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A65858	The contemned Quaker and his Christian religion defended against envy & forgery in answer to two abusive invective pamphlets, the one stiled Antichrist in spirit unmasked, the other Railings and slanders detected, promoted by some persons commonly called Anabaptists at Deptford in Kent who have unwarily begun the contest.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1692 (1692)	Wing W1919; ESTC R26354	39,076	98

by a Mediate or Immediate Inspiration or Revelation p. 21. And what follows If by neither of these ways we can resolve him then not to pretend to Immediate Inspiration And yet he himself pretends to Mediate or more Common Gifts of the Spirit and then confusedly tells of the use of these more immediate or common Gifts p. 19 20. And yet by these his pretended more immediate or common Gifts of the Spirit or rather mediate Gifts in his sense I presume he cannot resolve himself his Two Questions before nor can he upon his own Principle either resolve them or be resolved them either by any mediate or immediate Gifts For the immediate he has disclaimed he needs it not he says but pretends the Scriptures to be the Only Rule of Faith By what Rule then should he be resolved what those or any of those other things were that are not written John 20.25 Therefore he has insincerely and temptingly imposed unlearned Questions and Propositions which he does not believe can be resolved to his conviction or satisfaction and thereupon has past unjust Judgment against our having immediate Inspiration yet in contradiction to himself tells us of common and more immediate Gifts and Graces of the Spirit and of the use of these more immediate or common Gifts to help our Infirmities p. 19 20. Altho I presume he would be loath to have his own Judgment and Condemnation against us return'd upon himself on the same condition For 't is certain he that has not the Spirit of Christ is none of his And what are these more immediate Gifts and Graces of the Spirit he pretends to the use of seeing he and his Brethren pretend not to immediate or extraordinary Inspirations p. 19 20. There 's another Contradiction in the Case to prove their Call to Baptize People in Water He saith they have a sufficient Call for it from the Commission of Christ our Great Prophet who is to be heard in all things Matth. 28. Mark 16. and the frequent Examples of his Apostles c. So that we need not immediate Inspirations for our Call or Authority herein p. 21. Ans. Which is to tell us you may take upon you to be Preachers and Baptizers in Water without being inspired by Christ because he gave a Commission to his Disciples to teach all Nations baptizing them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost But 1. This is no proof that you are called by Christ to either 2. Here 's no Water mention'd in the Commission 3. And to baptize into that Name is a work of the Spirit attending a living and spiritual Ministry given and authorized by Christ himself which this proves not yours to be no more than that the false Prophets were true and truly commissionated because they said thus saith the Lord when yet God never spoke to them no more than Christ hath spoke to you to Preach and Baptize with Water when as you do both without his immediate Inspiration Commission or Spirit and consequently you do not hear him in all things 4. Neither does it follow that you hear Christ because you Preach and Baptize People in Water by imitation of others whom he sent to Preach and Convert People by his Spirit whereby they did Minister 5. You might as well argue that because Peter James John and Paul c. were Apostles and Ministers of Christ therefore we Edward Paye and William Allcott c. are Ministers of Christ. 6. If Reading Christ's Commission to his Disciples Mat. 28. Mar. 16. be sufficient authority for persons to turn Preachers and then to tell People they hear Christ because they read his said Commission and presume to take it upon them without immediate Inspiration from him why may not the Priests of England c. be his Ministers as well as you and why do you dissent from them Thus we see how you have proved your Call and Authority for what you pretend even as well as any sensual Impostors blind Guides and Deceivers may On Rom. 10.6.7 8. E. P. saith neither did the holy Apostle understand the Word here to be Christ p. 22. Ans. How does he answer the Questions then which the Righteousness of Faith gives answer to Say not in thy Heart who shall ascend into Heaven that is to bring Christ from above Or who descend into the Deep that is to bring Christ again from the dead But what saith it The Word is near thee c. Is this all one as to say the Scripture is near thee even in thy Mouth and Heart Or was the Enquiry after the Scripture Who shall ascend or descend to fetch me the Scriptures No sure Was not the antecedent Question of Christ And surely none can savingly believe with the Heart and in true Faith confess with the Mouth that God hath raised Christ from the dead so as to be saved but by that Living Word of Faith in the Heart which works a true and living Faith therein and therefore that Word of Faith which begets and works this Faith is Christ in Spirit who is the Author of this Faith otherwise the Questions who shall fetch Christ c. are not answered For where with the Heart Man believeth unto Righteousness and with the Mouth maketh Confession unto Salvation Rom. 10.10 he must needs first feel that Living Word of Faith in his Heart to work that Faith in him which produceth that Righteousness in Man which attends Salvation 'T is true that I did complain of E. P.'s injurious way of Writing in accusing us with giving better or higher Titles to our own Books than to the Holy Scripture instancing that of H. Smith's Book where E. P. gave these words only for the Title A True and Everlasting Rule being but the first words of the Title and leaving out the next following in the same Sentence viz. From God discovered This I did deem very disingenuous Now to extenuate and excuse the Offence he asks me Does those Words from God discovered added to The True and Everlasting Rule diminish the Heighth of the Title p. 23. Answ. Yes as the first Part was only by E. P. attributed to the Book contrary to the Design of the Title and Matter contained in the Book to which the Title had plain reference as taken together entirely that True and Everlasting Rule from God discovered being the Holy Spirit the Eternal Light and Manifestation of Christ within or what may be known of God being manifest in Man plainly testified unto in the said Book as that True and Everlasting Rule that was from God discovered so the Perversion and Abuse is plain I think E. P. might have spared his Labour of giving the Reader a Breviate of what he Ironically calls The Sweet Convincing Language the Quakers use to treat their Antagonists withal unless his own Language had been sweeter and more convincing than it is and less Partial and Abusive in his Accusations as to Matter

the highest Attainments of the Holy Spirit do but fit Men for Water-Baptism as if that were higher than those Attainments or the Spirit Inferior to the Element of Water 3. But in contradiction to themselves herein they tell us That Water-Baptism is the initiating and ingrafting Ordinance whereby the Penitent Believer puts on Christ p. 68. Obs. For which they quote and misapply Gal. 3.27 which shews That it is by Faith in Christ Jesus that they were Children of God being baptized into Christ v. 26 27. and Rom. 11.19 20 23. 4. That there is but one Baptism in a full and proper Sense and that is that of Water in which the Penitent Believer is Buried for which they unduly quote Coll. 2.12 Rom. 6.4 and on Eph. 4.5 say To be Baptized with Water is the one Baptism Pa. 66 67. Obs. This appears directly Popish Doctrine and accordingly held by the Rhemists contrary to the Protestants and wholy excludes Christ's Baptism by the Holy Spirit 5. 1 Pet. 3.21 Applyed to Water-Baptism as the Baptism that doth now save us the End whereof is the Answer of a good Conscience towards God p. 67. Obs. If Water-Baptism be the one-saving Baptism then out of the Baptist's-Church there is no Salvation This is not only Popish but contrary to that very Scripture 1 Pet. 3.2 that Saving Baptism being not the putting away the Filth of the Flesh c. 6. That our saying Water-Baptism was a Figure of the Spiritual is an apparent Falshood p. 68. Ob. No 't is an apparent Truth John's Baptism was a Figure of Christ's Saving Spiritual Baptism and Washing of Regeneration See Matth. 3.11 Mar. 1.8 Luke 3.16 Joh. 1.26 27. Tit. 3.5 6. 7. That Christ is not come because that Kingdom is not come that Christ speaks of I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the Vine 'till I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom Matt. 26.29 Luke 22.18 p. 73. compared with p. 74. In that Kingdom they neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they dye any more Luk. 20.35 36. Qu. How then shall they drink new Wine with Christ in that World to come and in that State wherein they shall be equal with the Angels of God in Heaven suppose ye And as neither can they dye any more so neither shall they Hunger nor Thirst any more Rev. 7.16 Isaiah 49.10 What occasion for New Wine then 8. That his Disciples upon Earth are to Break and Eat Bread and Drink of the Fruit of the Vine till he come to wit in a Personal Glorious and Visible manner Phil. 3 2● Who shall change our vile Bodies and make them like his own glorious Body at Christ's second personal coming visible in his Body of Flesh and Bones p. 73 74. Qu. And shall those glorious Bodies then have occasion to drink New Wine with Christ in his Father's Kingdom do you think or are you not rather too Carnal in your Expectations in this Matter whilst you mean literally and then do you not delay and put off the Spiritual Eating and Drinking with Christ Rev. 3.20 Luke 22.30 in his Spiritual Kingdom 9. No Christians can allow them i.e. the Quakers that Christ is come the second Time p. 74. Obs. Yes true Christians can allow it tho' these Baptists cannot wherein they contradict the true Believers Expectation and Experience of Salvation by Christ's coming Heb. 9.28 Tit. 2.13.14 10. That the Quakers say they are perfect viz. without Sin this is not true by the way but that to be so is both required of us in this Life and attainable in Christ Jesus but Christians expect compleat Perfection that is a living without Sin as 't is explain'd by E. P. Rail and Slan p. 38. when they come to glory on the other side of the Grave c. p. 51. Qu. When do these Men expect to be made clean in the Grave or at their expected Resurrection unto Glory If not until they are in their Graves they dye in their Sins and then whither Christ is gone they cannot come John 8.21 If not until such their expected Resurrection what shall become of their Sins inherent Pollutions and Defilement between their Death and Resurrection A few more of their Unsound and Antichristian Doctrines about Inspiration Christ within his Kingdom and Light within 1. That if the Quakers by their immediate Inspirations do not resolve what those many other things were that Jesus did that are not written Joh. 21.25 and what were the Contents of that Writing on the Ground Joh. 8.6 8. then their boasting of immediate Inspiration is to be condemned to perpetual Silence and shame to cover their Faces Antichrist in Spirit p. 15 16. Contradiction Things that are Secret and not written not at all belonging to us but to the Lord as in E. P. Rail and Slan p. 20. Obs. There they have imposed such a Proof of immediate Inspiration upon us as doth not at all belong to them if things not written do not all belong to them 2. On Matth. 24.26 they say 'T is more than probable that Christ pointed at this Generation of Impostors the Quakers who say Behold he Christ is within thee c. p. 25. Obs. Antichristian Doctrine contrary to Christ and his Apostle's Doctrine Joh. 17.23 2 Cor. 13.5 Coll. 1.27 Rom. 10.6 7 8. 3. That those that are in the Possession of that Kingdom viz. the Kingdom of Christ neither Marry nor are given in Marriage c. but the Quakers do Marry ergo not in possession of that Kingdom p. 51 52. Obs. Marriage in the Lord hinders not his People from the Enjoyment of Christ's Kingdom therefore the first Proposition and Conclusion of this Argument is contrary to plain Scripture Coll. 1.13 Rev. 1.9 Matt. 16.28 Mar. 9.1 Luk. 9.27 4. That the Disciples did not expect this Christ to come into them Namely This Christ the Prophet whom ye shall hear in all things Deut. 18.15 Acts 3.22 He of whom God the Father from Heaven testified Matt. 17 5. This is my beloved Son hear ye him This Christ that was Crucified and Rose from the Dead Luke 24.39 This is he that told Mary Joh. 20.19 I go to my Father and your Father to my God and your God Hereupon these Baptists affirm as before the Disciples did not exp●ct this Christ to come into them p. 52 53. Qu. What Christ then Is there two Christs See 1 Cor. 8.6 Is not this Antichristian Doctrine contrary to Christ's own express Testimony Joh. 14.20.17.23 And to these Baptists own Confession on 2 Cor. 13.5 c. 5.17 1 Cor. 6.19 Coll. 1.27 Ro. 8.9 Eph. 2.22 p. 22 23. 5. Turn to the Light within saith the Quaker This these Baptists have in contempt repeated seven times over in less than three Pages and all under the Title of Quakerism a great Delusion to prove that the Quakers disown the Doctrine taught by Christ and his Apostles and that they oppose the Teachings of Christ's Prophetical office p. 54 55 56. Obs. Here they have opposed and contemned the Doctrine of God's Prophets Christ and his Apostles who were all for and preached the Light within see Ps. 56.13 Isa. 2.5 Jo. 12.36 1 Jo. 1.7 and 2.10 Acts 26.18 and how can the Light of Christ within either oppose his Doctrine Ministry or Offices And 't is no other Light we exhort People to turn to The Lord open these Men's Eyes that they may come out of Darkness which they cannot do unless they turn to the Light within FINIS Charg 1. Answer Answ. Observ. * Where proves he these to be the Quakers words from which he himself varies p. 11. viz. That all things necessary may be taught without them and what less have Baptists heretofore confessed by approving Samuel How 's Sermon for The Sufficiency of the Spirit 's Teaching printed 1655. A Gross Lye Answ. Answ. Answ. Observ. * This is a gross Forgery Observ. Observ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. Answ. * Contrary to Christ's own Testimony Matt. 16.28 Mark 9.1 Luke 9.27