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A65886	A serious account in XXXV evident reasons (to all who desire satisfaction) why the people of the lord, called Quakers, cannot go to worship at those places called churches and chappels, and to inform the magistrates and ministers that such consciencious people (as are separated from these places) ought not to be compelled (from their peaceable meetings) to their worship and churches, so called, being a short discovery of the way, worship, and principles of the true ministers and persecuted people of God, in several exceptions against the practices, worship, and principles of the priests, both of the Presbyterians, and Episcopal-men, and others of the same affinity, in some of which principles the Presbyterians are the rather concerned, but in others of them, both are concerned in the general / by Geo. Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1661 (1661)	Wing W1956; ESTC R20306	27,063	42

silent from their preaching to them to believe if all may not believe and people need not spend their money to the Priests for their deceitful preaching to them for what God hath determined shall come to passe without their Trade of Preaching for Money But this I say that the Saints were elected of God thorow the sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the Truth unto obedience 2 Thess. 2.13 1 Pet. 1.2 and their Election stood in the Seed which obtained the Promise which was before the World was And the cause of mens being reprobated is their Disobedience and Rebellion in the Evil seed against that which may be known of God which is manifest in them For even as they liked not to retain God in their knowledge God gave them over to a Reprobate mind Rom. 1. And many that may be saved and may enter into Rest may come short thorow unbelief and the deceitfulness of sin And some that have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of God if they shall return thither again and be entangled therein their latter end is worse than the beginning See Isa. 1.16 17 18 19 20. Ezek. 18.20 to the end of the Chapter Heb. 4. chap. 6.5 6. 10.26 2 Pet. 2.1 20 21 22. So that the cause of man's destruction doth not lie on God's part nor is the fault his but mens Iniquity and Rebellion against the Grace of God given them and wilfully submitting themselves to the Wicked One who is the Author of all Iniquity VIII Of Original Sin ANd whereas the Priests accuse all men except Christ both the Wicked and the Righteous and the Infants who never actually committed sin to be guilty of Original Sin more or lesse from the first Parents c. To this I say that it was the Devil that was the Author and Original of all Sin and cause of men's being guilty of Sin when they transgress the Righteous Law of God within and are in the state of Adam in the transgression and in that unrighteous nature by which all in that state are the Children of Wrath but it was not barely the first Parents eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge and so their sinning alone that made men guilty or by nature the children of wrath Though by one man who is the Man of Sin Sin entered into the world and Death by Sin but men being naturally subject to the power of Darkness in themselves and their coming under the nature which brings death and the guilt and causeth the curse upon them For death hath passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 and hath reigned from Adam to Moses over them that have not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression But the Righteous who are begotten again into the Divine Nature of the second Adam and come to be of the Seed which the Blessing is to which is of Abraham such are brought to see the Devil and his works destroyed and are come out of the first Adam's state and nature which was in the transgression Gal. 3.9 2 Pet. 1.4 1 Jo. 3. But whereas some of the Priests have affirmed That Infants in the Mother's womb and such as have not actually committed sin are guilty of Original Sin from Adam by Imputation which they say is enough to condemn them To this I answer That Sin is not imputed when there is no Law Rom. 5. and the Law was added because of transgression What then have Infants in the Mother's womb the Law or are they then capable of the Law that was added because of transgression for it is the righteous Law or Light of God within every man that causeth Sin to be imputed where that Law is transgressed So that of this Law the Priests have in this as in many other things shewed themselves to be exceeding ignorant And though the Curse follow the Seed of the Evil-doer and such as are estranged from the womb who are in that rebellious nature which causeth the Wrath to come upon them Yet some were sanctified in the womb and some filled with the Holy Ghost and so sanctified from the womb Jer. 1.5 Luke 1.15 and some were perfect from the day they were created until the Iniquity was found in them Ezek. 28.15 And this Proverb shall not be used That the Fathers have eaten soure Grapes and the Childrens teeth are set on edge but every man shall dye for his own Iniquity every one that eateth the soure grapes his teeth shall be set on edge Jer. 31.29 The soul that sinneth it shall die Ezek. 18.4 So that we have greatly seen the Priests Ignorance about Original Sin and the Imputation of it and their accusing the Righteous as being guilty of it And now with the Light of the Lord who it is that fashioneth the Child in the womb are we come to see the two Seeds and the two Births the one of which is shapen in Iniquity and conceived in Sin and this the Judgment and Hatred of God follows and takes hold upon but the other hath the Lord covered in the womb and written all its Members in his Book when they were not fashioned Psal. 139. And where this Birth is brought forth the Lord maketh him to hope when he is upon-his Mothers breasts for he is cast upon the Lord from the womb Psa. 22.9 10. Now all that come to the Light of the Lord and to witness the Key of David who saw these two Seeds in him before he came to the Victory or had the Evil seed cast out such must come to see and be sensible of these two in them and when each acts or speaks in them before they come to see the Warfare accomplished or the Victory obtained in the Righteous Seed over the contrary And such as can truly discern these and the nature of each Seed they can read what Jacob and Esau is in the Mystery the one of which God loves and the other he hates and here that is seen wherein men are Children of Wrath and that wherein they become Children of God and inherit his Blessing IX Of the Serpent and the forbidden Fruit. ALso the Priests Ignorance and gross darkness hath appeared who have affirmed That the forbidden Fruit which the Serpent tempted Eve to eat of was an Apple From which Dream of theirs the picture of a Snake and an Apple in its mouth in a Tree with the image of a Man and a Woman are set up at the beginning of Bibles and in many other places from which some have imagined that the Serpent which beguiled Eve was a visible Creature or Beast of the field which for that time had power to speak and to present an Apple to deceive Eve withal when as God said to Man and Woman before the Fall Behold I have given you every Herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the Earth and every Tree in the which is the fruit of a Tree yeelding seed to you

sackcloth use to walk Psal. 69.11 12. when many of them do walk in their gaudy Attire and in therr Silks Ribbons and Lace and thus they use Falshood and shew themselves as Mockers of God to whom they sing many more Lyes than these And thus their Leaders cause them to erre Therefore this confused and false Worship at these places called Churches and Chappels which is neither practised with the Spirit of Christ nor with understanding we cannot own it nor joyn with the World in it for the Lord himself hath taught us his Way and Worship which is contrary to the Worlds IX Of their Sinning in their best Performances ALso the PRIESTS have often said in their Confessions that they sin in their best Performances as in their Preaching Praying and Worshipping and that they had need to pray that the sins of their holy Duties and iniquities of their Holy things may be forgiven from which it follows that they may pray for Forgiveness all their life-time and be no better in that they sin in their praying or holy Duties as they confess so that alwayes when they pray or preach they sin and have the sin thereof to crave forgiveness for And therefore it is contrary to our Faith to joyn with them in their sinful worship and performances or to give them money for them for the true Ministers and Saints performed their Duties to the Lord in his Spirit and Truth and preached the Truth as of sincerity and as of God so spake they in Christ in whom is no sin 2 Cor. 2.17 1 Joh. 3.5 X. Of the Trade of their Preaching ANd so we finding the Priests both of the Presbyterians and Episcopal men so called so much in error both as to the manner of their Education to their Ministry and in covetous practices envy pride and false worship we have just cause to deny them who are brought up to be Teachers as natural men to a Trade and make a Trade of Preaching and so serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies And this appears the more against the Priests in that when I queried the Priests and Scholars of Cambridge about their Degrees viz. Why they have these names Batchelers of Arts Masters of Arts Batchelers of Divinity Doctors of Divinity c. To this they answer thus viz. By the same Reason that some are made Apprentices and some Journey-men and some Free-men and some break c. This their Answer is in their Book against us called A Gag for the Quakers And thus the Priests have shewed what Trades-men they are Also Sixty one Priests in and about the City of London in their Seasonable Exhortation as they call it directed to their Congregations They say in the Third Particular That other Causes and Symptomes of God's Wrath hanging over their heads is The frequent disappointment from time to time of all hopes of coming to any settlement in Government in the Nation occasioned by strange Confusions which they say is a clear Evidence that God hath in displeasure darkened their eyes and hid Counsel from them c. From which it follows 1. That the Priests depend not upon the Lord for support and maintenance in their Trade of Preaching but upon the Magistrates 2. And when they think the Magistrates are at any time like to fail them then their hearts begin to fail them and fear surprizes them as when they called Protectors their Parliaments were overturned after which time the Priests made this sad Complaint 3. The Wrath of God hanging over the Priests and God having in displeasure darkned their eyes and hid Counsel from them we may not go to follow them nor seek Counsel at them from whom it is hid But some will object and say We know that the National Ministers are corrupt enough in their Practices and that they are proud and covetous but we must do as they say and not as they do What have you against their Doctrine Answ. Their corrupt and evil practices give occasion enough for them to be denyed and turned away from as the Apostle commanded to turn away from such as have a form of Godliness but deny the power 2 Tim. 3.5 and the Lord hath called to come out from among such and be ye separate and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you saith the Lord But the Priests of the Nation do not only deny the Power of Godliness in their Practices but also the true form of Godliness in their Doctrines and Principles as they are in errors about the principal things that partain to Salvation as is hereafter shewed concerning the Principles of the Priests and Professors both of the Presbyterians Independents and others of the same root who have long been in fashion and esteem in the Nation in many of whose Principles the Episcopal men who for a time have been lesse in fashion are one with them The Priests and Professors Doctrines and Principles are false about the principal things that pertain to Life and Salvation I. Concerning the Light THe Priests and Professors who affirm That All men have not a Spiritual or saving Light of Christ in them and that every man hath not such a Light given him from Christ but that the Light in every man is a natural Light c. This their Principle is contrary to the Scriptures of Truth and to Christ and his Apostles doctrine for as God is no respector of persons who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not Jam. 1.5 So he hath given Christ a LIGHT into the World that whosoever believeth in him might not perish but have eternal Life without exception Joh. 1.4 9. chap. 3.16 12.46 Tit. 2.11 Rom. 5.18 And the LIFE of Christ is the LIGHT of men who enlighteneth every man that cometh into the World without respect of Persons whose LIFE or LIGHT is not natural but spiritual the spirit is Life the least measure of which Light is pure and unchangable convincing the Creature of Sin and leading man from Sin where it 's owned in the Love of it and therefore as the LIGHT in every man is spiritual and pure and the least measure of it being the same in kind with the greatest it is saving to them that believe in the Light and condemning to them that wilfully reject and hate it Joh. 3.19 II. Their Confusion about the Light AGain greatly have we seen the Priests and Professors confounded about the LIGHT of CHRIST in every man some of them saying that the Light the wicked have is but a natural or created Light and some of the Priests say it is a blurred Light a dark Light a Light of natural reason c. others saying that the Light that is in every man is both natural and Spiritual when as the LIGHT of Christ in every man that convinceth of Sin and reproves men for Iniquity is Spiritual and unchangeable being of and from CHRIST and leads to Him who is the same yesterday to day and for