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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40738	The worlds honour detected, and, for the unprofitableness thereof, rejected, and the honour which comes from God alone, asserted, and reduced to practice, or, Some reasons why the people of God called Quakers, do deny the accustomary honour and salutations of the world ... by a friend to truth, who is no respector or regarder of persons, called a Quaker, B.F.	Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2541; ESTC R8091	54,243	70

his Disciples to inform them that their Salutations or the demonstration of their Love Honour or Respect Esteem and Good-will to men which was to hold forth the Peace of God to men to do good to all to bless and pray for them c. ought to extend beyond their empty Salutations to their Friends only to All to Enemies to those that hated and persecuted them for their love and good-will and herein stood or consisted their Perfection above all other men their likeness to their heavenly Father and not in such fond manners as the Pharisees and Publicans and the modern Salutations and Complements Of which there would be no end if by these words every man were bound to put off his Hat and bid Good-morrow and Good-night Sir or Mistris to every man or woman he should meet betwixt Aldgate in London and Whitehall in Westminster for all that he meets are either Friends and Brethren or not But Friends Christ did not only say to his Apostles Salute but he also taught them how when who where and upon what occasions they should salute So we shall now try and compare your Salutations to the Apostles Salutations that so you may see how unreasonably you infer your self-invented Salutations from the Salutation of the Apostles 1. Then The Apostles saluted by command from the Lord with a Salutation which had no correspondence with that manner of Salutation then used by the world Therefore ye salute with a Salutation contrary to the Command of the Lord which is wel-pleasing to the world yea their own invention 2. The Apostles when they came into a City or Village were to enquire who were worthy and to salute such only Therefore ye salute all good and bad worthy and unworthy if not too poor 3. The Apostles saluted that worthy house when they entered into it but were expresly forbidden to salute any man upon the way Therefore ye salute upon the way Streets Markets or any other publick place And though Christ reproved it in the Pharisees that 's no matter 4. The Apostles entring into that worthy house and saluting it saluted it thus saying Peace be to this house See Mat. 10.13 Luke 10.5 Therefore ye salute any man upon the Street or Market by bowing doffing the Hat and saying Good-morrow Sir Good-night Madam Your Servant or humble Servant Madam every man according to the mode he judgeth best What fine consequences are these O ye unchristian wresters Christ commanded his Apostles to salute and expresly informed them how and gave them their Salutation which was perfectly abstracted from all honouring or worshipping of mens persons far removed from all shew of worldly pomp estate and respect of persons flat contrary to the worlds customs and manners and a cross to them and ye reject that and set up another manner of Salutation every way correspondent with the worlds manners and wel-pleasing to their vain minds yea the very device of their own brain And herein all Sects agree to follow the worlds manners and traditions though they call the Scripture their Rule But would the Bishops approve of this Argument from the Papists Christ said Go teach all Nations baptizing them c. Therefore we besides Water use Salt Spittle and the Chrism making three Crosses one in the Name of the Father one in the Name of the Son and a third in the Name of the Holy Ghost O nay we should then assuredly hear that Christ had not only commanded to baptize but he had taught wherewith viz. with fair Water only Now would the Presbyterian admit of that as proof for the Episcopal Priests crossing the Infant in the forehead nor the Baptist for the Presbyterian or Independents sprinkling water in the face of an Infant and calling it the Baptism of Christ Nay nay then and in this case they would say Christ did not only command his Disciples to baptize but he told them who viz. Believers not Infants wherewith viz. with or rather in water alone and how viz. by dipping or plunging the body under water and not by sprinkling a little water in the face But they are also mistaken for this neither is nor ever was the Baptism of Christ no more than the Circumcision outward was Christ's he was Minister of another Circumcision and Author of another Baptism he baptizeth in another Water which washeth not away the filth of the flesh outward but washeth and cleanseth the inward parts and circumciseth or cutteth off the foreskin of the heart of which the outward Circumcision and Baptism were in their times figures and types the one by Moses the other by Iohn the Baptist both Servants but this is the Lord from Heaven and as he is so is his Ministration and Operation heavenly spiritual and invisible and so is his Kingdom and not of this world He that is wise will understand these things but fools will despise knowledge But to return to the Salutation I say in this all parties can satisfie them in the practice of a thing for Salutation and urge the Scripture and Command of Christ for it when as amongst the Apostles and Disciples of old such practices were never used as their Salutation who always walked in a cross to the wayes manners and customs of the world And then also use it towards people whom the Apostles were not to salute for they saluted none in any City or Village where they entered with Peace save onely such as were represented to them upon enquiry as worthy But ye all bid Good-morow Good-night c. to every one of your acquaintance worthy or unworthy Gamsters Drunkards Adulterers Harlots Proud Covetous Ambitious persons such as live in pleasures who are not worthy the Name of Christians yea there is none so unworthy but he is worthy enough to receive your Salutation from which there is no other bar but Poverty Obj. But say some The Primitive Christians did not salute as ye pretend by vertue of a particular command to each of them as the Apostles had but it was a custom amongst them so to do as appears from the second Epistle of John to the elect Lady and her children saying If any man cometh unto you and bringeth not this Doctrine the Doctrine of Christ receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed or salute him not as the same word is rendred in Acts 15. and James 1. By which say they it appears they saluted by custom without waiting for a command or motion to it Answ. The contrary appears from the very words that they were expresly forbidden to salute any by custom as you do but to try before they saluted so that their Salutation stood not in a custom of saluting all they met or all that came to them but only such as abode in the unity of the Spirit of Christ and brought his Doctrine so that their Salutation stood in the unity of the Spirit and Life to such as were in it but as for such as came