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A65896	The way of life and perfection livingly demonstrated in some serious animadversions or remarks and answers upon the book entituled The middle way of perfection, with indifferency between the orthodox and the Quaker, herein considered, and the naked truth as it is in Christ Jesus, opened in real love to the souls of men / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1676 (1676)	Wing W1973; ESTC R20758	42,882	60

that there is not a Good Man on Earth that sinneth not 2 d●y There is none that doth Good no not one cannot be taken ●universally for that were to contradict the Saying before of the Just Man doing Good and to bring this as a proof of the Saints State cannot be Just nor Right for it did not concern them but the Unconverted Jews and Gentiles and such as neither understood nor sought after God see Rom. 3. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. 17 18. together with the Place in the Psalms to which this refers Object In many Things we offend all if we say we have no Sin we deceive our selves page 13. Animad Nor do these comprehend the highest Growths or Attainments of Saints and Good Men in this Life it was usual both with Apostles and Prophets to personate or take in themselves with the least and weakest of those they spoke and wrote to using the Particle WEE as instance in the same Apostle cited Jam. 3. 9. Therewith curse WEE Men and 1 John 1. 6. to the End and it is also said verse 10. If WEE say WEE have not sinned WEE make him a Lyar and his Word is not in us y●t see he declares the Rem●dy as well as the Disease verse 7. If WEE walk in the Light as he is in the Light We have Fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleans●th us from all Sin and further he shews his Holy Design in what he writes in these Words viz. My little Children these Things write I unto yuo that you sin not 1 John 2. 1. Object No Man is regenerate but in Part not as if one Faculty was sanctified and not another but there remains the Principle of Corruption together with the Principle of Grace which is infused that is both Flesh and Spirit in the same Person and whatsoever ●rodeeds from the one cannot be Sin as whatsoever proceeds from the ●ther cannot be otherwise pag. 13. Animad Herein we differ for we must confess that by Degrees the Work of Regeneration and Sanctification comes throughly to be effected or perfected in every one that continues in true Faith even to a through purging out of Corruption and to a perfect Mortification of that from whence Sin proceeds be ye sanctified throughout in Body Soul and Spirit and farther They that are Christ's have crucified the Flesh with its vile Affections and it is not the Flesh meerly of it self but as it is subjected to an Evil Principle or Seed of Sin that brings forth corrupt Actions but Christ's Work is throughly to purge Sect. VI. But further seeing this Author's Opinion is that no man is Regenerate but in Part and that there remains the Principle of Corruption together with the Principle of Grace how doth he dispense with these Scriptures cited by him viz. He that cammitteth sin is of the Devil Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his Seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is b●rn of God He that is born of God keepeth himself that the Wicked one toucheth him not 1 John 3. chap. 5. To salve this he tells us that St. Augustine doth lay some two or three of these Texts together and offers us this Solution That which is born of God saith he sins not which is as much as to say there is that which is born of God in the true Christian and that which is not born of him page 13. Animad I grant that there is that which is born of God as relating to a Thing or Principle spoken of in John's Epistles as WHATSOEVER is born of God overcomes the World and this is the Victory that overcomes the World even our Faith 1 John 5. 4. well this is to our Purpose still that WHATSOEVER is born of God overcomes the World and surely then this doth not leave the world's Principle of Corruption unsubdued in true Christians but there is also WHOSOEVER is born of God doth not commit sin for is Seed remaineth in him and WHO is he that overcometh the World who relates to the Man or Person that believes in the Son of God as well as the other doth to the Principle or Seed in him so that as the holy Seed or that which is born of God comes into Dominion in Man this takes in the Creature or Soul to partake of its Nature again as the Author hath added That according to the Prevalency there is of any of these two Principles in the Soul so is the Person to have his Denomination page 13. Very true then as the Good Principle becomes prevalent in the Soul man becomes a good man or an holy and just man As for his Allegation from the Apostle in Rom. 7. That the Ap●stle did the Evil he would not saying it is no more I that doth it but Sin that dwelleth in me This it is true was a State that Paul knew in the Time of his Warfare and Travail and even in this State God had Regard to the Sincerity of his Mind wherewi●h he served the Law of God even while he was warring against the contrary Law but as I answered before this Apostle as well as others did so far condescend to the Weakness of others as not only to signifie such Exercises as he had past through but also to personate the Conditions of others to whom he wrote and spake for he could not be in all those different and various States that he represents in that Epistle to the Romans at one and the same Time when he then wrote viz. as to be both Carnal and Spiritual sold under Sin and yet freed by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Rom. 8. 1 2. with many more Instances which ●ight be cited out of the same Epistle compare Rom. 6 7 8. Chapter read them seriously also how plain is it that Paul condescended to speak as one below his own present Attainment for I speak after the manner of men because of the Infirmity of your Flesh Rom. 6. 19. To the Weak I became as weak c. see 1 Cor. 9. 22. Object What is alledged by this Writer for the Principle of Corruption remaining in the Child of God for all Men being sinners and for every Man upon Earth sinning against the Law of Works in leaving undone what it requires or doing what it forbids in Thought VVord or De●d even continually page 14. Animad I think he hath sufficienly answered himself with a Confutation distinguishing by these Texts Confession inserted in the next Section Sect. VII He confesseth That other Texts say that the Regenerated do not sin and the Blood of Christ cleanseth us from all Sin and there is no Man sins against the Law of Grace so as to leave undone what tha● requires as the condition of Life who is saved as also that all Power is committed to the Son the Law of Nature is put into Christ's Hands to be commanded

none can attain to but they that faithfully follow Christ while in the Earthly Tabernacle the Perfection of Grace here which conduceth to the Perfection of Glory hereafter admits not of the Continuance of Sin in Saints in this Life Sect. IV. Object If this Perfection which consists in a Freedom from all Sin doth remain for the Rest above I see not who there now is that can free himself from sinful Imperfection in this World pag. 10. Herein he speaks doubtfully and his not seeing the man that can fr●e himself from all sinful Imperfection is no Argument to prove that there is no such man as Christ doth so free he further saith That Perfection which belongs to the Estat of this Life is to be considered in the Kind and in the Degree of it there is a Perfection in Kind and of the Degree Animad Well this Perfection in Kind is our Business to plead for at present as namely the true Child of God or he that is born of God who hath his Seed remaining in him his Generation and King is of a pure Nature the Heavenly Birth is of a right Seed and that which is born of God overcomes the World this Birth outgrows overcomes and works out by Degrees all that is of a contrary Nature or Kind in man and that there are Fathers Young Men and Children in Growth as this Man moderately states our Doctrine And concerning his two Questions which he would fain be satisfied in viz. 1 st Whether that Degree of Holiness which is attained by any Man is not the Duty of every Man pag. 10. Answ. It is the Duty of every man to experience a Perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God and without Holiness no Man can see God every Member of Christ and every Branch that abides in him is of the Heavenly Father's purging and therefore must be throughly purged his Work is perfect and it is said to him Thy People shall be all Righteous 2 dly Whether he that failes in the least of what is his Duty doth not sin Answ. Yea But if any Man sin we have an Advocate with the Father and if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have Fellowship one with another and the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Vnrighteousness the Righteous Seed in us overcomes and works out the contrary Conces We do not deny to them that Perfection in its Kind which every Man doth and must attain unto that is saved the great D●fficulty will be only in a Right Vnderstanding of what kind of Perfection it is which is to be agreed upon by both pag. 10. Animad Seing that it is immediatly after granted That when the Scrip●ures speak of any Good Man or Woman that fears God and works Righteousness it is all one in Holy Language as the being perfect is and that to be a perfect man is to be a Just Man a Righteous Man that fears God and eschews Evil. So then the Kind of Perfection must be that of Goodness Righteousness and Justice c. Be ye Perfect as your Heavenly Father is Perfect be ye Merciful as your Heavenly Father is Merciful Luke 6. 36. or as this Man well sayes our Duty is not to sin at all to be in our kind as God in his is Perfect And indeed they who have escaped the Corruptions of the World and by the precious Promise of God are made Partakers of the Divine Nature they are conformable to his Image Partakers of his Goodness Kindness Mercifulness Long-suffering c. now this is the Kind and Nature which every true Child partakes of and grows up in both to strength and stature in Order to a future Glory though I grant all have not the same Gifts Parts and Abillities in a Way of Demonstration yet in every true Babe and Child of God there is that hidden Seed Nature and Life where in both Purity and Perfection do consist and the Perfecting of Holiness is known and from thence doth spring up the Fruits of Righteousness and though I grant that there were and may be Failings for a Time on the Creature 's Part in whom the Work of Grace is begun and a No●le Plant in the Seed or Root before it be grown up yet those Failings do not alwayes remain but even in this Life or this Side of Time are outgrown and done away by that Noble Seed and Birth of the Heavenly Father unto which the Perfection is originally ascribed and only to Man or the Soul as Partaking thereof If we confess our Sins he is Faithful and Just to forgive us our Sins and to cleanse us from all Vnrighteousness a manifest Incouragement not to continue in Sin nor to despaire because of it nor yet to believe its Continuance in us but to believe that he whose Faithfulness and Justness will allow of Forgiveness will cleanse us from all Unrighteousness for we are sure ●his Righteousness admits of no Unrighteousness at all in us The Author addeth viz. Of what Value then that Notion about this Righteousness of God which after many Years Thoughts I have offer'd in the two former Papers I leave to Time c. Animad Well I desire the Lord may yet further open this Author's Understanding with an experimental Knowledge of the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus in the Revelation thereof from Faith to Faith and this will be more to Confirmation and Satisfaction then all Man's Thoughts studied Notions and Comprehensions thereof and seeing there hath been such serious Inclinations in his Heart it is to be hoped that the Lord will answer his Expectations if he waits upon him and hath an Eye to him in that Measure of his Divine Light given Sect. V. Object There is no Man that sinneth not there is not a Just Man upon Earth that doth good and sinneth not there is none that doth good no not One page 13. Animad 1st These Places if rightly considered cannot reach or comprehend the highest State or Growth of Saints under the Gospel or of such as are born of God whom the Wicked One toucheth not and who do not commit Sin for such do Good and do not sin in doing Good but some learned Men do not understand the Words cited in the same Sense or Mood as rendred in the Translation viz. that there is no Man that sinneth not or no Man Just that doth Good and sinneth not but in the Potential viz. may not sin or no Man but that he may sin and no man Just in the Earth that doth Good and may not sin and that this concerned a Legal State or the State of a Just Man under the Law and not of a Gospel Estate or Attainment thus Dr. Gell in his Essay towards the Amendment of the last English Translation of the Bible Fol. 768 769. Besides there is a Difference between a Just Man as in the Law and a Good Man as in the Gospel it is not said

Lyar. To the second Part if every Child of God keep his Commands as they are made the Condition of Life in the New Covenant then I hope it will be granted however that the greatest and most substantial Commandments are kept and how he should then neglect the lesser or remain unfaithful in the least Things I cannot understand for ye are my Friends if ye do whatsoever I command you faith Christ and he that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much Now this great Commandment of Love being the Fulfilling of the Law must needs be therefore comprehensive of or take in the lesser Commandments and farther let it be seriously minded and considered that he that is come into the New Covenant or to be in Covenant with God is come into that Agreement and Union with him which this Covenant contains which admits not of the continuance of Sin or Breach of the Law of this Covenant and he that abides in Christ sins not he that dwells in Love dwells in God be not deceived he that doth Righteousness is Righteous even as he is Righteous 1 John 3. And this may answer what is said about the Child of God that as he is Righteous and Perfect he sins not c. and that when St. John speaks of sinning not we may observe how he counterpoises committing Sin with being Righteous or doing Righteousness to which this Author addeth The true Christian sins not so as he opposeth his being Righteous he commits not Sin as is contradictory to his doing Righteousness page 15. But still he seems here to leave Room for the Child of God's sinning or committing Sin in some Sense or other while in this World about which we differ and cannot be reconciled unless we both joyn in that Seed and Principle which lives in the child of God if we both did meet in that which is born of God which overcomes the World we should both agree about the State of him or whosoever to wit the Man of God or true child that is born of God whom the Wicked One cannot touch Sect. VIII Again since he saith The calm Protestants will grant to the Papists such a fulfilling of the Law as does constitute a Real true Righteousness and that which is perfect or entire according to the Covenant of Grace and so accepted of God unto Life c. page 15 16. Animad 'T is well that some Protestants grant thus much for this is repugnant both to the continuance and mixture of Sin and Corruption in the Children of God or with their Obedience for true and real Righteousness which is perfect and entire according unto the Covenant of Grace is what we do plead for both as to the Root and Fruits of it but I cannot see how this can consist with what he saith The most violent Papists will grant to the Protestant that this Righteousness nevertheless is not wtthout all Sin but doth both fail in the Degree which the Law exacts and is intermingled with many at least venial Transgressi●n● page 16. Although this doth somewhat agree with what this Author drives at against us yet such a mixture we cannot own nor such an interminglement of Sin with that Righteousness which is perfect and entire according to the Covenant of Grace and I see no Reason when the Soul 's great Enemy is overcome and the greater Sins washed off and the greater Pollutions done away why those venial Sins or lesser Sins should remain and there is no Reason that venial or pardonable Sins should remain or be continued after pardoned Man's Mind and Heart being changed and turned from them having repented thereof at the Time of his receiving pardon or when he receiveth Redemption through the Blood of Christ even Remission of Sins past As for standing on our own Righteousness when it is taken for Self-Righteousness in the Sense of the Prophet Isaiah chap. 64. 6. We do utterly deny and exclude it but as the Lord is o●r Righteousness by his inward Work of Grace and Sanctification in our Hearts we must forever own and stand by this with Respect to our Justification Acceptance and Peace with him as being the Ground and Original thereof to us and in us and they who exclude this inward or inherent Righteousness of God from Justification we can in no wise own their Doctrine Again between this Man 's Assenting page 16 17. that that Righteousness which is accepted of God unto Life is a real true Righteousness perfect and entire according to the Covenant of Grace and yet that this Righteousness is imperfect wherein we are justifiable by the Covenant of Mercy as Performers of the Condition here appears such an Inconsistancy as I know not how to reconcile for that which is perfect entire according to the Covenant of Grace is never deficient lame or imperfect nor yet intermingled with any Sin to make i● so as Christ being made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption we are only accepted in him justified in his Righteousness accepted in the Beloved whereby we do not exclude that Obedience on our Parts which Christ injoyns but are enabled and naturallized thereunto Confess He confef●eth that God gave his whole Law for a Covenant and if one Part only were transgressed the Condition of that Covenant is broken as well as if all were transgressed and that we must understand the like in reference to the Law of Faith or Covenant of Grace and its Observation page 17. Animad Must we so Then as perfect or full Obedience is required by the latter and unto it as by the former and much more Power and Encouragements attend this being established upon better Promises then were known under the other and in this Covenant of Grace God's Promises are Yea and Amen which concern perfect Holiness as well as the rest of the Saints Priviledges and both this Law and Righteousness of Faith require a sincere or perfect Obedience to the Word of Faith in the Heart and that in order to the compleating an absolute Justification and Salvation as the Law or Letter without doth to the Precepts therein contained but then the Man varies in what he addeth in the next Section Sect. IX Object viz. Let a Man's Sins be what they will so long as the Condition be performed he may according to this Law be judged no Transgressor page 17. Animad Whereas if this Law of Faith or Covenant of Grace must be as fully observed as the whole Law ●hat God gave to Man for a Covenant as before no Part whereof was to be broken how do these consist And if the Law be not made void through Faith but established and if it be not the Unrighteous that shall inherit the Kingdom of God but such as are washed and sanctified from all Uncleanness that are also justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God see 1 Cor. 6. Then I do not see that the Performance