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An antidote against that poysonous and fundamental error of the Quakers denying the same numerical true and real manhood of Jesus Christ in heaven, a place remote from the earth : in two sermons preached at Hartford / by W.H. Christophilus.
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Haworth, William.
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them to go with boldness to the Throne of Grace For we have not an High Priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all things tempted like as we are yet without sin Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy and find Grace to help in time of need Luther hath often this Direction to praying ones that are at a loss how to go to God Go to the Man Christ and Pray to the Man Christ And without doubt the Man Christ may be and should be and is worshiped in conjunction with the Deity though our Worship is terminated upon the Deity Use 1. If Christ is now a Man in Heaven O let our Minds and Affections be raised thither from off the World and all things therein Col. 3.1 If you then be risen with Christ in Regeneration as Members of the Head seek those things that are above Seeking denotes intensness and vehemency of Mind where Christ sitteth on the Right-hand of God Set your Affections on things Above not on things on the Earth By things on the Earth he chiefly means Ceremonies Traditions of Men Works of the Law which he is pleading against in the point of Justification You may put in the Light within or any other thing that any other Religion pleads for They are all but things below on the Earth but Christ is not there He is Risen and gone into Heaven and is at the Right-hand of God in Power and Glory interceding Our Hearts and Affections should be there all our happiness being treasured up in him and while we are here we should be as Pilgrims and Strangers longing to be with him and till that time come we should be conforming our selves to him Luke 12.34 For where your Treasure is there will your hearts be also Now Christ is our Treasure in the Heavens infinitely full of Spiritual Riches God is in Christ in Heaven the fullness of the God-head dwells in him Besides this as he is Man the sweetest man that ever was full of Grace and Truth O let us love him adore him trust in him long to be with him for he is worthy Let our mindes be taken off these poor low nothings not so much looking after them and seting our affections on them Christ is the best thing of all other good things are for his sake Paul therefore said He desired to depart and to be with Christ which is best To see him face to face to behold his Glory What on Earth comparable to this let us look and pray for power and virtue from him to raise our minds and affections up unto him Use 2. See what an Error of the Wicked it is to deny this Truth in which is wrapt up so much of the Comfort of the Saints It is in a manner denying the whole Christan Religion How can the Quakers be Christians that have said in my hearing That what was taken of the Virgin and that was the Body had now no more being 2 Pet. 3.17 18. Te therefore beloved seeing ye know these things before beware lest ye also being led away with the Error of the Wicked fall from your own stedfastness But grow in Grace and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To him be Glory both now and for ever Amen Postscript THere is a Pamphlet printed by Christopher Taylor a Quaker Entituled A true and faithful Witness to the Light At the end whereof there is a Post script charging me with base Lies and Reflections the weakness and impertinency whereof is a sufficient Confutation of it self to any judicious Reader and I have been counselled by my Friends to slight it by silence as that which hath nothing in it that is worthy of Animadversion But not to gratifie that boasting humour that this Man C. T. and all others of them are highly prone to when any thing of theirs lyeth at our door unanswered though to this day my whole Book is at their door unanswered I thought good to give this brief Reply There are Five Principal things to wave all the bitter Invectives against me that are mentioned 1. That I charged Christopher Taylor that he said That the Doctrine of Election was a Devilish Damnable and Blasphemous Doctrine This be this a notorious Lie Answ I offer at any time two substantial Witnesses to prove that he said it if he dares come to the tryal and that no such thing was affirmed by me viz. That God ordained men to be wicked before they were born God ordaineth to effect nothing but what is good He willeth to permit evil by denying Grace which would prevent it yet this evil is from a mans self and God is not the author of it because he doth not effect it How can God be the Efficient Cause of that which is a privation Can the Sun be the cause of Darkness yet Darkness is the Consequent of the Suns with drawing If Christopher Taylor pleaseth I will enter the Lists with him to make good this Assertion That there is no Evil in the World but the Lord willeth to permit it The second thing is viz. Christopher T. with others contended against Original sin To which he saith That the Devil is the Original of sin in Mankind and that be understands not how Infants can be guilty of sin in the Womb. Nay he saith That it is a cruel unnatural Doctrine to condemn Innocents as be calls them yea an ungodby uncharitable Doctrine c. Answ That the Devil is the Original of sin in Mankind i.e. the first tempter to sin is a Doctrine we learned from Moses not from the Quakers But what is this ad rem Ergo There is no Original sin except it be the Devil A strange Argument By Original sin we mean the Birth-sin that which man brings with him into the world is from his first beginning and Original and contracted from him that was the Original of Mankind the first Man Adam and is the Original of all actuall sin That all Infants have this sin upon them I will prove from the Scriptures against C. T. and the rest of the Quakers only let it be observed that my Charge is true by his own Confession there in Print I give but three Scriptures Rom. 5.12 In whom i.e. the first Man all have sinned Then Infants they are in him naturally Nevertheless Death reigned from Adam to Moses even over them that had not finned of-the similitude of Adams Transgression Verse 14. These are Infants here spoke of that had not actually finned as Adam yet Death reigned over them though they had not actually transgressed Moses Law as in the Verse before is implied How cometh it to pass that Death is inflicted upon Infants if they have no sin Nay violent Death Is there any unrighteousness with God in Rom. 5. And Death by sin Were there any Infants drowned in the Deluge or any burned in the fire in Sodom and Gomorrah
AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THAT Poysonous and Fundamental ERROR OF THE QUAKERS Denying the same Numerical true and real Manhood of Jesus Christ in Heaven a place remote from the Earth In two SERMONS Preached at Hartford By W. H. CHRISTOPHILUS ISA. 4.2 In that day shall the Branch of the Lord be beautiful and Glorious and the fruit of the Earth shall be Excellent and Comely for them that are escaped of Israel ISA. 53.2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender Plant and as a Root out of a dry Ground He hath no Form nor Comeliness and when we shall see him there is no Beauty that we should desire him London Printed for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lyon in S t. Pauls Church-Yard 1676. The Epistle Dedicatory To his much Honoured FRIEND Sir John Hartop Baronet SIR THAT which gave the Occasion of my thoughts pitching upon this subject matter viz. Christ's Manhood in Heaven was that Dispute betwixt Mr. Hicks and Mr. Pen at London concerning the same I being there present am satisfied by the Quakers fallacious management of that Discourse that they deny the same Numerical true and real Manhood of Christ in Heaven as a place remote from us Since that I have had Discourse with a Neighbour Quaker William Bates who frequently said He did not believe that the Humane Nature that which was taken by Christ of the Virgin had now any being I have three Witnesses of this whom I can produce if need be Sir I may boldly say That neither you I nor thousands more of Christians in this Nation ever thought that we should live to see that day wherein so many thousands pretending to Christianity in this Nation should be so Brazen-foreheaded as to disown Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah yet so it is O Tempora O Mores The Ends of the World are come upon us My Spirit being stirred within me at the hearing of this grand Fundament al Errour I thought it my duty to the Lord Jesus Christ to Antidote the poor Country as much as in me lieth against these damnable Delusions it made him speak that was dumb before when he saw his Fathers Life in danger So what Babe what Novice will want a Mouth a Tongue to speak a Hand a Pen to write when the Man Christ is struck at by ungodly Seducers Therefore I though the least and most unfit of my Brethren have Printed my Notes Preached you know at Hartford and humbly present them to you Sir as to one whom I know to be a sincere lover of the One Mediator betwixt God and Man the Man Christ Jesus and of his Evangelical Truths Pray Sir vouchsafe to read them and candidly bear with what may not be so congruously worded in so sublime a Mystery The Lord by his Spirit establish settle strengthen you in this and every Truth and preserve you and your Elect Lady both as Vessels of Honour to his heavenly Kingdom there to behold the Man Jesus Christ in his Glory which is best of all Your Servant for Jesus sake William Haworth AN ANTIDOTE Against that Poysonous Fundamental Error OF THE QUAKERS c. 1 PETER 3.22 Who is gone into Heaven and is on the Right hand of God THE Apostle Peter is here speaking of the Grounds of Comfort to the guilty Consciences One is in Vers 21. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ The answer of a good Conscience through the Resurrection of Jesus Christ He rose again for our Justification He being acquitted by the Father then His Members are acquitted now A second Proposition in order to the Answer of a good Conscience is The Ascension of Jesus Christ and his sitting at the Right-hand of God all things being made subject to him To see by Faith our Head exalted into Glory and there Advocating for us and Ruling for us is a very comfortable thing In the 18 Verse he is speaking of Christ's being put to death in the Flesh but quickned by the Spirit i.e. the Divine Power Then descends to speak of his Resurrection as the true solid Ground of the Answer of a Good Conscience and from this Resurrection descends to speak of his Ascension So then That same Jesus that was put to death in the Flesh and Raised by the Power of God from the Dead That same is gone into Heaven It 's plain then that he was put to Death in his fleshly Body and in This it was that he Rose again Why then in This is he gone into Heaven and in This is he at the Right-hand of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it speaks a Motion from one Place to another a Change of the Place Now Whither went he Into Heaven Heaven is not every where as some say and so this Change is only a Change of State But Heaven is a Place where God doth manifest most of his Glory It 's called the Heaven of Heavens and the third Heaven whereunto Paul was wrapt up 2 Chron. 6.21 Hear thou from thy dwelling-Place even from Heaven It 's called here and 1 Kings 8.30 Gods Dwelling-Place John 14.2 It 's called the Fathers House In my Fathers House are many Mansions I go to prepare a Place for you And is on the Right-hand of God An Allusion to the Custom of Kings who were wont to take their Favourites and place them on their Right-hand as Solomon placed his Mother at his Right-hand And as Zebedee would have had her Sons at Christ's Right-hand in his Kingdom It is a Place of Honour Glory Power and Authority Learn this Truth from the Words That the Same Jesus Christ that was put to Death in the Flesh and did Rise with that Same Flesh again That Same Jesus in that Same Flesh and Man-hood is now in Heaven which is a Place not a State only there he is at Gods Right-hand in Power and Glory So that as to that Humane Nature he is not upon Earth I will prove this That Jesus Christ is now a true real Man in Heaven and so Is not here on Earth as he is Man That ever Jesus Christ was a true real Man some have denied and have held That it was only an Appearance or Spectrum in the shape of a Man And some are of this mind now But we will take this for granted That Christ was once here on Earth a real true Man but that he is so Now the Quakers deny A Man consists of these two Essential Parts viz. Soul and Body Both these Christ had Heb. 10.5 A Body hast thou prepared me That which was taken by the Virgin which consists of Flesh and Bones Luke 24.39 A Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as ye see me have 2. A Soul he had Matth. 26.38 My Soul is sorrowful even unto Death That both these Essential Parts Soul and Body are now in Heaven I am now about to prove a Place remote from us so that he cannot be said as to his Corporal presence to be here on Earth Though we believe that