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A65886	A serious account in XXXV evident reasons (to all who desire satisfaction) why the people of the lord, called Quakers, cannot go to worship at those places called churches and chappels, and to inform the magistrates and ministers that such consciencious people (as are separated from these places) ought not to be compelled (from their peaceable meetings) to their worship and churches, so called, being a short discovery of the way, worship, and principles of the true ministers and persecuted people of God, in several exceptions against the practices, worship, and principles of the priests, both of the Presbyterians, and Episcopal-men, and others of the same affinity, in some of which principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned, but in others of them, both are concerned in the general / by Geo. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1956; ESTC R20306	27,063	42

A SERIOUS ACCOUNT In XXXV Evident Reasons To all who desire Satisfaction Why the People of the Lord called QUAKERS cannot go to Worship at those places called Churches and Chappels And to inform the Magistrates and Ministers That such Consciencious People as are separated from these places ought not to be compelled from their Peaceable Meetings to their Worship and Churches so called BEING A short DISCOVERY of the Way Worship and Principles of the true Ministers and persecuted People of God in several Exceptions against the Practices Worship and Principles of the Priests both of the Presbyterians and Episcopal-men and others of the same affinity in some of which Principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned but in others of them both are concerned in the general By Geo. Whitehead London Printed for Robert Wilson at the Sign of the Black-spread-Eagle and Wind-mill in Martins Le Grand 1661. THE CONTENTS Of the following REASONS 1. COncerning the true Worship and Meetings which God hath called us to and of what he hath called us from 2. Of the Education of the Priests 3. Of their humane Learning 4. Of Tythes and forced Maintenance 5. Of the Priests Unreasonableness in spoyling mens goods 6. Of their Persecuting and Compelling men 7. Of the manner of their Preaching 8. Of the manner of their Worship 9. Of their Sinning in their best Performances 10. Of the Trade of their Preaching Then the falshood of the Priests and Professors Principles 1. Concerning the Light 2. Their confusion about the Light 3. Of the Offer of Salvation 4. Of the Death of Christ. 5. Of Perfection 6. Of the Priests Exhorting to endeavour after it 7. Of Election and Reprobation 8. Of Original Sin 9. Of the Serpent and the forbidden Fruit. 10. Of Justification and of Sanctification 11. Of the Believer's Faith and its Work 12. Of the Priests meanings upon the Scripture 13. Of the Gospel 14. Of the Foundation and only Rule 15. Of Swearing 16. Of Revelation and Inspiration from Heaven 17. Of Sprinkling Infants 18. Of Bread and Wine which they call the Lords Supper 19. 20. Of the Church and Seal of the Covenant 21. Of Bishops and Presbyters 22. Of the Priests Ordination 23. Of the Common-prayer-Book 24. Of the Priests grosse Ignorance about their Publick Baptism 25. Of the true Church and its Head I. Concerning the true Worship and Meetings which God hath called us to and of what he hath called us from THe LORD GOD of Truth and Righteousness hath gathered us by his mighty Power out of the worlds Ways Worships and Traditions which were never set up by the Power of God and from the Priests and Teachers of the world which are made and set up by the Traditions and Wills of men who preach for filthy lucre and gain which thing was ever abhorred and denyed by all the true Ministers and holy People of the Lord who feared God and hated Covetousness in all Ages as also we are brought by the Power of the Lord God out of the Worlds Temples or Houses which are falsly called Churches and brought into the Worship of God which is in the Spirit and in the Truth Joh. 4. VVhich Worship Christ taught when he foretold the end of that Worship which was at Jerusalem in the Temple which once God commanded to the Jews under the Law which with the outward things that pertained to it and to the Priests and Worshippers in that Temple as outward Musick Instruments Singing Tythes Offerings were all to cease as Figures or Types when a more inward and mysterious Way and Worship in the Spirit was brought in and revealed by Christ to the Saints and Christians of the New Testament who as they grew in the power of God to enjoy the enduring Substance and end of Figures and Shadows they grew out of these outward things that were but as Figures into the knowledge of the glorious Gospel and the Mystery of its Fellowship which outshined and transcended all these shadows under the Law See Heb. 9. chap. 10. which Gospel and Mystery we are come to know and witness to the praise and glory of our God And to this Testimony did the holy Apostles and Ministers of Christ bear large Witness as did the Martyr Stephen when he preached Christ whom the people were to hear in all things and he that would not hear was to be cut off Deut. 18.18 Act. 7.37 and 3.23 and called them stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears who were in their blind zeal for the outward Temple and so witnessing to Christ the substance and end of the Temple He told them The most High dwelleth not in Temples made with hands and for his Testimony he was stoned to death Act. 7.47 48 51. And so we being brought to hear and learn of Christ the Prophet whom the People were to hear in all things lest they were destroyed and being made a spiritual house Church and living Temples in which God dwells and walks according to his Promises 2 Cor. 6.16 who hath brought us out from the Idols Temples false Worships and Teachers we may not uphold nor joyn with that Worship that is upheld in these places which the world calls Churches and Chappels which God never commanded nor set up but the Papists and such as were apostatized from the Life of the Saints into men's Traditions and Inventions neither ought the Magistrate to compel us to these places of Worship against our Consciences but as it is the just duty of the Civil Magistrates to punish evil-doers and to be a praise to them that do well Rom. 13. 1 Pet. 2 14. So they ought rather to protect than hinder our peaceable Meetings which are in the Worship into which God hath called us by his Spirit And whether our Meetings be in houses or fields we being brought to meet together in the Name and Power of Christ we meet according to the Example of the People of God and true Christians in the primitive times when they were brought both from the Jews Temple and from the Gentiles Temples and Worships and sometimes met in houses sometimes abroad in the Fields and upon Mountains sometimes by the Sea-side c. as many examples might be mentioned See Matth. 5.1 Joh. 20.19 Act. 10.27 chap. 12.12 and 16.13 and 20.8.20 and 28.30 Heb. 10.25 Mal. 3.16 So would it have been just or righteous to have persecuted these Christians for meeting in houses and to have termed their Meetings Conventicles or to have made any Laws against them for the breaking of their Meetings and for imprisoning them for meeting in houses as many of the People of God have been dealt with for no other cause but for being in their Example and Life And it is as much against our Consciences and the Law of God in us to deny to meet together in the Name of Christ wherein we have long and often met as it was against Peter and John's Consciences to deny to speak in the

it shall be for meat Gen. 1.29 and the fruit of such a Tree that beareth seed is an Apple So that could not be the Forbidden Fruit. And the Serpent was that which tempted Man from the simplicity of the Truth and through subtilty led him out from the Innocency and Life wherein God had placed him to feed upon the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge which was desirable to the Carnal or Woman's part that was not content with the pure innocent and simple Being wherein God at first placed Man over the rest of the Creation and wherein he was more peculiar and near to the Lord than the other Creatures and might have fed upon the Tree of Life which was above the Serpent and his subtilty and beyond that knowledge of good and evil which that got into which went out from the Life of Truth and Innocency and which let in the Temptation and Subtilty that betrayed the Simplicity in Man and brought in the Enmity Disobedience and Misery which caused the Curse to come upon him and when the Enmity and Disobedience was entered into the Devil who before was called the Serpent who abode not in the Truth and whom Cod for his Rebellion cursed and said Upon thy Belly shalt thou go and Dust shalt thou eat he got power over the Creature and ruleth in the Children of Disobedience And of this Serpent who beguiled Eve the Apostle was jealous left that the Corinths should be deceived by him and their minds corrupted and led away through his subtilty from the simplicity of the Gospel which was in Christ 2 Cor. 11.2 3. Now where the Seed of the Woman which is CHRIST is received he bruiseth the Serpents head who hath led Man out from the Life and Simplicity of Truth and so CHRIST the Promised Seed being received and made manifest in Man he frees Man from the Devil and his Power and redeems him out of the disobedient nature and so from the Wrath and Curse and brings him to have dominion over the Serpent and his enmity and to see through all his Subtilty and Temptations and to know Victory over them and to inherit a Kingdom into which no unclean thing can come and which none can enter into but such who follow Christ Jesus the true Light in whom the wicked one hath nothing thorow the work of Regeneration and Renewing till the New-Birth be born in them and the New-Creature in Christ be brought forth where the Man and the Woman who is not without one another in the Lord are restored in the Seed and who come to witness this must deny themselves and forsake their own corrupt knowledge thoughts and imaginations which they and the Priests have run into about these things which have been hid and sealed from them as in Parables as they ●re from all such as are disobedient to the Light of Christ in them which is the true Key which opens where no man can shut and shutteth where no man can open X. Of Justification and of Sanctification ANd those Teachers and Professors who affirm That Justification is before Sanctification and that men are justified by the Imputation of Christs Righteousness when they are sinners and say that Righteousness which justifies is not within them but the Righteousness which sanctifies is within And so they tell of two Righteousnesses one that justifies and another that sanctifies Herein they shew their Error and Blindness and their Doctrine to be contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostles who preached that it was not the hearers of the Law that were Just before God but the doers that should be justified Rom. 2.13 So that here men were not justified while sinners and unsanctified but when sanctified and obedient to the righteous Law of God written in their hearts and the Righteousness of the Law did Christ fulfil in them that walked not after the flesh but after the Spirit which some Priests falsly say is meant that the Righteousness of the Law was fulfilled in Christ and not in Believers persons when it 's expresly said that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us Rom. 8.4 As also the Apostle desired to be found in Christ not having his own righteousness but that which was through the Faith of Christ the Righteousness of God by Faith by which he knew Christ and the power of his Resurrection and fellowship of his Sufferings and was made conformable unto his Death Phil. 3.9 10. So here he witnessed Sanctification and Justification through one and the same Righteousness which was imputed to him in the Faith of Christ which was in him and said he but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6.11 So here they were not justified when sinners but when washed and sanctified by the Spirit of God from sin by which Spirit they were justified and this was within and so God does not justifie men in their ungodliness but from it and no where doth the Apostle tell of two Righteousnesses one without to justifie and another within to sanctifie as many of the Priests and Professors do XI Of the Believer's Faith and its Work ANd the Priests and Professors who affirm That the work of Sanctification and the Believers Faith is Imperfect in this life and that the Believers have Sin mixed with their Grace In this they do greatly erre for the Believer's Faith and Grace is the gift of God from whom every good and perfect gift cometh which saveth them and purifieth them from sin and Faith purifieth their hearts and overcometh the world Act. 15.9 1 Joh. 5.4 and so this Grace and Faith is pure or else how could it purifie and the work of it is perfect and its fruits pure And the Saints witnessed the Blood of Christ through Faith to cleanse them from all sin and a perfecting Holiness in the fear of God till they were compleat in Christ and sanctified throughout 2 Cor. 7.1 Col. 2.10 1 Thess. 5.23 So that Sanctification came to be perfected in them as the Work of God is perfect So that the Priests and Professors which profess Faith that is mixed with Sin and so imperfect and which is a Faith without Works and so a dead Faith that leaves them still in their sins we deny it for the Faith of God's Elect which is of Christ is pure in the least measure of it and from that Faith are Righteous Works and Fruits brought forth of its own nature and kind for that Faith which doth not purifie and is a Faith without Works is but a false and dead Faith Jam. 2.20 which the sinful Priests and Professors are in XII Of the Priests meanings upon the Scripture ALso the Priests do greatly shew their Error and Confusion in giving their sundry invented Meanings to the Scripture contrary to what the words of Scripture do import in many places as they say and in saying they must