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A40785 Quakerism no Christianity Clearly and abundantly proved, out of the writings of their chief leaders. With a key, for the understanding their sense of their many usurped, and unintelligible words and phrases, to most readers. In three parts. By John Faldo. Faldo, John, 1633-1690. 1673 (1673) Wing F302; ESTC R214630 219,760 403

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of whom all them that were saved came by their salvation yet their state was not in a strict sense Christian nor the Law and Administration under which they lived and to which they subjected Christianity which I shall confirm by some essential exceptions Christianity necessarily includes the faith and belief of Christ already come a Christ crucified that died rose again from the dead is ascended c. Without Controversie great is the Mystery of Godliness God was manifest in the flesh justified in the spirit believed on in the World received up into Glory 1 Tim. 3. 16. This was Christian Godliness But we preach Christ crucified to the Jewes a stambling block this Christ as come and crucified was the main basis of the Gospel and Christianity Christianity necessarily includes the belief of that particular and numerical man Christ Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary and was of the seed of Abraham according to the flesh to be the Christ of God that was promised to come in due time I said therefore unto you that you shall die in your sins for if ye believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins John 8. 24. Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made the same Iesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 3. 6. These were new Articles of their Creed without the belief of which they were such as had nothing to do with Christ as their Mediator Again the whole frame of the Administration was ●…red from Moses to Christ even the man Christ Jesus as well as God hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son Heb. 1. 1 And Moses verily was faithful in all his House as a servant for a Testimony of those things which were to be spoken after but Christ as a Son over his own House Heb. 3. 5. We have now nothing to do with Moses Law as such and also the manner of Administration which is not in a multitude of carnal observances types and resemblances but in that way which is more real and more purely spiritual But the houre cometh and now is when the true Worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth John 4. 23. They were to worship him in the spirit before for where the heart was not in the ceremonial and typical worship they were not accepted and God never indulged hypocrisie the meaning must therefore be That spirit must be taken in opposition to those carnal Ordinances and the material Temple and Truth in opposition to those Types which were not a Lie but were only the shadows of good things to come I might enlarge to the Officers Offices and restrained Extent of the Mosaical Administration and shew that in all it is Alien to the Administration of Christ come and that wherein Christianity consists For if that Ministration which is done away was glorious much more that which remaineth is glorious 2 Cor. 3. 11. Now to resume the intent of what I have said observe that neither the natural light and practices of Heathen nor the revealed light law and practices Judaical were Christian as such though the latter a great part of them had a respect to Christ and the medicinal and remedying part of Religion And the Jewes who were immediately before the Church of God yet when the Administration was they changed they were cut off from the Church though they retained their Morals and those Ceremonial Respects to an expected Messiah if they did not admit into their Creed or faith the Articles aforesaid viz. a Christ come That Jesus who was crucified was the Christ and that he was the Supreme Head and Administrator to the Church of God and those who did so were transmitted into the Christian Church the other being dissolved SECT II. Having expressed with what brevity I could what Christianity as such is I shall in a few lines give an Account what I intend by the term Quakerism I do not mean thereby that all that are called and reputed Quakers are no Christians for my Charity is large enough to believe That many of them would abhorr the principles of their Leaders did they but well understand them for whose sakes in part I have undertaken this Discovery Quakerism is a Heap of Tenets with the usurped Names of true Christian Principles which are yet really no such things but subverting both Foundation and Fabrick of Christianity and I call him a Quaker that professes the light within every man to be the only Lord and Saviour and very God So that when I say Quakerism is no Christianity I do not say that common Civility Justice among men or whatever of their principles or practices which are morally good for these are generally owned as the principles of those Christians whom they separate from and bitterly reproach as Antichristian and it cannot be for want of Instructions or Examples in such kind of goodness that they withdraw from the serious Professors that are as far from their opinions as the East is from the West CHAP. II. The Beginning of Quakerism different from and opposite to Christianity SECT I. THE first Argument which I shall begin my attempt with shall be from the beginning of Quakerism which I shall take notice of under two Considerations First the manner of the beginning of Quakerism Secondly the time of its beginning Both of which I shall prove exceedingly to oppose or differ fro● the beginning of Christianity The Christian Religion or Christianity was first introduced by the preaching of the promised Messias to be come into the world whose humane Person was pointed at by John the Baptist and visible to the bodily eyes of a multitude of beholders The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the World This is he of whom I said after me cometh a man which is preferred before me for he was before me But Quakerism was introduced by preaching a Christ within every man born within every man which was never seen with the bodily eyes of any man and this Testimony of John concerning the true Christ perverted for the maintaining of their feigned Christ And as you give up to that measure of light in your own Consciences and wait to be guided by it and exercised in it you will know Christ revealed within you whom you are looking for without you and put his day far off from you and so you live in want of him and know not how to come to him nor the place where to find him but live in the dreamings and night-visions and have a talk of him and what he hath done for you and so spend your precious time in slumbring and dreaming c. This Quakers Text will bear a large Comment but I will take notice of that only which is to the present purpose here is preached a Christ within in opposition to and