit of prayer and of adoption that cries unto God comes to be discerned and distinguished from a man 's own spirit and will We believe by the same gift of Grace that there are several Ministrations and several Operations according to 1 Cor. 12. and all by the same Spirit as before the Law and after the Law by Moses and after by John the Baptist and Christ and his Apostles and in all these the Ministration had acceptance with God through the management of the Spirit and its rejection and dislike of God for the want thereof And by this Spirit were the Scriptures given forth and did the holy men of God Speak Prophecy Preach and Pray as they were moved and for want of it the Letter did and doth kill And for the further appearance and pouring out of this Spirit answerable unto the work and service that God had for them to do they were to wait as Christ commanded his Disciples to do at Jerusalem to receive the Promise of the Father For by this Spirit he that speaks speaks as the Oracle of God And therefore as it was the practice of the People of God in old time to wait for the moving and stirring of this Spirit that they might speak as it gave them utterance in the evidence and demonstration thereof so do this People called Quakers now and according to its moving in their hearts they minister according to the signification of the Spirit whereby they understand both what and when to speak and when to be silent as also