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A65885	The rector examined about his book scandalously stiled, An antidote against the venom of Quakerism, by John Meriton, who calls himself A.M. rector of Boughton in Norfolk : and his observations remarked, and the Christianity of the people commonly called Quakers, re-asserted and vindicated, from his perversions and aspersions / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1699 (1699)	Wing W1953; ESTC R20277	40,584	48

this Glorious coming of Christ from Heaven with thy carnal Eyes thou now hast 2. If thou neglectest his Inward and Spiritual Appearance and Work mayest thou not neglect thy own Salvation thereby 3. Seeing our Lord Jesus Christ The King of Kings and Lord of Lords only hath Immortality dwelling in the Light which no Man can approach unto whom no Man hath seen nor can see c. 1 Tim. 6. 15 16. How canst thou expect to see him with thy Carnal or Fleshly Eye Hast thou better clearer and more lasting Eyes of Flesh than all other Men When I have thus questioned any it was in Opposition to their neglect of Christ's Inward and Spiritual Appearance and Work effectually to save them from Sin and Condemnation This Point is more fully answered in our Books and particularly in my Examination Entituled Truth and Innocency vindicated p. 61 62. And my thus questioning the Carnal Expectations c. of some Persons I affirm as 't was never intended to oppose or contradict our sincere Belief or Profession That God will Judge the World in Righteousness by his Son Jesus Christ in the Day appointed even in the Great Day of Judgment and that Harvest which is the End of the World So neither does what 's quoted against the same Profession contradict it unless it can be proved that Men may see the Power and great Glory of God with their Carnal Eyes they now have or that with the very same they shall see Christ at his last coming to Judgment in the Glory of the Father and all his Angels with him Matt. 16. 27. What the Rector objects against that Man of God William Dewsbery to prove us Insincere in our said Profession that God will Judge the World in Righteousness by Jesus Christ c. and him the said W. D. guilty of gross Perversion Herein our Accuser has shewn himself as Ignorant as Envious and as void of Christianity He quotes the said W. Dewsbery's Discovery of Man's Return printed 1654. upon a Passage where Rev. 20. 12 13. 2 Cor. 5. 10. are only quoted with other Scriptures in the Margent of the said Discovery which the Rector recites at large and then makes his Observation against W. D. viz. Observe here his Gross Perversion he applying all this to the Light within and the Judgment within so that the outward Judgment at the Last Day which is here so plainly described is not by him professed as a thing to be expected p. 46. Ans. I cannot but observe the Ignorance and Enmity of this Person what he objects against the said W. D. is no proof at all that he did not profess or own Eternal Judgment or the final Judgment and Rewards at the Great and Last Day His words cited are these viz. Every one arise out of your Earthly Wisdom and mind the Light in thy Conscience and wait on the Power of the Lord in it and it will bring thee to Judgment before the Throne of the Lamb viz. within thee added where the Righteous Law will be opened in thy Heart that will cry through thy Earthly Heart for Righteousness and Judgment and the Book will be opened in thee where thou shalt see all written that thou hast done in the Body and shalt give an Account for every idle Word i. e. to the Light within added also and receive thy Reward for what thou hast done and thy Reward is Wrath and Condemnation which will pass upon thee from the presence of the Lamb within thee again added for thy Disobedience and breaking of the Righteous Law Where is the Insincerity or gross Perversion in all these words recited by the Rector Or any Opposition to our Profession before mentioned Surely to mind the Light of Christ in the Conscience to know his Power in it to bring Man to Judgment according to the Righteous Law in the Heart and thereby to see the Record that is made in Man of all the Evils done and committed by him This cannot be to oppose or contradict our Profession that God will Judge the World in Righteousness by his Son Jesus Christ in the day appointed but in order to bring Man to Repentance that he may escape the Judgment and Wrath to come upon the Impenitent World of the Ungodly And therefore our Adversaries bringing this Citation out of W. Dewsbery's said Discovery of Man's Return either to evince the Venom of Quakerism falsly charged or our Insincerity or Opposition to the Doctrine of Eternal Judgment c. This shews our Adversaries Insincerity and great Ignorance of the Work of Repentance The Rector has need to be corrected in this as in many other weighty Points his Enmity appearing chiefly against the Light within which both manifests and Judges those things that are reproved in God's sight For can any be truly humbled unto Repentance before they are convicted and know what Sins and Evils they are guilty of and chargeable for in the sight of God and of the Lamb Christ Jesus who is Judge both of the Living and of the Dead Surely no He who is the Heart-searcher and Tryer of the Reines and the very Inward Affections who sheweth unto Man what his Thoughts are will bring every Work to Judgment with every secret thing whether it be Good or Evil and if his Judgments do not take effect upon Men in this Life to humble them unto Repentance his Eternal Judgment will be heavy upon them in that which is to come 'T is by the Spirit of Judgment and Burning that the Lord Purgeth his People and it is through Judgment that Sion is redeemed and her Converts with Righteousness And how plain is it that W. Dewsbery's Testimony in this case even as 't is recited respects the present Law Light Judgment and Righteousness of Christ in Man and also cautions Men of and points at the future Judgment Wrath and Condemnation as that which will pass in the future upon the Rebellious for Disobedience and breaking the Righteous Law And both the Judgment that comes upon Man here and that which will come hereafter upon Man for Disobedience and Rebellion against the Light and Law of Christ in Man it all proceeds from the presence of the Lamb Christ Jesus to whom all Judgment is committed and Power given to execute it Awake awake to Judgment therefore all you that are a-sleep in Sin that Mercy and Judgment may meet and Righteousness and Peace embrace each other that being Judged as Men in the Flesh you may live according to God in the Spirit 1 Pet. 4. 6. And all who sincerely desire after God and to remember him in his ways must wait for him in the way of his Judgments as his Servants of old did Isa. 26. 8. And though this Adversary has added in the Citation within thee after the Throne of the Lamb and after the presence of the Lamb he adds within thee And after shalt give an Account for every idle Word he adds i. e. to the Light

Legal Dispensation had no Faith in the Messiah or no Title to Christianity or were in no Christian State as implied page 4. seeing they had the Word of Faith in them as well as the Law without them Deut. 30. 12 14. compared with Rom. 10. 8. And all Israel drank of the same Spiritual Rock which followed them or went with them and that Rock was Christ 1 Cor. 10. 4. How could they drink thereof if they had no Faith therein 2. Now how this Reason describes a Christian in the Affirmative He tells us To entitle a Man to be a Christian viz. He must necessarily believe Christ to be already come nay 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 That this very Man was Crucified died and rose again from the Dead and is ascended c. citing 1 Tim. 3. 16. This Christ God-man as come and Crucified was that main Foundation of the Gospel and Christianity These were new Articles founded upon a new Dispensation without the Belief of which not to name some others which may be thought by some also necessary such as Baptism by Water and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper by Bread and Wine a Man cannot be called a Christian page 4 5. If this Belief of the Blessed Man Christ Jesus his Birth Death Resurrection and Ascension into Glory as the Great Mystery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh c. 1 Tim. 3. 16. be necessary to entitle a Man to be a Christian then we the People called Quakers sincerely believe all this of Christ the true and promised Messiah we really have all this Faith of and concerning him consequently we must have a true Title and right Claim to Christianity by the same Proposition we really believe both of Christ and in him even in his Name and Power wherein we hold the main Foundation of the Gospel and Christianity and the Doctrine thereof But this Rector has omitted a Living Faith in Christ unto Repentance Sanctification Regeneration the New Birth Newness of Life Purity and Holiness without which no Man shall see God or be a Christian in Nature The more uncharitable and inconsistent then is this Rector in charging us with Venom giving our Doctrine the Character of The Venom of Quakerism and the Quakers indefinitely that of Deceitful Workers Transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ cannot be looked upon any otherwise at best than good moral Heathens and many of them short of that page 5. Hence observe how uncharitable and furious this Rector is and how he had need to be corrected for his Rashness herein though our Profession taking the words thereof in their common Acceptation must be granted at least to seem Orthodox as he grants both of our Paper observed by him i. e. The Christianity c. W. P' s Key John Crook ' s Principles c. But still in his uncharitable and sower Humour he will presume to be Judge over our Sincerity from my seeing cause to construe my Friend's words and Intentions as if we were hence to be mistrusted in our Orthodox Confessions whereupon he presently passes Judgment against the Quakers viz. That they have a nauseous Pill to give you but that it may not be distastful they gild it over as the Writers of Popery in the late K. J's Reign the other day did with more such bitter envious Stuff and false Judgment to which we shall never submit nor give away our Sincerity or Holy Profession of Christ and Christianity which he cannot deny to be Orthodox in it self Nor extinguish our Sincerity therein but only strive to cloud by Reproaches groundless Jealousies and Misconstructions and Perversions which is not as he would be done by to be sure But if a Belief of Christ already come born of the Virgin Mary being of the Seed of Abraham and that he was Crucified died rose again and ascended as the Scriptures declare be sufficient to entitle a Man to be a Christian How many do believe and confess thus much of Christ and yet Unsanctified Unregenerate Impenitent Ungodly and Unchristian in Spirit and Conversation So that they are not in the true living Faith in Christ Jesus though they have an Historical and Traditional one and perhaps may be Baptized or Sprinkled with Water too But of that the Rector here writes somewhat faintly and dubiously as thought by some also necessary i. e. to make a Man a Christian page 9. But afterward he is more positive in this Point That 't is necessary as the Sacred Ordinance of Christ and Saving p. 27. Necessary to enter Men into the Kingdom of God from John 3. 5. p. 28. for Remission and doing away Sins cleansing of our Souls that the Spirit doth Sanctifie the Waters in Baptism to the mystical Washing away of Sin p. 29 31 32. But as for Infants partaking thereof he evades proof It is not his business here to prove he saith p. 27. So that he both evades defending their own Practice and leaves People at an uncertainty of the Subjects of this ignorantly supposed Saving Soul cleansing and mystical washing Ordinance making use of the Anabaptists Arguments for Baptizing Believers with Water which is no proof for Rantism or Sprinkling upon Infants Thus he attempts to shew People the way or means of Regeneration and entering into the Kingdom of God and he lays the stress thereof upon the outward Baptism by Water and not upon the inward Baptism of the Spirit he has found out an easie way to make Christians and to get to Heaven at this rate His business here being to prove Whether outward Baptism by Water is the Sacred Ordinance of Christ as necessary to be believed and Saving or Inward Baptism i. e. the Washing or Cleansing of the Heart or an Inward Conversion to God p. 27. So that by this the Saving Baptism must be the one or the other he places it upon the outward Waters of Baptism as necessary to the cleansing of our Souls mystical Washing away of Sin p. 31 32. therefore not upon the Inward Baptism of the Spirit for that was not sufficient he saith p. 29. No What was it good for then He tells us The inward Baptism was but a necessary Qualification for the Reception of the outward Baptism by Water p. 29. So that the Water is exalted above the Spirit or the Spirit 's Baptism But how many Infants who are Sprinkled can they prove are thus first qualified by the Inward Baptism of the Spirit What confused and bewildred work do we meet withal from some angry Opposers Upon the whole the Man's Definition of a Christian is summed up in this viz. That the Washing of Regeneration by the Word of Life the Inward and Spiritual Baptism is not Saving or sufficient to make a true Christian but Water-Baptism and whether that must be of