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A54161	A key opening a way to every common understanding, how to discern the difference betwixt the religion professed by the people called Quakers and the perversions, misrepresentations and calumnies of their several adversaries : published in great good will to all, but more especially for their sakes that are actually under prejudice from vulgar abuses.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1693 (1693)	Wing P1312A; ESTC R28422	12,318	37

present evil World as Jo. 3. 20 21. Tit. 2. 11 12. yet it no ways follows that Men must obey and learn so to do whether they will or not God tenders Saving Light or Grace to all Gen. 6. 3. Ezek. 18. 21 22 23 24. Mic. 6. 8. 1 Tim. 2. 4. 2 Pet. 3. 9. he strives and pleads with all but if they will not hearken to his Spirit Grace or Light he is clear of their Blood His Light is saving that lighteth them but it saveth them not if they rebel against it Job 17. 16. 21. 17. 24. 13. In short tho Men are lighted or visited with a saving Light or Grace yet the Quakers never concluded nor is it rightly concludable from their Testimony that such Men must necessarily and absolutely be saved whether they obey or rebel Pervers 4. By the Quakers Light or Spirit they may be moved to Murder Adultery Treason Theft or any such like Wickedness because they say that such as are have the Light within them Princ. This never was their Doctrine nor is it consequent of it though they hold all have Light they never said all obeyed it or that evil Men were led by it much less could the Light be chargable with the Sins of those that refused to be led by it for herein they know the Spirit of God and the Motions of it from the Spirit of this World and its Fruits That the Spirit of God condemns all Ungodliness and moves and inclines to purity mercy righteousness which are of God as Jo. 16. 7 8 13. ch 3. 20 21. Gal. 5. 16 26. They deny and abominate that ranting Spirit that would charge the Spirit of God with their unholy Liberty God's Spirit makes free from Sin and not to sin Neither do they distinguish as such loose People wickedly do between the Act and the Evil of it Wherefore they say that as the Tree is known and denominated from the Fruit so Spirits by their Motions and Inclinations And the Spirit of God never did incline to evil and for that cause they renounce that construction of such Ranters That evil is no evil when they pretend to be led to it by Gods Spirit for that never was nor can be the way and method of his Spirit which is pure and holy for ever And Man's Sin and Destruction are of himself but his Help is in God alone through Christ Pervers 5. The Quakers must be all infallible and perfect if they have such an infallible Light Princ. This is also a great Abuse of their true meaning They say the Principle is pure perfect unerrable in it self or else it were unfit to lead Men to Heaven but they never did assert themselves such meerly because it was in them by no means But that all who are led by it are so far perfect and so far infallibly in the right way and no jot further Who can lay down a more Independent Doctrin upon Self and a more depending one upon the Grace or Gift of God Let them not be Mistaken nor suffer for such misapprehensions nor be made to hold what they don't to disrepute them with sober People or support the mistaken Charges of their Enemies Yet to shew that a State of Perfection is attainable they urge among others these Scriptures Gen. 17. 1. Deut. 18. 13. 2 Sam. 23. 33. Job 1. 1 8. ch 2. 3. and 8. 20. Psal 18. 32. and 119. 1. Prov. 2. 21. Mar. 5. 48. Luke 6. 40. 1 Cor. 2. 6. 2 Cor. 13. 9 11. Eph. 4. 13. 1 Thess 3. 10. 1 Tim. 3. 17. Jam. 1. 4. 1 Pet. 5. 10. Heb. 6. 1. 1 J. 4. 13. Pervers 6. The Quakers deny the Scriptures for they deny them to be the Word of God Princ. They own the Scriptures as they own themselves viz. A Declaration of those things most truly believed given forth in all Ages by the Inspiration of the Holy Spirit consequently that they are profitable for Reading for Exhortation for Reproof in Righteousness that the Man of God may be perfectly furnished They are the Form of Sound Words They profess to believe them read them and say it is the Work they have to do in this World and the earnest Desire of their Souls to Almighty God that they may witness the fulfilling of them that so God's Will may be done in Earth as it is in Heaven But to call them the Word of God which they never called themselves but which they peculiarly denominate and call Christ by as Jo. 1. 4 14. Rev. 19. 13. In reverence to Christ and in no slight to them which they believe to be of divine Authority and embrace as the best of Books and allow to be as much the Word of God as a Book can be They do as in Duty and Reason bound attribute that Title to Christ only And yet as the Word of God signifies the Command of God referring to the thing commanded it may be called the Word of the Lord or Word of God as on particular occasions the Prophets had the Word of the Lord to Persons and Places that is to say that which was commanded them of the Lord. So Christ uses it Mar. 7. 13. when he tells the Pharisees That they had made the Word or Command of God of none effect by their Traditions But because People are so apt to think if they have the Scriptures they have all for that they are the Word of God and so look no farther therefore this people have felt themselves constrained by God's Spirit to point them to the great Word of Words Christ Jesus in whom is Life and that Life the Light of Men that they might feel something nearer to them than the Scriptures even the Word in the Heart Christ within them the Hope of their Glory Deut. 22. 12. Rom. 10. 6 7 8. who is the Author and Expounder of Holy Scripture and without whose Light Spirit or Grace they are not profitably read by those that read them Pervers 7. They deny them to be any Means whereby to resist Temptation Princ. This is a very uncharitable aspersion True it is that they deny the Scriptures meerly or of themselves to be sufficient to resist Temptation for then all that have them and read them would be preserved by them against Temptations But that they should deny them to be any Means or Instrument whereby to do it when they allow their own Writings may be such is either great Ignorance or Malice in their Adversaries God has made use of the Scriptures and doth and will make use of them for Reproof Comfort and Edification through the Spirit Thus they say they have felt them and so they are made to them through the good Spirit of God coming in upon their Spirits in the reading of them Pervers 8. The Quakers assert the Spirit of God to be the immediate Teacher and that there is no other Means now to be used Princ. They never spake such Language But herein they perceive the great

A KEY Opening a way to every Common Understanding How to discern the Difference betwixt the Religion professed by the People called QUAKERS and the Perversions Misrepresentations and Calumnies of their several Adversaries Published in great good Will to all but more especially for their sakes That are actually under Prejudice from vulgar Abuses LONDON Printed for Thomas Northcott in George-yard in Lombard-street 1693. CONTENTS 1. OF the Light within what it is and the Vertue and Benefit of it 2. Of the Scriptures and their Truth and Service 3. Of the Spirit of God and its Office with respect to Man 4. Of the Holy Three or Scripture-Trinity 5. Of the Divinity of Christ 6. Of the Manhood of Christ 7. Of Christ Jesus and his performances for Man's Salvation 8. Of Good Works that they are necessary and rewardable but not Meritorious 9. Of Water-Baptism and the Supper 10. Of the Resurrection of the Dead and Eternal Recompence 11. Of Civil Honour and Respect 12. Of Civil Government Reader IT is very unfair and indiscreet in any to oppose and calumniate what they do not understand It has been our unhappiness far more than all that our Adversaries have been able to say against us that hitherto we remain unknown by those who yet stick not to condemn us We must confess that our Principles as disguised and misrepresented in the World may well enough have given Offence to Those That have not thought it worth their while to take the Pains of enquiring further Nor indeed can we take it ill that People should be shy to entertain them under those frightful Vizards some have put upon them and yet they must be inexcusable that will take our Belief at our Enemies Hands rather than our own who best know what we believe But it will be the business of this little Key to explain the Difficulty and shew the Difference between our Principles and the Vulgar Mistakes and thereby open a way into so clear and plain an Understanding of the Quakers Principles from their Enemies Perversions as we hope with God's Blessing all impartial Enquirers will be satisfied of our Holy and Christian Profession Which we earnestly desire for their Good Knowing that as we have been called of God to be a People to him through his Grace none may stumble or be offended at the Truth we testifie of but seeing the Excellency of it may imbrace it and walk in it the only best way to end Controversy and obtain the great and true End of Religion the Salvation of the Soul Perversion I. THe Quakers hold that the Natural Light in the Conscience of every Man in the World is sufficient to save all that follow it and so overthrow Salvation by Christ. Principle This is a great Mistake for their Belief and Assertion is That Christ who is the Word that was with God and was God and is so for ever hath enlightned every Man that cometh into the World with his own Light as he is that True Light or such a Light as there is no other to be compared to him Which is the meaning of the Emphasis True in the Text and that such as follow the Reproofs Convictions and Leadings of that Light with which he enlightens the Understandings and Consciences of Men shall not walk in Darkness that is in Evil and Ignorance of God but shall have the Light of Life which Life is a living Condition towards God and a state of acceptance and Salvation and for which end Christ was given of God See Isa 49. 6. Jo. 1. 4 9. 3. 21. 5. 40. 8. 12. 10. 10. So that they assert the Light of Christ sufficient and not a Natural Light otherwise than as all Men born into the world have a measure of Christ's Light and so it may be said to be natural to all Men. For this Light is something else than the bare Understanding Man hath as a rational Creature For as such Man cannot be a Light to himself But has only a capacity of seeing by means of the Light that Christ the Word enlighteneth him withal For we can no more be a mental or Intellectual Light to our selves than we are an External and Corporeal Light to our selves But as the Sun in the Firmament is the Light of our Bodies so the Light of the divine Word is the Sun of our Souls the glorious Luminary of the intellectual World and they that walk in it and by it will come to Blessedness Pervert 2. The Quakers hold the Light within them is God Christ and the Holy Spirit so that every Quaker has whole God Christ and Spirit in him Which is gross Blasphemy Princ. This is also a Mistake of their Belief They never said that every Illumimination in the Hearts of Men was whole God Christ or the Spirit whereby to be guilty of that gross and blasphemous Absurdity they would fasten on them But that God who is Light or the Word Christ who is Light the Quickning Spirit and God over all blessed for ever 1 Cor. 15. 45 47. hath enlightned Mankind with a Measure of Saving Light So that the Illumination is from God or Christ the Word but not therefore whole God or Christ in every Man no more than the whole Sun or Air is in every House or Chamber There are no such harsh and unscriptural Words in their Writings It is only a frightful Perversion of some of their Enemies to bring a Scandal upon their Holy Faith Yet in a Sense the Scriptures say it and that is their Sense in which they say the same thing He that is with you shall be in you I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you I in them and they in me Christ in us the hope of Glory Unless Christ be in you ye are Reprobates Of whom I travel in Birth again until Christ be formed in you Jo. 14. 3 17. 18. 20. Col. 1. 26 27. 2 Cor. 13. 5. Gal. 4. 19. Now if they who denied his coming in the Flesh though high professing Jews were Antichrists because Enemies to that Appearance and Dispensation of God to Men what must they be reputed who as stiffly disown his nearer and more spiritual coming formation and dominion in the Soul Which is to be sure the higher and nobler Knowledg of Christ yea the Mystery hid from Ages and now revealed to God's People the Riches of the Glory of the Mystery which God reserved to be made known to the Gentiles Col. 1. 27. Certainly though they are called Christians they must be no whit less Antichrists than those obstinate Jews of old Pervert 3. By the Quakers Doctrine every Man must be saved for every Man they say is savingly enlightned Prin. Not so For though the Light or Grace of God hath and doth more or less appear to all Men and that it brings Salvation to as many as will be taught by it to deny Ungodliness and worldly Lusts and to live soberly and righteously and godlikely in this