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A54126	The counterfeit Christian detected; and the real Quaker justified Of God and Scripture, reason & antiquity. against the vile forgeries, gross perversions, black slanders, plain contradictions & scurrilous language of T. Hicks an Anabaptist preacher, in his third dialogue between a Christian and a Quaker, call'd, The Quaker condemned, &c. By way of an appeal to all sober people, especially those called Anabaptists in and about the City of London. By a lover of truth and peace W. P.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1674 (1674)	Wing P1271; ESTC R220484	73,223	125

him for this great Scandal to their Profession But suppose I meant the whole Law of God in that place I see no worse Consequence from my words then this That so far as man's Obedience to God's Law is requisite to his Acceptance so far only Christ became our Example For as he was not our Pattern in things that more peculiarly related to him to perform and finish so was he no more then our Pattern in that which is our constant Duty to do Now let T. H. snap and catch what he can with all his Leg●rdemains pag. 69. only take this along with him That by his Reflection upon that Argument viz. That Christ hath not SO fulfilled the Law for us as to exclude our Obedience from being requisite to our Acceptance he implies a Denyal of the N●cessity of Obeying the Law of God to Acceptance with God A Doctrine suited to his Practice contrived and continued to the Ease of Hypocrites no wonder he struggles so hard for it for without it nothing but Horror would surround him though at this rate he must not alwayes expect to escape the Blow I mean not assassinating of him a Trick that lives nearer his Complexion then mine but that Vengeance Which is the Recompence of every Soul that loveth and maketh a Lye With you the People called Anabaptists I leave this Section Right us Right your selves Right our Profession of such an Unfair Adversary and your selves of so Scandalous an Advocate § II. That T. Hicks has grosly Perverted our Writings TO Forge is bad but to Pervert may in a Sen●e be worse since it is to mis-use true words and by Disguise twist them to a Sense never intended when many times that which is false it undiscernably swallowed for the sake of something that 's true This was another Charge I exhibited again●t T. Hicks and an Argument by which I proved him no Christian I frequently in my Book took Occasion to detect him of this Unworthy Practice and more especially by 26 instances under a distinct Head containing ten page● our Principles in one Column and his Perversions in another but he seems dumb to the Charge Shall I enter him mute that may alter but not excuse the Punishment Ass●ssinating always excepted I shall Reader for thy sake and the Truth 's produce some of them that those to whom this may come may have some Account of his Carriage in his former Dialogues I. From our Belief of the Light 's Sufficiency to save he infers That all other Means are needless Dial. 1. p. 36 37. not considering it was not the Light 's Insufficiency but man's Weakness that occasion'd them He might object Insufficiency as well against God Christ Spirit Grace c. II. From our making the Illumination in man to be a natural Emanation or Product of the divine Word which made all things he wickedly turns it to An Effect of God's Power and so sayes we would make Beasts and Trees c. also divine Ibid. p. 4. III. From our asserting that the Light of Christ shineth within the Hearts of Wicked as well as Good Men He tells People in our Name that he is in the Heart of every Wicked Man as he is in his Saints Cont. p. 45 46. Though through Rebellion they partake not of his Life Power c. IV. From our affirming that God is the Teacher of his ●eople He infers That we deny all Ministry and Visible Worship though they stand in God's Power and Spirit 1 Dial. p. 42 43. V. From our believing Christ to be in his People according to express Scripture and that as such he is crucified by Wicked Men He infers That we deny Christ to be as well without as within or that he was ever crucified in the Flesh 1 Dial. p. 44. Contin pag. 37 40 42. VI. From our denying of their rigid Satisfaction that is that Christ was punished by his Father for our Sin and that Sins past present and to come are answered for And that men may be Holy by Virtue thereof though not new but old Creatures and so unholy in themselves He unworthily concludes That We disown Christ's Death and Sufferings as a Propitiation that it carried away Sins past and sealed Remission in his Blood to as many as believe And that we expect to be both forgiven and accepted not for Christ's sake nor in his Sacrifice Righteoussness but our own Works 1 Dial. p. 9 10. Contin 48 49 50 51 52 53. VII From our pleading for a Perfection from Sin and the Duty of growing to the Fulness of the Measure c. He infers Our Denyal of Perfection in Degrees and our Belief of as high a Degree of Perfection in this World as hereafter Dial. 1 pag. 48 49 50 51. VIII Because we say that such Works as are wrought by the Holy Spirit in us are necessary to Eternal Life and may in a sense be said to obtain it since the Lord hath ●o freely offered it upon the Condition of believing and ●being which are the Fruits of the Spirit of God in man T. Hicks suggests in our Name That we exp●ct to merit ●ternal Life by our good Works and those of our own Working as the Spider weaves his Webb out of his own Bowels Dial. pag. 38. Contin pag. 51 52. IX Because we say All Spiritual Liberty stands in God's Power that redeems from Sathan's Snares He inferreth That who are not of our Way should have no Liberty Cont. pag. 85. X. Because we say The Scriptures are not the great Gospel Rule but the Spirit The Dispensation of the Spirit being that of the Gospel more peculiarly and that without it we cannot understand or savingly believe any thing declared of in the Scripture and therefore that it is our Rule for believing the Scriptures them selves He basely suggests That the Quakers cast off al● Precepts in the Scriptures and so will not bring their Cheats and Impostures to the Test thereof counting them of no more Authority then Esop's Fables Dial. 1. p. 20 21 22 23 24 30 31 32 33 34 35 36. Contin Epist to the Reader Behold your Anabaptist-Preacher XI From our preaching men to a lost God and Christ that is to God and Christ whom they have lost Fellowship with He perverts it to our believing That God and Christ were in a lost or undone Condition Cont. p. 49. XII From our asserting that what was a Command to any Servant of God in old time is not so to us because so to them that is such as Moses's going to Pharoah the Performance of Types Shadows and Figur●s appointed for a Season and to pass off unless requir'd by the same Spirit anew He falsly infers That those Moral and Eternal Precepts Thou shalt have no other God but me Thou shalt not Murder Commit Adultery Steal Bare False Witness c. are not binding upon us but that we give our selves the Liberty of such horrid Principles as the contrary to those Principl●s and