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A65609	Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves, with a spiritual sword of their own forgery, whose names are here under-written their spreading spiritual murder cries up to heaven for justice, which appears clearly in this treatise ... / written in love as a fore-warning, given to all tender-hearted seeking, unsetled Christians, by Christopher Wade.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing W159; ESTC R33758	58,366	66

deceitful Tutor hath given you the slip again and hath enforced your own tongues to betray you again and to publish your own perpetual shame for by that your saying you do acknowledge in full effect with James Parnel your brother quaker aforesaid That your own confessing and forsaking your sins if you did so are and can be no other but your own meritorious works or fruits meriting and deserving mercy for you said That by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy And thus you again tender up the aforenamed ten principal quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrits by your affirming as being ing quakers That salvation cannot be merited by works but the devil leaves you not here neither but by that your affirmation he hath enforced you quakers most shamefully to pervert that inspired holy Scripture Prov. 28.13 for you over-stare Solomon's ground first laid for that his affirmation he first teaching men how to honour God in a right manner saying Honour the Lord thy God with thy substance and with the first fruits of thine encrease Prov. 3.9 hereby letting us know That God is not honoured except a man do first perform his Gospel-duties by God at that time established by mens obediently offering up to him typical sacrifices and oblations out of mens substance and first fruits of their encrease then typifying Christ to be sacrificed and his blood to be shed And it appears that if men then did not at first not only confess but also forsake their supreme sin against the Gospel of Grace and then obediently offer up to God in the very manner by him prescribed sacrifices oblations and offerings then typifying Christ to be offered up to God his Father and to be sacrificed for mens sins that that man neglecting that Gospel-duty was to be cut off from amongst his people according to Lev. 17.8 9. and they were also to bear their iniquity still Lev. 7.18 whatsoever their confessing and forsaking their other legal sins were And thus is proved that you quakers by your refusing the Gospel-imputation of the vertues of Christ lifted up and sacrificed without you for your sins as those typical sacrifices and Moses typically lifting up the brazen Serpent in the wilderness were all performed without men for mens healing And by your wilful persisting in the supreme Gospel-sin aforesaid you quakers confiding in your own meritorious confessing and forsaking your sin if in truth you do so as in truth you do not yet even by that performance you have cut your selves off from amongst God's people and whatsoeuer you fantastically fancy to the contrary you do bear your iniquities still even in your own self-Christed condition and by Scripture all legal exhortations in Scripture are to be subjected under the aforesaid supreme Gospel-sence for without mens confiding in the Gospel-Faith in Christ's blood shed all the quakers-Christs and all the quakers or any other man's Reformation is in Gods sight no other but noysome deformation for God himself inspiredly tells us plainly That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 you quakers And you quakers say That your man Christ in you is spiritual and a Spirit cannot die nor have his blood shed as when our Saviour's person was spirituallized in by and at his Resurrection it was impossible for him to die or have his blood to be shed again see Rom. 6.9 the vertues of which his blood shed you having desperately refused for your justification you having made it appear That your supposed Man Christ in you cannot possibly have his blood shed in you for your sins acted by you both before and more presumptiously now in your self Christed-quakery so that you have neither the vertues of Christ's real bloodshed without you nor within you to appear for your justification and therefore you cannot possibly confide in the vertues of any blood shed And thus you have again firmly staked down your luciferian Christs to be justified only by your own Popish works in your own confessing your legal sins and your supposed meritorious forsaking them and thereby you have rendred up again the forenamed ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites for behold you quakers if you have but one corner of a seeing eye left you to look out of your selves by what God inspiredly saith in his Scriptures which you frequently acknowledge are true see I say how highly God doth by them advance Christ's death and bloodshed and doth totally exclude works whether wrought by men or by any spirit in men whatsoever for mens justification in Rom. 3.24 25. Or secondly for the forgiveness of mens sins Ephes 1.7 Or thirdly for the doctrinal foundation of mens faith see Ephes 2.8 Or fourthly for mens reconciliation to God see Rom. 5.10 Col. 1.19 Or fifthly for mens Redemption see Ephes 1.7 1 Pet. 1.13 Or sixthy for the onely way for mens encouragement to enter by Faith even into the holy place before God Heb. 10.19 All which places and very many more such are fastned to mens faith in Christ's death and blood shed without men and they are all confirmed by that grand Scripture-principle That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 and works are totally excluded Blood is blood you quakers and works are works but they are not Christ's is blood And yet you high-flown quaking Christs are so stifned in impudency that you are not ashamed to establish your Christed indignity by popish meritorious works and yet desperately to face it out and in full effect calling the living God of heaven and earth to testifie for you that you mean no such matter But know you quakers That though it is written Work out your own salvation Phil. 2.12 yet the Apostle in the very next Chapter sheweth how they should work that out he telling them that they were to work or strive for the Faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 through Faith in Christ's blood Rom. 3.25 but not of works Ephes 2.8 And beloved the quakers choice principle being That every believer is justified by Christ alone without Imputation There is in this also included That as Christ himself hath authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of man John 5.27 and so hath power to forgive sins on earth Matth. 9.6 that so every quaker Christ man or woman must upon necessity conclude that they have authority to judge and justifie their own particular persons to be as free from all sin in them as Christ himself is and thereby they justifie themselves to be Christ for they refuse any Christ to be without them to judge and justifie them And thus that dark speech aforesaid comes forth cleered shewing how and by what authority every believer to wit every believing quaker do justifie themselves and so every such believer is justified by a self-quaker-Christ alone without any imputation which being done then there is a quakers self-constituted Christ holy and perfect in all respects inherently without any additional imputation of

and he also sheweth us what kinde of Faith it was which he even at the very time of the finishing of his course onely gloried in and that his faith was not a believing on him that justifieth no man but such men that are free from all sin in them and so are perfectly and inherently godly men no not so neither but on the direct contrary he sheweth to us and you quakers also that his saith was his believing on him that justifieth the ungodly whose faith is counted to him for righteousness Rom. 4.5 he thereby plainly declaring that though he had sin him in his outward man or flesh even at the very time of his finishing his course yet that his faith in his inward man was even at that very time his righteousness with God by Christ and accordingly he even then gloried onely in this that by his fighting a good fight he had kept the faith even at his finishing his course and agreeable thereto the whole scope of his Gospel is the advancing of mens faith in Christ's precious blood shed without them and his totally excluding works from mens justification And hereby it is firmly proved that St Paul was not free from sin in him at the very finishng his course And as these two examples of St. David and St. Paul do set forth the true conditions of all Saints whilst they are living on earth so it again proveth that you quakers are satanical decieving lyers And whereas I do finde that James Nayler hath laid his foul fingers of quakery upon the undefiled truth of that verse Rom. 4 5. I shall wash off that soyl God willing at some other time And now to shew you quakers whom I finde to be groping in the dark the eyes of your understandings being darkened and dazeled with your inward great quakish light you boast of what is the true cause next under the devil himself your teacher why you quakers do so frantickly and wildely straggle quite away from the truth of the Scripture which is first because you frequently affirm that the Scriptures are not your Rule and truly in this I do verily believe you for I do finde it to be even so In the second place that though God hath inspiredly declared in his Scriptures that there is an inward and outward man in one and the same man in Gods account and estimation yet you are trayld away from this true Scripture-distinction so far that by your quakish Doctrine you do vainly conclude That if any man be free from the guilt of sin in God's Gospel-account that that man even upon necessity must be totally free from all tincture of the pollution of sin in him both in his inward man or minde and in his outward man or flesh also which is directly contrary to the Scriptures for St. Paul saith I delight in the law of God after the inward man Rom. 7.22 which saying of his doth unseperably set forth that there was even at that very time an outward man comprehended in St. Paul's person which he calls his members vers 23. his flesh vers 25. more cleerly to set forth his distinction he further saith With the minde I my selfe serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin vers 23. and he yet further cleereth this distinction where he twice affirmeth If I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin dwelleth in me vers 16. and vers 20. and it 's already proved that St. Paul was not free from sin in him no not at the finishing of his course And therewith he doth cleerly shew That as in him so in all other Gospel-believers an inward man or spirit of the minde wherewith and wherein they serve the Law of God as St. Paul did Rom. 7.25 without guil and hypocrisie in their integrity and this St. Paul owned to be in himself which inward man so acting is esteemed of God to be the man or that he which is born of God in every true Gospel-believers person which sinneth not neither indeed can sin in that sin which is un●o death though thorow the strength of temptations working upon the infirmity of their outward man or flesh there may be some sin that is not unto death sound in their persons all which St. John who was born of God yet even then acknowledgeth himself to be amongst other Saints one sinner 1 John 1.8 onely he distinguisheth betwixt that sin which is not unto death in which even that person who is born of God in his inward man may probably through infirmity be found sinning in his outward man and that sin which St. John intimates is against the holy Ghost which is unto death which he that is born of God neither doth nor can sin because he is born of God all which truths St. Iohn sheweth in full effect in 1 Ioh. 3.9 and more fully in 1 Ioh. 5.16 17 18. but the quakers Tutor will not permit them to see the Truth But St. Paul yet further confirmeth his distinction aforesaid where he saith in plain and full effect That with his outward man or flesh he served the law of sin Rom 7.25 and this his outward man or flesh though it was even then a part of his own person yet he owned it not to be himself for he brands that his outward man or flesh to be another law in his members flesh or outward man warring against the law of his minde v. 23. which his inner man or minde he owneth to be himself v. 25. that sinned not And now behold you quakers how amongst others these three holy and with God highly esteemed Saint● Job David and Paul do accordingly yet further confirm this Scripture-distinction unanimously together Behold I say how stifly stoutly and boldly that holy man Job stood it out even with God himself to justifie himself in his inner man to be perfectly without guile in his integrity he desiring in that respect saying Let me be weighed in an even ballance that God may know mine integrity Job 31.6 and yet notwithstanding all this height of his boldness to justifie himself in his inner mans perfection in his integrity yet he durst not in the least measure stand to justifie himself to be free from sin in his outward man but on the flat contrary he as it were mournfully said If I justifie my self mine own mouth will condemn me if I say I am perfect it will prove me per verse Job 9.20 see also the 30 and 31 verses therein No no though he so boldly stood it out even with God to justifie the perfection of his integrity of his inward man yet he as it were cries out against the imperfection that was even then in his outward man and in this respect he soars up upon the wings of his faith and flies quite out of himself to rest in his Redeemer onely he then saying I know that my redeemer liveth c Iob 19.25 and even so you

measure to be discouraged at the quakers sufferings nor at their miracles 14 That the quakers have had at their Meeting persons that have skreeked yelled and howled which is the conditions of Night-Owls and infernal spirits and of dogs and devouring wolves 15 That fearful and hideous howling is ordinary with the quakers My first and second Discourse against the QUAKERS In which anatomizing of the Quakers or ripping their foul spiritual intrails open to publick view I shall first speak to James Nailer FIRST JAmes Nayler why hast thou garnished the beginning of thy book which as applied to thy Doctrine thou hast rightly named it Satan's Design discovered with cowardly dissembling hypocrisie to delude the hearts of the people which doth appear plainly where thou darest to say in thy Reply to Thomas Moor thy godly Opposer The Lord be Judge betwixt me and that lying murtherous Spirit whether I own any other Righteousness then that everlasting Righteousness of God wrought in the person of Jesus Christ of Nazareth his Sufferings Resurrection and Ascension according to the Scriptures These are thy words James and herewith if no notice be taken that James Nayler doth not say That he owneth no other works or righteousness then those which were wrought in the person of Christ without his or any other mens bodies for his or their justification before God then who would think but that James by that this own good confession against Quakery were a very honest man and be ready to stand up in his defence and say Doubtless people do much wrong James to think that he is of the Q●akers Opinion to be saved by legal works wrought in their bodies No no James app●ars to be none of those deluded Quakers doth not he his own self say That he owneth no other righteousness then that everlasting righteousness of God wrought in the person of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and calls God to judge him if he means not the same things he speaks his words are to that effect in full you see Then what would you have a man to say can he speak plainlier against Quakery then he 〈◊〉 But yet notwithstanding those his hypocritical word all his Doctrine doth b●and him for an equivocating deluding Dissembler by his so saying but James hath hereby mentally kept open a back-door to come in with his Quakery again as Ralph Sherwine a notorious Jesuite-Papist did in Popery who was hanged at Tiburn in Anno 1581. notwithstanding his Confession of his Faith against Popery he saying That in me and of me there is nothing but sin and abomination and I trust only to be saved by the death blood-shedding of Jesus Christ And some Papists have made the same good Confession in my hearing and yet do remain as absolute Papists as ever they were as it appears that thou James Naylsr dost remain in thy Quakery still in full notwithstanding thy formerly-dissembled good Confession appearing in full opposition against Quakery And to bring in his own evidence against himself that he doth thereby dissemble to delude note That Tho. Moor his Opposer hath in his printed Epistle to his Antidote charged him That he James Nayler did say That as Christ bore sins in his own body that died at Jerusalem so he had borne sins in his body too and so that his first appearing to take away sin by the sacrifice of himself had been manifested and accomplished in him yea that death in which it was appointed men once to die was past in him and Christ's second appearing without sin unto Salvation manifested and accomplished in him And James Nayler doth not deny in his Reply to that Charge of Tho. Moor's but that those sayings are his Thus by J. N's own words appears clearly that he doth not own Christ's Righteousness wrought by him without men in Christ's own person for his justification but as it is wrought in James Nayler's own body which is in full directly contrary to his former seeming good Confession against Qu●kery unto which he calleth God to witness But yet further to manifest his wicked dissimulation SECONDLY Richard Huberthorne his brother Quaker steps in and bears this testimony in print which shews that J. N. is a dissembling hypocrite he saying in Saul's Errand pag. 8. That Christ in Scripture Letter without men and in his flesh without men is their example or figure which are both one that the same things might be fulfilled in them that was fulfilled in Christ Jesus Now beloved what is there affirmed in this his saying less then this That men following Christ's example must have their hands and feet nailed to a Cross and have their bodies wounded and blood shed and suffer a personal death thereon as Christ did But this is but a taste of their ignorant nonsence Hah James couldst thou not finde some opportunity or other to step to Richard Huberthorne and whisper him in the ear and perswade him not thus to play the fool in print and advise him not to publish these profound secrets of Quakery that you might make more close use of them amongst your allured proselytes as they grew up able to bear them And had it not been more credit for thee James to have stood up to thy colours like a man though a deluded man and not to have so cowardly betrayed thy Profession and thy silly dependant Quakers by shrinking in thy quakish head and prostrating thy self under odious dissimulation and treacherous hypocrisie But James Nayler hath hereby proved himself to be a dangerous dissembling equivocating hypocrite And Richard Huberthorne though he hath without equivocation discovered his own and James Nayler's falshoods plainly yet for his so grossly affirming in full effect that Christ died without men for mens example only he shall lye also with his brother Quaker James Nayler in his own deluded and deluding habit And now to shew how substantially James Nayler hath proved himself to be a notorious lyer upon his own Record in print observe that he in his ninth page doth charge Thomas Moor that he would deny the infallible Spirit of God for giving the sense of the Scriptures whereas Thomas Moor having spoken of the Pope and others that took upon them to give the sense of the Scrip●ures he then saith These ●o wit the Quakers that follow differ not much they say it must be some Spirit of or in them to wit the Qu●kers which they suppose to be infall●ble Oh horrible insolency doth T. M. hereby deny the Spirit of God to give the sense of the Scrip ures doth be no● only deny the false Spirit that is in them the Quakers to g●ve the sense of the Scriptures And but for brevity s●ke I could and would set forth many more such horrible lyes of his And to shew how apparently James Neyler doth prove himself to be a soul-mouthed envious sl●nder●● ●●ace T●●at James Nayler to blast Tho. Moor his Opposers true D●●●●●● 〈◊〉 in his Title page affirm T●at ●e T. M.

Declaration against all Popery and Popish Points they thereto appeal to the presence of the living God of Heaven and Earth and in their 5 and 6 pag. they do affirm That they and every of them also do believe and know that Salvation cannot be merited by Works and all Doctrines in affirmation of the said Points they and every of them we do renounce and bear witness against and do deny all equivocation mental reservation and secret evasion whatsoever speaking the words of Truth in plainness by the help of God These be their words And now I shall make trial by their Doctrines whether these ten quakers be not such dissembling Hypocrites as James Nayler their brother quaker hath shewed himself to be yea or no. To which end we are duly to observe That George Fox their fore-man being asked as appears pag. 12. of Saul's Errand whether a believer were justified by Christ's righteousness imputed yea or no. He answered saying Every beliver is born of God and he that is born of God is justified by Christ alone without imputation These be his words And hereby George Fox their fore-man to make sure work in this query against themselves hath utterly refused all or any imputation of Christ's righteousness to be applied to the quakers for their justification even all Gospel-imputation of Christ's righteousness to them whether Christ's person be in them as they falsly say he is in them God and Man or that Christ's person be without them as in truth it is all 's one with them in this great Point of mens salvation for Gerge Fox their fore-man hath made no reserve but hath desperately refused all or any imputation of Christ's righteousness to them in general And as he in the behalf of the quakers hath totally refused the help of God's gracious Gospel so he and the other nine quakers aforenamed have together totally renounced and denied all meritorious work for mens salvation and so they have refused the help of the Law also But now see beloved what their own great writing teaching-brother quaker James Parnel doth affirm to prove all those ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites a for he shrinks not to lay forth the true Grounds of quakery without any equivocation in his 2 page of his book called A Shield of the Truth he in the behalf of himself and all quakers there saying We to wit we quakers desire to be judged according to our fruits which is no less then if he had said We quakers desire to be judged according to our own meritorious works or fruits But yet whatever thus appears to be in the mental bosome-reserves of the aforesaid ten quakers to which but for brevity sake I could produce the testimony of more quakers yet the aforesaid ten quakers have desparately refused and cast away from their use not onely all Gospel-imputation of Christ's righteousness in general whether Christ's person be in them or without them but also all legal meritorious words as being no wayes helpful to them for their salvation And hereby they have strongly barred themselves quite out from injoying any benefit from God for their salvation either by his Law or Gospel for they have totally denied all God's revealed and established wayes which he did propound legally to Adam before his fall or hath at any time since his fall declared by his Gospel for the salvation of men and though God hath declared no other way but one of these two ways for mens salvation yet the quakers have as is afore shewed desperately shut themselves quite out from injoying any benefit from God by any of them both and yet doubtless the quakers do deludedly conceit That they shall be saved Therefore in pursute for the discovery of the depths of Satan in the quakers mystery of iniquity I am now put to search out what that hidden secret way is in which the quakers do confide for their salvation but I need not search much because I do see it appear that every quaker must be enabled to account and esteem of their particular person to be Christ or else for the causes aforesaid they cannot enjoy the least right quakish hope of Salvation I say again and shall stand to maintain it so long as God gives strength That if any quaker be not enabled by their grandsire Daemon to esteem and account of their own particular persons to be Christ who needeth not any imputation of righteousness nor any meritorious works to be applied or added to his holy eternal essential perfect divine perfection that so long as they are not so enabled to esteem of their particular persons to be Christ they cannot have the least right quakish hope to strengthen them to conclude they shall be saved but to obtain in themselves this quakish comfort it is evident that they do declare themselves to be Christ totally without sin as Christ is for so they plainly say As he is so are we in this world satanically perverting that Scripture 1 John 4.17 for that doth not say As Christ is in his glorified person in heaven without sin so are we in this world but it signifieth to us That as Christ is despised of many in this world and his Doctrine refused and by many contemned in this world and especially by the quakers that so his servants are by many despised and Doctrines contemned by many in this world and especially by the quakers in this Christian world but the quakers from that place of Scripture soar up with their Antichristian wings and affirm That they are without sin in them as some of them have said of themselves in my hearing and from hence they conclude they are Christ that needeth neither imputation of righteousness nor meritorious works to be added to them and from this ground conceited they also utterly refuse both those helps both of Gospel and Law also which is afore firmly proved from their own mouths and to say as the Truth is they to uphold their self-Christed indignity must upon urgent necessity do so for if they imbrace to them as needful for their salvation the Gospel-imputation of righteousness and meritorious works by the Law or either of them both then they do destroy totally their self-constituted perfect holy Christhood by their thereby acknowledging that they have sin in them that do stand in need of those additional helps for their Salvation and then drops not onely their self-advanced Christhoods but also therewith the devils whole kingdom of quakery is thereby totally destroyed root and branch for some of the quakers have said in my hearing That if any man have not attained to a full perfection from all sin in him before his death that that man hath lost all his labour in his striving against sin And as for your quakers satanical evasion where you affirm That though some of the servants of God fell yet by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy These are your quakish confirming words And hereby your