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truth_n	holy_a	spirit_n	way_n	4,450	5	4.7553	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65836	The apostate incendiary rebuked, and the people called Quakers vindicated from Romish hirarchy and imposition in a serious examination of VVilliam Mucklows Liberty of conscience asserted against imposition, but proved a liberty which is in Christ Jesus, and against unity and order in his church / by one whose rejoycing is the testimony of a good conscience toward God and man, G. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1673 (1673)	Wing W1890; ESTC R39076	20,163	27

our selves to every man's Conscience in the Sight of God and therein are we manifested yet that I may loose nothing of Truth 's Testimony To the first I affirm That the true Church is in the true Faith that is in God and we must either believe thus as the true Church believes or else it were but both a Folly and Hypocrisie to profess our selves Members thereof this man hath treacherously betrayed both his own Conscience and Testimony who while he would seem to own the Church of Christ as a Member of her yet tells the World It is a most dangerous Position that we are to believe as the Church believes Oh Treacherous Enemy to the Church of Christ. 2dly Is it so dangerous that this Church or universal Body of Christ cannot err Whenas the Church signifies the Elect and Christ implies an Impossibility that the very Elect should be deceived Mat. 24. 24 Or that the Gates of Hell should prevail against his Church and promiseth his Presence to the End of the World Were it either reasonable or just to conclude the whole Body or Church of Christ is liable to err because some particular Members may Observe the Darkness and perverse Spirit of this Apostate and Accuser of not only the Brethren but the whole Church for he states not this Charge against a false Application made of the said Positions by the Church of Rome but against the Positions themselves as being destructive and dangerous and as asserted concerning the Church not this nor that particular Church Congregation or Assembly but it s the Church his Quarrel lies against 3dly He is even also against the Church having Power to bind and to loose though this was a certain Priviledge given of Christ Jesus unto the Church who in him received a living Sence of both Judgment and Mercy even to bind and to loose by the Power of the holy Ghost given unto her see Mat. 18. 18 Joh. 20 22 23. If it must needs be accounted dangerous to assert this then it s dangerous to confess the power of Christ that is in the true Church the man hath greatly wronged and out faced his own Conscience 4thly If he will not hear the Church let him be to thee as a Heathen man c. what is it but abominable Pride for any one especially that professeth himself a Member of the true Church to Refuse to hear her or submit to her judgment when demonstrated for she must needs have both the infallible Spirit and true Judgment if every living Member pertake thereof he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his and God is come in ten Thousand of his Saints to judge the Ungodly and the Saints shall judge the World and doth not W. M. profess the Spirit of Christ that he hath it Yet tells the Word It is a Romish Position destructive and dangerous to assert that the Church hath alwayes the infallible Spirit that is the Spirit of Christ but did not Christ promise the holy Spirit the Comforter to his Church saying He shall abide with you forever and is not this infallible and the Church's Judgment therefore of Value Oh how sadly hath this Opposer violated his own Conscience perverted the right Wayes of God and abused the pretious Testimony of Truth And seeing his Charge is so high against us for asserting those four Positions afore-said on the behalf of the Church and that they are both Romish Destructive and of a most dangerous Consequence it naturally follows that he deems it not dangerous nor destructive for him to assert the contrary namely 1. That we are not to believe as the Church believes but rather as W. Mucklow and his Brother J. Pennyman believe seeing that they have assumed a Jurisdiction over the Church and a Power to judge her 2. That the Church can err is fallible or is liable to be deceived and apostatize as he questions us 3. That she hath no such Power as to bind and to loose Wherein he sets his Judgment above Christ's in Opposition to his express Promise to his Church 4. That the Church hath not alwayes the infallible Spirit which is Christ's and therefore it is no Pride but great Humility in W. M. and J. P. as being the lowly Ones not to submit to the Church in matter of Judgment So that at this Rate they will claim a Superiority and Preheminence above the Church which heretofore they have owned and confessed to the Power of God in her as if this had the Infallible Spirit when the Church wants it if this be not a Head-ship and Usurpation a degree higher then the Pope himself pretends to let all intelligent Readers judge is so be the Pope pretends to an Infallibility not as in a Separation from the Church but as professing Unity with her still though he be really Anti-christian in his usurping the Headship that he doth and so are these Men who like evil Spies have brought Evil Reports upon the good Land and despise the Church of God even his People called Quakers contrary to their first Love Testimony and Conviction As for W. M. his Addition to his Queries it contains both apparent Untruths Folly and Confusion against the Church of Christ implying the Churches Apostacy Declension or Fall from what was testifyed in the beginning among us which is as good Doctrine as to tell us that Christ's Spouse Bride or the Lamb's Wife is become an Adulteress where then is the Church's Security or Care taken over her by the Head But this Man himself is fallen and not the Church nor Ministry in it though most grosly slandered in the Spirit of the Hat which J. P. pretended in publick he would prove but instead thereof exhibited divers Articles against particular Persons to prove that our Preachers and Leaders are not so infallible as they pr●tend to be which was much besides and short of the slanderous Charge given in the Spirit of the Hat p. 43. But how infallible they ever pretended themselves to be he told not he was not so ingenuous did we ever preach up meerly our selves as Infallible or pretend Infallibility any otherwise then as instructed by the Spirit of Christ which is Infallible Or did we ever place it upon human Understanding as meer Men but upon that divine Understanding that God giveth But these Apostates judge others from their own Darkness and evil Thoughts and therein render the Body as divided from the Head and rent to peices within it self which is that the Devil the old Divider hath sought and now sets his Agents on Work to make the World believe a Lye viz. That he hath made such Division in the Church as where W. M. saith In the Beginning Christ within us was then to be Head but now the Body without us A manifest Slander against the Body of Christ never such a Doctrine was preached or owned among us That now the Body without us is to be the Head and not Christ as