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work_n	create_v	good_a	workmanship_n	4,350	5	11.8942	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29131	The Quakers vvhitest divell unvailed, and their sheeps cloathing pulled off, that their woolvish inside may be easily discerned in answer to a letter subscribed Iames Naylor, a professed Quaker / written by Ellis Bradshavv.	Bradshaw, Ellis.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4148; ESTC R20539	7,101	12

THE Quakers VVhitest DIVELL UNVAILED And their sheeps cloathing pulled off that their Woolvish inside may be easily discerned In Answer to a Letter subscribed Iames Naylor A Professed Quaker For even Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light no marvell then if his Ministers transform themselves into the Ministers of righteousnesse Written by ELLIS BRADSHAVV Printed Anno Dom. 1654. The Quakers LETTER To all the faithlesse generation of the world and to all who desire to know in what faith and hope we live and what faith and hope we deny THat Faith which we own and witnesse is that Faith which stands in Jesus Christ the everlasting Covenant of Light who is the Light of the world and hath enlightened every one that comes into the world and this Light we believe and follow and by this Light we are led out of all the wayes works and worships of this dark world and the effects of this Light we witnesse by faith and by this Faith we do deny all who say this light is not sufficient without the help and teaching of man to lead and guide in all the wayes of God and all such we deny for these are they who know not the voice of Christ and therefore hear ye stranger and hireling who heaps up teachers having itching ears who cannot endure sound Doctrine and in this Christ we believe who is our life and salvation and all them we deny and their faith and who say they have Faith but their life is not the Life of Christ but lives in sin and worldly pleasures and say they cannot be saved from their sins in this world but in part and this faith we deny and them for these are they who deny the end of Christs coming in the flesh who cannot believe that Christ is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto him and this Faith is reprobate and these deny the Lord that bought them and have made shipwrack of Faith and a good conscience and makes the bloud of Christ of none effect to them who are not elected by it and all them and their faith we deny who say they believe and know the will of God but they have not the power but that Christ in which we believe is the great power of God to salvation in all that believe and who hath this Christ hath power and in him we have power to do the will of God but these are they who know not Christ nor his power but run after men into notions and formes but denies the power and from all such we turn away for such know not him in them who is greater than he that is in the world but are willing to serve sin and to be led captive at the devils will not minding the Light and power of Christ to be guided by it and then would seem to cast the fault on God as though he had given a Christ which is not able to set them free till after death and these are they which put him to open shame whose Faith and Profession we deny And we deny all these who say they have Faith in Christ and yet their righteousnesse is not perfect but this Faith we witnesse that receives the righteousnesse of God even the free gift of righteousnesse by Jesus Christ and this is perfect which is the righteousnesse of Faith and all who have not this righteousnesse are in the self righteousnes which is not perfect and those come short of the Righteousnesse of God and would establish their own righteousnesse but these are the boasters which justifie themselves and despise others but by the righteousnesse of Faith is boasting excluded and here is no justifying of self but denying self and self-righteousnesse and exalting the Righteousnes of God wch is perfect wch is in Christ Jesus who is made unto us righteousnesse and sanctification And by this Faith we deny all who say they have Christ and have not this Righteousnesse but whose righteousnesse is imperfect and that Christ and that righteousness we deny which is not perfect and witnesse that Christ in which we are made the righteousnesse of God and this Christ is our righteousnesse and perfection and this faith we own and witnesse which is not a talk of faith as the worlds Professors who say they have Faith but are dead in sins and trespasses and cannot witnesse the work of God in them but that Faith we own which is lively by which the work of God is witnessed in us working out sin and by which we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works and this Faith we witnesse which overcomes the world and the devill and all you we deny who have a profession in the world and in whom the works of the devil are brought forth and their faith and hope we deny who say they hope to be saved and yet live in sin making a Profession and this is the hope of the hypocrite which shall perish and not the hope of Christ for he that hath this hope of Christ purifieth himself even as he is pure and this faith and hope we own which purifies the heart and enters into the place of holinesse within the Vail but that which is without holinesse we deny which is not in Christ but in a vain minde And we deny all who say they have faith and yet their word and light is without them for the word we witness which is nigh even in the heart and this is the word of faith which the Apostles preached and he that hath Christ or faith hath this word which is Christ the Light not in Letter but in Spirit And all them we deny whose Law is without and morrall and that Law we witness which is spirituall within written in the heart and this Law is perfect and endures for ever and all the changeable Lawes we deny and all those Lawes without we see to be in the old Covenant of works which made nothing perfect and the felf righteousness which is filthy rags and by the Light of Christ are we convinced of that righteousness not to be of Faith therefore whose faith and works stand here them we deny and see them all worshipping without the new Covenant in the oldness of the Letter whose Law is without and their Light without their word without their Church without their Baptism praises and singing without their Christ without their righteousness without and so their Faith without all which we witness to be within and within we worship in newness of Spirit and we see all that are without God and his Righteousness to be in the world and strangers to the Covenant of Grace and that faith and worship we deny which God denyes who seeks such as worship him in Spirit and Truth and this Faith and worship we own not known to the world and therefore hated JAMES