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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26821	Truth's vindication, or, A gentle stroke to wipe off the foul aspersions, false accusations, and misrepresentations cast upon the people of God called Quakers, both with respect to their principle and their way of proselyting people over to them also An epistle to such of the Friends of Christ that have lately been convinced of the truth as it is in Jesus.	Bathurst, Elizabeth, d. 1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1137; ESTC R2590	87,826	120

to inform them in the Principle of True Religion for the Principle of Truth is but One I shall therefore according to the Manifestation of the Spirit given unto me endeavour to signifie What this Principle is From whom it comes and Whereto it leads PART II. Concerning the Principle of Truth What it is From Whom it comes and Whereto it leads § I. IT is a Principle of Divine Light and Life of Christ Jesus placed in the Conscience which opens the Understanding enlightens the Eye of the Mind discovers Sin to the Soul reproves for it and makes it appear exceeding sinful quickens such as accept and believe in it though they were dead in Trespasses and Sins makes them alive to God ang bringeth up into Conformity to the Image of his Son Christ Jesus that he may be the First-born among many Brethren That this Description accords with Apostolical Doctrine see Ephes. 5. 23. All things that are reproved are made manifest by the Light for whatsoever doth make manifest is Light Therefore saith Christ Iohn 3. 20 21. Every one that doth Evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved But he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his Deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Ephes. 2. 4 5 6. But God who is rich in Mercy for his great Love wherewith he loved us when we were dead in Sins hath quickened us together with Christ c. Rom. 8.29 For whom he did fore-know he also did praedestinate to be conformed to the Image of his Son that he might be the First-born among many Brethren Thus is general have I briefly described the Christian-Principle but that I may make it further intelligible unto you I feel it upon me to write more particularly that so when you shall read it by a familiar Demonstration you may the sooner be prevail'd upon to yield to its Operation § II. In the first place This Principle of which I am now writing 't is the Grace of God that brings Salvation and hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts we should live Soberly Righteously and Godlily in this Present World as saith the Apostle Tit. 2. 11 12. Even that Word of his Grace which is able to build us up and to give us an Inheritance among all those that are Sanctified through Faith which is in Christ Iesus see Acts 2. 8. By which Grace we are Called Iustified and Saved That is If we believe in the same if we receive it and continue therein grounded and settled and be not moved away from the Hope of our Calling nor from the Hope of the Gospel which we have heard and which was preached to every Creature which is under Heaven according as it is written Col. 1. 23. But if we turn this Grace into Wantonness and so receive it in vain then indeed it will not save us However this Grace of God in it self is able and sufficient to save all to whom it appears and all that believe in it and are led by it are preserved because it was by this Grace of God that his Son Christ Jesus should taste Death for every man For there is no difference between the Iew and Greek but the same Lord over all is Rich unto all that call upon him For the Lord is Gracious and full of Compassion slow to Anger and of great Kindness The Lord is good to all and his tender Mercies are over all his Works as you may read Heb. 2. 9. Rom. 10. 12. Psal. 145. 8. 9. All which are clear proofs that the Grace of God is both Free and Universal which Grace of God is else where called the Light of Jesus he being that Gift of Grace given by God to enlighten the Children of Men as 't is written of him Joh. 1. 9. He is that true Light who lighteth every man that cometh into the World And this is he whom the Father promised by the Mouth of his Prophet saying I will give thee for a Covenant of the People for a Light of the Gentiles Isa. 42. 6. The same is again spoken of Chap. 49. 6. It is a light thing that thou shouldst be my Servant to raise up the Tribes of Jacob and to restore the Preserved of Israel I will also give thee for a Covenant to the Gentiles that thou may'st be my Salvation to the Ends of the Earth And the Prophet Isaiah speaking to the Church Chap. 60. 20. saith thus The Lord shall be thine Everlasting Light To which the Prophet David brings in his Experience The Lord is my Light and my Salvation saith he Psal. 27. 1. This is indeed the mighty Saviour he upon whom the Father hath laid help and who is able to save unto the uttermost all that come unto God by him whose appearance is Light whereby he Discovers and Reproves Sin in men see therefore that none reject him For this is he who hath the Key of David that openeth the Understandings of his People by which they understand the Scciptures when they read them This is he who hath discovered himself to be God manifest in the Flesh and also doth manifest himself in our Mortal Flesh in which we dwell This is he who when he was on Earth yielded both Active and Passive Obedience to his heavenly Father in Life Doctrine and Death which I firmly do believe was a Sacrifice acceptable unto God for the Sins of Men by believing in whom and yielding Obedience to him Pardon and Remission of Sins comes to be known and so the Creature finds Acceptance with the Father through the Son This is he who justifies by Faith in his own Name This is he which imputes his own Righteousness to the Children of men without whose applicatory act and gift of Grace in imputing his own Righteousness unto us all creaturely actings are but in vain This is he that hath laid down his Life for us and took it upon again for saith he I have Power so to do John 10. 18. And by the same Power that raised his own Body out of the Grave doth and will he raise up the Souls and Bodies of Believers to glorifie his great Name For this is he that Acquits his People of all Sin old as well as new taking away and cleansing them from the Sins of their first and fallen Natures as well as pardoning upon Repentance those Sins which some have at unawares or through weakness fallen into after they have received the Knowledge of the Truth For he who is called the Light of the World Iohn 8. 12. Iohn 1. 9. the same is called the Lamb of God that taketh away the Sins of the World vers 29. And therefore was his Name called Jesus a Saviour for it was said he should save his People from their Sins Mat. 1. 21. This is he who baptizeth his People with the Water of Life and Regeneration and sealeth up his

and now hath it made me a Spiritual Traveller for Souls Eternal Well-fare AN EPISTLE To such of the Friends of Christ As have lately been Convinced of the Truth as it is in Jesus MY Dear Friends and Spiritual Relations unto whom by Grace I am allied in the Love of Truth I send you this Salutation Often have you been upon my Mind long before I found a place to write unto you For though it was first upon me to write to my former Friends and Acquaintance and Natural Relations yet you being that new Kindred spoken of by Christ Matth. 12. 50 thus are you nearer to me by the Union of his inward Grace than any unconverted thereunto can be And now I tenderly admonish you That as you are convinced of the saving Power of this Divine Principle to wit the Light of Jesus manifest in the Conscience see you constantly keep therein For Friends let me tell you Here lieth our Strength in these Times of Tryal herein is our Safety this Day of Danger in this you 'l be secure and quiet when peoples Hands shall be upon their Loins because of Fear in the Night yea though you may be come but to the Dawning of this Day of God where you can discern but the glimmering of its Light appear which may at present shew you Trouble and minister condemnation to your Souls for your Evil Deeds placing Judgment on your Heads making you possess the Punishment of your Iniquities that are past so that instead of Peace you may have great Bitterness yet be perswaded to dwell in the Judgment wait patiently upon God who draweth near to you in the Way hereof and I will assure you in this Light you shall see more Light and in it Consolation and Salvation shall be injoyed Wherefore I now write unto you Little Children in the spiritual stature being my self one of that Number by way of Exhortation To cast away your Idols keep yourselves from them say unto them Get ye hence to the Moles and to the Bats Friends you know what I mean by them turn in and I am sure the Light will let you see them and the sooner you part with them the sooner will you find Forgiveness with the Lord for the Idolatry which he hath beheld in them And when your Idols are utterly destroyed then shall you be joyned to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall never be broken And here will your Bow abide in strength wherewith you shall shoot at Mystery Babylon and see her falling down yea though her Archers may shoot sorely at you yet shall they not be able to hurt you for the Lord the Help of Israel will be a Shield before you and will turn back their Arrows into their own Quiver so shall they hang by their Sides and stick in their Hearts who privily intended to wound the Innocent without Cause Yet 't is very likely the Wicked will be pushing at you and casting scandalous Calumnies upon you in which I cannot but tenderly simpathize with you having my self lately passed those Pikes of the Enemy Renowned be the Lord of Hosts the Captain of my Salvation which caused me to march through valiantly and hath also given me the Victory so that though I speak not boastingly yet I can say The Revilings of the Vngodly do not at all dis-spirit me for now I can take their Reproaches for Christ's sake and bind them as an Ornament unto me To God be all the Glory who hath raised this Spirit of Courage and Christian-Fortitude in me and now hath called me to call on others to wait upon him that they may be thus strengthned with Might in their inward Man by him Therefore wait on the Lord be of good Courage and he shall strengthen your Hearts wait I say on the Lord as said holy David Psalm 27. 14. so shall One chase a Thousand and Two put Ten Thousand to flight Friends read inwardly so you 'll understand me I do not mean that you should avenge your selves on any with Carnal Weapons of War No no But as you stand and wait in the Light of the Lord though you can handle neither Sword nor Spear he will make you shew comely as Tirzah and terrible to the Wicked even as an Army with Banners For though the Remnant of the Just as to outward Defence are left this day like a City without Gates or Walls whom the Wicked will be PLOTTING against yet God will laugh at him for he seeth that his Day is coming and hath also given me this Confidence of Hope in him to wit That he will not give his People into the Hands of cruel Lords nor suffer Men of fierce Countenance to rule over them But they shall be as Standers in the Gap and Stakes in the Hedge though some may be but of tender growth to stop the Enemy from laying waste our Country and to stay the Lord's sore and terrible Stroke Ah Friends is it not Pity that Sin should make an Aceldama of our Nation and this City See therefore ye mind your inward Reprover that ye may be no Cause in procuring the Nation 's Misery You Children of the Light arise therefore and shine for your Light is come which will adorn your Conversation let it now appear throughout your whole Behaviour so shall your Words and Actions glorifie your Heavenly Father thus shall the Wicked see our Rock hath not sold us for stronger is he that is in us than they that are against us so though they may outwardly beset us yet we have a Rock to shelter us where the Enemy shall dispair forever of coming at us Wherefore faint not in your Minds nor be discouraged in your Spirits at the Tidings which you hear abroad but dwell within your Tent and serve the Lord with Fear everyone in your Sphear so shall you shine like Stars in their proper Orbs Yea though some of us may be but of small Magnitude as in the natural Firmament one Star differs from another Star in Glory yet as we abide in the Fear being clothed with Humility so shall we be preserved in our spiritual Station while we are as Strangers and Pilgrims on the Earth to have our Conversation honest and as much as in us lies inoffensive amongst them that are without that whereas they speak against us as Evil-Doers they may by the Good Works which they shall behold in us glorifie God in the Day of their Visitation so shall we convince the World of that Principle of Light and Grace that shineth in their Hearts which if they turn into it and obey it it will teach and enable them That denying Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts they should live Righteously Soberly and Godlily in this present World And by this Grace shall we be to those about us as Saviours in the Hand of the Lord upon Mount Sion as others have been to us when we were in spiritual Babylon Thus we being as a City

things were written afore time were written for our Learning that we through Patience and Comfort of the Scriptures might have Hope as 't is recorded Rom. 15. 4. So that it appears the Scriptures are owned of them and are believed by them and are practiced amongst them but they dare not ascribe them that Glory which is due to God nor exalt them above his Son Christ Jesus nor prefer them in his Spirit 's stead neither yet is it any Derogation from the Scriptures to exalt Christ and his Spirit more than they for Scriptures themselves exalt Christ and the Spirit above themselves so that it is not in any slight or disrespect they have to those holy Writings wherefore they do not call them the Word and the Rule of Faith and Life but as they have declared 'T is from that reverend regard they owe and ought to bear to Christ Jesus the great and eminent Word of God to whose Spirit all Scripture Directions in Matters of Salvation refer us as to an Infallible Rule and Guide They direct us thereunto that we may not live in them but in him who is the Author and Dispenser of them Thus though the Scriptures are granted to be a Righteous Rule and of Divine Dispensation for the Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the holy Ghost even as the Apostle testified 2 Pet. 1. 21. and my Soul praises the Lord that he hath preserved the Records of so many Prophecies and Testimonies of his primitive Servants through so many Contingencies unto this present Age yet can I not think that the God of infinite Wisdom and Grace whose Mercy is over all his Works would leave Mankind in so great a Concern whereon their Eternal Salvation is depending to such a Rule alone for Guidance therein as is subject to concealing Mis-translation Mis-interpretation False Application as we find the Scriptures have been by Corrupters of them Muchless can I believe that he would suffer the greatest part of the World to live without them as they do were there no other means appointed for their Salvation Yea moreover I am very sensible that where the Scriptures are many occurrances may fall out in the course of our Lives about which the Scripture gives no particular Advice and yet it is necessary we should have a Guide near in all our Affairs But I well know many Cases there are where Scripture is altogether silent in the matter Admit then here that the Creature in such a streight not knowing what to do betake it self to inquire of the Lord by Prayer alas what will that avail unless it receive an Answer which is already granted not to be found in Scripture neither can it now he had by the meer Literal Priesthood nor by their pretended Vrim and Thummim and say they who cry up solely Scripture to be the Rule of Faith and Life Neither must we expect Answer by Dream nor yet by Vision no nor by Revelation nor Inspiration for these say they are craft many Ages past Whom I ask What way then can the Creature come by Advice which till they can resolve me in I shall still retain my Opinion viz. That that inward Oracle which is a Measure of God's Spirit whereby we obtain access to him with Answer and Direction from him in all our Concerns about which we inquire of him undeniably is of greater Authority both to beget living Faith and order us therein and a more perfect Rule to guide our Lives than the outward Writings of the Scriptures which in many things leave us without either Counsel or Instruction And here I shall leave this Point which is in answer to an Accusation which is That we deny the Scriptures a thing often charged upon but never proved against the People called Quakers CHAP. II. Concerning the Humanity of Christ c. A Second Charge which I have heard brought in against the Quakers is That they deny the Humanity of Christ Iesus and the Obedience that he yielded in the dayes of his Flesh by his Sufferings Death Buriel Resurrection from the Dead together with all the benefits that thereby accrue unto Believers as also Iustification by Faith and the imputed Righteousness of Christ. Now that this hath been as falsly charged upon them as the former I shall undertake to prove by Scripture But first let me mind the Reader this I have observed viz. That there are many that have born false Witness against them yet they do not seem to accord in their Witness For first comes out a learned Doctor and he declares publickly though somewhat ambiguously that this People deny that Christ which dyed at Ierusalem to be God equal with the Father But when this was refuted so as not to be believed then comes out another and he would give the World to know as if they only deny the Son of God to have assumed Humane or man's Nature Thus their accusers contradict one another for both seem to grant we own a Christ which well they may do since they differ in Principles amongst themselves how ever they agree thus far like Herod and Pilate to unite against Jesus so have they against his Followers but I need not enlarge upon particulars since rather then they will want a Host to go out against the Quakers look but into the Muster and thou mayst see One and Twenty Divines as they give themselves the Stile enter the Lift together of whom I shall say no more here lest it should be taken for a Digression from the Answer 1 st Therefore to clear Truth from Slander both on the one hand and the other I do in the first place affirm and that upon certain Grounds viz. That all who may be rightly denominated Quakers such as Tremble at the Word of God they are of the Faith of one Substance which the ancient Christians so earnestly contented for and suffered such hard things in maintaining to wit that Christ the blessed Son of God as to his Divinity was of the same Eternal substance with the Father as may be read at large in George Bishop's Looking glass for the Times pag. 85 86. 2 dly I affirm they faithfully own the Scriptures And therefore what Iohn the Divine saw in his Revelations concerning him as 't is Recorded chap. 13.8 That he to wit Christ was the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World And what the Apostle said of him Phil. 2. 6. Who being in the Form of God thought it no Robbery to be equal with God Likewise Iohn the Evangelist in his first chapter 1.2 3. saith concerning Christ In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made for by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in Earth Visible and