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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64913	Truth and innocency defended being a sober reply to some excesses in a treatise written by John Norris, concerning the divine light, wherein his personal reflections and misrepresentations of the Quakers about their principle of the light are further considered.	Vickris, Richard, d. 1700.	1693 (1693)	Wing V341; ESTC R22212	75,043	73

TRUTH AND INNOCENCY Defended Being a Sober Reply to some Excesses in a Treatise written by IOHN NORRIS concerning the Divine Light Wherein his Personal Reflections and Misrepresentations of the Quakers about their Principle of the Light are further considered By RICHARD VICKRIS Let not the Wise man glory in his Wisdom c. But let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which exercise Loving-kindness Iudgment and Righteousness in the Earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord Jer. 9.23 24. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell-Lane in Shoreditch in the Year 1692 3. The EPISTLE to the READER Friendly Reader THere is nothing so desirable as Peace and Concord I know the very name of Controversie sounds harsh in the Ears of many sober People besides my self and those whose Cause I am vindicating But forasmuch as it is become the subject of the ensuing Treatise I judge it convenient to acquaint thee that whatever Motives my Adversary had in giving the occasion it is not for the sake of Controversie nor any worldly Interest or advantage sought by me but singly for Truth and Innocencies sake that I thus appear in defence of both from gross misrepresentation and a very ill Character wherein my Adversary has exceeded to that degree as if he designed by that means to make his words good viz. That I should have occasion to wish I had never put him upon this undertaking for I seriously profess that laying aside the Abuses and Insults of his Book I see no occasion for such a conjecture If Truth and Righteousness had been his Basis Sobriety and Temperance would have been his Ornament but this being wanting his Argument proves fallacious and his Treatment uncivil and Injurious which excited that degree of aversion in me that I was ready at first to conclude to bear his Reproaches with silence But the consideration of the Truth I profess as being exposed by his gross misrepresentation and calumny oblieged me to this further concern My design herein being to undeceive and give a better and truer information of the Quakers Principle of the Divine Light to the sober minded and honest enquirer then I. N. hath done wherein I have aimed at something more then Controversie viz. such an Illustration of the Principle of Divine Light as may be useful and serviceable to most Capacities as concurring with Scripture-Language and confirmed with its divine Testimony And though I have not given it the Title of such a Treatise I hope it will be found not less deserving it then my Adversaries I shall now apprehending it in some sort necessary acquaint thee with the occasion hereof I. N. writes a Book entituled Reflections on the Conduct of Human Life c. which Title carried the face of something worthy of enquiry and search and to do him Justice there are many excellent expressions and undeniable Truths in it And although divine Experience and enjoyment is of much more value with the Quakers then the finest Speculation or Notion yet many were pleased with the subject especially considering from whence it came because they look upon it as tending to promote the Principle of Divine Light which according to the Quakers is not only perfective of the understanding but is that Grace of God that brings Salvation and hath appeared unto all men teaching to deny Ungodliness and worldly Lusts and to live Godlily Righteously and Soberly in this present evil world whereby the Soul comes to experience Redemption throughly not only to have the understanding enlightned but the will and affections Rectified and purified Thus the Quakers Rejoycing in the Truth was ready and willing to believe I. N. intended the same thing by his Notion of the Light and for the sake thereof would have born his unkind Reflection on them had he stopt there But how it came to pass I know not after he had said positively This is Truth this is that Light within so darkly talkt of by some who have by their Auckward untoward and unprincipled way of representing it discredited one of the noblest Theoryes in the world but the thing in it self rightly understood is true and if any shall yet call it Quakerism or Enthusiasm it is such Quakerism as makes up a good part of St. John 's Gospel and St. Austin 's Works Reflect on the Cond c. pag. 77. After this I. N. puts forth in his second Edition an Aditional Postscript in which whether from an Emulation of the Quakers Claim to the Principle he asserted Jealousie of being esteemed a Proselite shame of his Brethrens Reproaches fear of loss of preferment or affectation of Novelty I dare not determine but sure I am he hath greatly misrepresented the Quakers belief and doctrine of the Light within offering instead of their words and sence the Conjectures and Imaginations of his own Brain for which unfair dealing I was concerned to reprehend him which I did in a little Book entituled A Iust Reprehension to I. N. for his unjust Reflections on the Quakers But my plain dealing therein and manner of address not being attended with the usual Complements was so ill resented by him that he Indited me for Rusticity and Rendred me below the breeding even of a Water-man for want as he pretends of fair and civil Language but in Truth it is for want of Courtl●ness of stile and behaviour wherein I perceive he apprehends my Treatment of him was defective That I. N. Master of Arts Late Rector of Newton St. Loe near Bath and newly advanced to Bermerton near Sarum Late fellow of All Souls Colledge in Oxford a man of Refined Notions one that has undertaken to Reflect on the Conduct of those of his own Order as being able to discover such profitable Truths as they after all their studdy were Ignorant of should be Reprehended by a Quaker A Man of that sullen tribe whose visible Mark and Character is Rusticity as he says pag. 2. Is with him such an Intollerable piece of Rudeness as cannot be born without rendring him an affronting and provoking Adversary Therefore to purge himself from disingenuity Misrepresentation and ill Character of the Quakers and their Principle as also contradiction and error as signed against him He writes another Book called Two Treatises concerning the Divine Light The first being an Answer as he saith to a Letter of a Learned Quaker c. And contains an Explanation of his former Misrepresentation of the Quakers principle of the Light within with divers quotations out of some of their Authors with design to make good his Charges but instead thereof he hath made his matter much worse than before for being short and wanting of proof he hath laid the whole stress of his Charges both new and old upon most unjust and partial Inferrences and unfair and undue Consequences contrary to the very express words and sence of the Authors he quotes which has