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A54243	Truth further clear'd from mistakes being two chapters out of the book entituled, Primitive Christianity reviv'd : plainly acknowledging the benefit accruing by the death and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of mankind, together with a comparison of the principles of the people called Quakers, and the perversions of their opposers, by way of postscript / by W.P.; Primitive Christianity reviv'd. Selections	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1698 (1698)	Wing P1391; ESTC R33341	12,151	50

of Sin cannot be obtained 1 John 3. 19 20 21. Rom. 8. 13 14. Joh. 3. 19 20. Rom. 8. 2 16. Gal. 6. 8. 2. Thess 2. 13. XI Because we make Evangelical Obedience a Condition to Salvation and works by the Spirit an Evidence of Faith and a holy Life both Necessary and Rewardable Tit. 3. from vers 3. to 9. Tit. 2. 14. Jam. 2. 22. XII When we say that in some respects Christ was not our Sacrifice but Example and that his Obedience to his Father doth not Excuse ours but as he abode in his Father's Love by Keeping his Commandments we must follow his Blessed Example John 15. 9 10. XIII From our pleading for a Purification and Perfection from Sin agreeable to the Testimony of the holy Scriptures on this side the Grave through the pure Workings of the Holy and Perfect Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ Mat. 5. 48. Mat. 19. 21. 2 Cor. 13. 11. Col. 1. 28. Tit. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 22 23. XIV Because we say with the Apostle That Men ought to Pray Preach and Sing with the Spirit and that no Man can Rightly worship GOD without the Preparation by and Assistance of his holy Spirit and that we ought to wait to feel It for that end and that other Worship is Formal and Carnal Rom. 8. 26. 1 Cor. 14. 15. Prov. 16. 1. Luk. 24. 49. Acts 1. 4. Acts 2. 1. Psal 39 2 3. XV. From our denying the Resurrection of the same Natural and Corruptable Body and declining to be Inquisitive and Critical about what Body we shall rise with according to the Caution of the Apostle therein leaving it to the Lord to give us a Body as pleaseth him 1 Cor. chap. 15. 2 Cor. 5. 1 2. Their Adversaries Perversions OUr Adversaries are pleased to make us to deny and undervalue the Scriptures as Not to he a Rule in any Respect tho' our Books plentifully shew we confess them to be the Next and Secondary Rule to the holy SPIRIT and that we ever chuse to express our Belief of Christian Faith and Doctrine in the Terms thereof They also say We prefer our own Books before them while we Love Honour and use Them above all the Books in the World and refuse to express matters of Faith in other Terms than what are Expresly in Scripture or so agreeable as to leave no just ground for any doubt of our Respect and Regard to them Such as desire to lessen the Credit of our Perswasion with sober People Represent us to deny the Trinity at large and in every sense tho' we only reject School-Terms and Philosophical Definitions as Unscriptural if not Unsound and as having a Tendency to Fruitless Controversie instead of Edification and Holiness among Christians We have been Uncharitably Represented by some as if we denied All outward Means or Contradicted our selves in the Use of them which they may as well charge against the Apostle John in Asserting the Sufficiency of the Anointing People have been told by our Adversaries That we believe every Man has Whole GOD and Whole CHRIST in him and consequently so many Gods and so many Christs Tho' we Assert no more but the very Language of the holy Ghost in the Scriptures of Truth and mean no more by it than that Christ by his Light and Spirit dwelleth in the hearts of his People It has been inferred that we hold that Christ is in and to Wicked Men as he is in and to his Saints tho' he is a Condemner to the One and a Comforter to the other Our Opposers will have it That all who have this Light must consequently be Good Men whether they Obey it or no or else the Light is Insufficient Some are not ashamed to tell the World in our Name That Christ was never visible as to his Bodily Appearance and consequently that we deny his Coming in the Flesh above sixteen hundred years ago tho' his coming then is an Article of our Christian Belief We are represented to Deny or Undervalue the Coming of Christ without us and the Force and Efficacy of his Death and Sufferings as a Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World tho' we only Deny the Benefit thereof to such who by Living in Sin instead of Dying to Sin and Pleasing instead of Denying themselves to please GOD Deprive Themselves thereof Some unworthily conclude we disown Christ as a Satisfactory Sacrifice in his Death and Sufferings and as if we did not believe he died for the Sins of the Whole World or that he Carried away Sin and Sealed Redemption in his Blood to as many as Rightly Believe and that we expect both to be Forgiven and Accepted of GOD not for his sake but our own Works Which Suggestions we utterly detest and disown It is inferred against us That we deny Justification at all in any sense by the Death and Sufferings of the Propitiatory Sacrifice of Christ for the Sins of the whole World Than which nothing can be more Uncharitable Untrue or Unjust Since we Never did nor can believe the Remission of Sins in any other Name than that of our Lord Jesus Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself up once for all an Holy and Acceptable Sacrifice to GOD. Our Opposers would make People believe we hope to be sav'd by our own Works and not by Grace which is the Gift of GOD and so make them the Meritorious Cause of our Salvation and consequently Papists They will have us to mean and venture to say for us that we believe our Lord Jesus Christ to be in all things but an Example and in no rerespect our Sacrifice We are made so presumptious as to assert the FULNESS of all Perfection and Happiness attainable in this Life Ignorance or Envy suggests against us That if GOD will not compel us by his Spirit he must go without his Worship We are made to Deny the Resurrection of any Body however Spiritual or Glorified and even of Eternal Rewards too Which if True we are of all People the most miserable THus Sober Reader thou hast some Taste of the Usage we have received in a more abundant manner at their hands who have Undertaken to give an Account of our Belief to the World that it has been very hard for People to see us through those Disguises that Interest Ignorance or Malice hath put upon us But 't is our desire for thy own Good as well as our Defence that GOD would please by the Light of his dear Son to give thee a Clear and Effectual Sight of the Dispensation of his Heavenly Truth in the Inward Parts which he hath blessed us withal Viz. the Revelation and Setting up of the Kingdom of CHRIST in the Hearts and Souls of the Sons of Men where Sin and Self have so much and so long Prevailed that thou mayest come to be a Witness of us Goodness and thy Soul with ours Admire Adore and for ever Praise his most Glorious and Everlasting NAME through his dear and Well-Beloved SON and our REDEEMER for He is Worthy Worthy Worthy World without End Dublin the 26th of the 3d Month 1698. WILLIAM PENN THE END