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A54129	A defence of a paper, entituled, Gospel-truths against the exceptions of the Bishop of Cork's testimony by W. Penn	Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Penn, William, 1644-1718. Gospel-truths. aut; Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713. Testimony of the Bishop of Cork. aut	1698 (1698)	Wing P1274; ESTC R218266	58,772	142

A DEFENCE Of a PAPER Entituled GOSPEL-TRVTHS Against the EXCEPTIONS OF THE BISHOP of CORK'S Testimony By W. Penn. The Second Edition Printed in the Year 1698. THE PREFACE Reader IT was the Wise Counsel of an Ancient and Great Prelate of the Kingdom of Ireland at a late Visit I made him there to discourage Controversie and endeavour to abate Strife among Christians For said he Heaven is a Quiet Place there are no Quarrels there and Religion is a Holy and Peaceable Thing and Excites to Piety and Charity and not to Genealogies Strife and Debates But the Bishop of Cork seems to be of another Mind that could not pass by so Inoffensive a Paper as that Stiled Gospel-Truths given him by me in a Private Way at a Friendly Visit upon his own Desire without his Publick Animadversions and those Exprest not with so much Justice and Charity as might have been expected from him to his Dissenting Neighbours I am I confess very sorry my Christian Visits to the Bishop have met with no Better Returns than Controversie But because that 's his and not my fault it shall be my Satisfaction I did indeed Perceiving him Conversant in our Writings and his Character to be Moderation casually Present him with one of those Papers but as the Nature of it is Far from Provocation so my design in it was purely to Improve his Temper and not to Excite his Contradiction Nor was it Writ for an Exact and Compleat Account of our Belief but Occasionally to prevent the Prejudices that the Attempts of a Course and Scurrilous Pen at Dublin just before might provoke in some against us as to the Points touched upon in the Gospel-Truths And though we have been so Unhappy as to be therein Mistaken by the Bishop yet it 's some Comfort to Us that our Christian Declaration hath had quite another Reception with the Generality of those to whose Hands it has come And I heartily wish That hath not been the most prevailing Motive to his Undertaking However since he has been pleased to fault it both with Shortness and Error which we thought Healing at least Inoffensive I esteem my self Answerable for it and shall with God's Assistance Defend it against the Force of his Exceptions and I hope with Clearness and Temper For though I may be plain as he may expect I desire to be neither Rude nor Bitter I ask Reader but the Common Justice due to all Authors especially in Controverted Points of Religion to wit Attention and Impartiality and then judge whether our Pacifick Paper deserved so Sharp a Censure and the Manner of its being given him so Publick a Return Though I hope the Consequence will be Good To Almighty God I leave the Success and am in all Christian Obligation Thy Assured Friend W. Penn. Bristol the 23d of the 7th Month 1698. GOSPEL-TRUTHS Held and briefly Declared by the People called QUAKERS for Satisfaction of Moderate Enquirers SOBER READER IF thou hadst rather we should be in the Right than in the Wrong and if thou thinkest it but a Reasonable Thing that we should be Heard before we are Condemned and that our Belief ought to be taken from our own Mouths and not at theirs that have prejudged our Cause then we intreat thee to Read and Weigh the following Brief Account of those Things that are chiefly Received and Professed among us the People called Quakers according to the Testimony of the Scriptures of Truth and the Illumination of the Holy Ghost which are the Double and Agreeing Record of True Religion Published to Inform the Moderate Enquirer and Reclaim the Prejudic'd to a better Temper which GOD grant to his Glory and their Peace I. It is our Belief that GOD Is and that He is a Rewarder of all them that fear Him with Eternal Rewards of Happiness and that those that fear him not shall be turned into Hell Heb. 11. 6. Rev. 22. 12. Rom. 2. 5 6 7 8. Psal 9. 17. II. That there are Three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and these Three are really One 1. John 5. 7. III. That the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among Men and was and is the only Begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth His Beloved Son in whom he is well pleased and whom we are to hear in all things who tasted Death for every Man and Dyed for Sin that we might Die to Sin and by his Power and Spirit be raised up to Newness of Life here and to Glory hereafter John 1. 14. Matth. 3. 17. Heb. 2. 9. IV. That as we are only Justified from the Guilt of Sin by Christ the Propitiation and not by Works of Righteousness that we have done so there is an absolute Necessity that we receive and obey to unfeigned Repentance and Amendment of Life the holy Light and Spirit of Jesus Christ in order to obtain that Remission and Justification from Sin Since no Man can be Justified by Christ who walks not after the Spirit but after the Flesh for whom he Sanctifies them ●e also Justifies And if we walk in the Light as he is Light his precious Blood ●leanseth us from all Sin as well from the Pollution as Guilt of Sin Rom. 3. 22. to 26. Chap. 8. 1 2 3 4. 1 John 5. 7. V. That Christ is die Great Light of the World that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World and is full of Grace and Truth and giveth to all Light for Light and Grace for Grace and by his Light and Grace he Inwardly Appears to Man and teaches such as will be taught by him That Denying Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts they should live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World John 8. 12. Chap. 1. 9 ●14 Tit. 2. 11 12. VI. That this Principle of Light and Grace which is GOD's Gift through Christ to Man is that which shews us our Sins Reproves us for them and would Lead all all out of them that obey it to serve GOD in Fear and Love all their Days And they that turn not at the Reproofs thereof and will not Repent and Live and Walk according to it shall die in their Sins and where Christ is gone they shall never come who is Undefiled and separated from Sinners Ephes 5. 13. John 16. 7. Prov. 1. 20. to 24. John 8. 24. VII This is that Principle by which GOD prepares the Heart to worship him aright and all the Duties of Religion as Praying Praising and Preaching ought to be performed through the sanctifying Power and Assistance of It other Worship being but Formal and Will-Worship with which we cannot in Conscience joyn nor can we maintain or uphold It. Rom. 8. 26. 1 Pet. 4. 10 11. VIII Worship in this Gospel-Day is Inward and Spiritual For GOD is a Spirit as Christ teacheth and he will Now be worshiped in Spirit and Truth being most suitable to his Divine Nature wherefore we wait in our Assemblies to feel GOD's

yet he does not thereby bid them do it often if at ail 5ly And whereas the Bishop would make it a fresh Revelation to the Apostle when he says for I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you I must dissent from him I cannot apprehend that means any more than this that what account he had received of Christ's Eating the Supper with his Disciples the Night he was Betrayed the same also he had Delivered unto them For what need could there be of an Immediate Revelation for so late a Fact so well Witnessed by the Disciples But if my Reader will peruse that Part of the Chapter which relates to the Supper he will find the Stress lies upon Remembring of the Lord which is indeed our Daily Indispensible Duty and he that lives without it may be said to live without God in the World of which those Corinthians at that time seemed to Insensible and as such are severely reproved by the Apostle being Irreverent Greedy and Drunken hardly fit for the Sign and less able to discern the Thing Signified 6ly Nor does the Apostle seem to recommend this practice but rather reprehend their Abuse of it and if my Reader will look back to the foregoing Chapter from the beginning to die 18 Verse he may find a more Spiritual Supper and Mystical Bread and Cup hinted at by the Apostle as well as Mat. 26. 29. Rev. 3. 20. by our Lord Jesus Christ himself Which is indeed very copiously exprest by Luke in the Parable of the Supper chap. 14. from the 16. to die 24. Verse where One that was at Meat with Christ speaking of the Blessedness of eating of Bread in the Kingdom of God Christ takes occasion to shew forth the Gospel Supper by a Parable viz. A Certain Man made a Great Supper and bid many but they refused upon divers pretences and came not He sent out a second and third time to invite an inferiour sort of Guests and they came to the Supper that is they received the Gospel which is the Power of God to Salvation and the evidence as Well as means of It Which Christ in the 27th verse further expresses thus viz. and whosoever doth not bear my Cross and follow me cannot be my Disciple Now the Cross of Christ the same Apostle also says is the Power of God 1 Cor. 1. 18. all which referrs to an Inward and Spiritual Work and Supper and that they who receive Christ in Spirit Sup with him in Spirit being the partakers of his Spiritual Supper which Christ promises and prepares for all those that open at his knocks the Door of their Hearts unto him Rev. 3. 7ly But besides what I have said both from Scripture and the Nature of the thing in Proof of Christ's Spiritual Supper and Defense of our disuse of the visible Sign the Bishop himself does the same thing in relation to another Ordinance For our Lord Jesus Christ did as solemnly Command his Disciples to wash one anothers Feet as to eat the Supper The Passage is large and edifying and I must recommend it to my Reader to peruse in his Bible John 13. But that part of it which more strictly concerns this point between the Bishop and me I shall repeat here verse 12 13 14 15. So after he had washed their Feet and taken his Garments and was set down again He said unto them Know ye what I have done to you Ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am If I then your Lord and Master have washed your Feet ye also ought to wash one anothers Feet For I have given you an Example that ye should do as I have done to you Thus Christ Commanded his Disciples not only by his Authority but Example Now does the Bishop and his Friends follow Christ's example and obey this Precept He and they know they do not What must I Infer from thence that the Bishop is no Christian I suppose he would take it very ill from me Tho' he has treated me and my Friends after that sort But I will shew him a better example and suppose he thinks that if Christian Ministers and People walk Humbly towards God and one with another they fulfil this Commandment tho' they disuse the Sign by which the Lord Jesus exprest and recommended Humility to his Followers Now that which excuses the Bishop in reference to this Ordinance of Washing of Feet will also excuse our disuse of the Supper viz. Our eating of the Spiritual Bread and Wine of the Kingdom the Thing Signified by the Outward Supper But it is an Error incident to srail Man to prefer the Practice of those things that have a Shew of Religion and have least of Uneasiness and of the Nature of the Cross of Christ in their Performance Just thus it is easier to receive the Supper than to be Humble if not easier than to wash Feet For one is but a Memorial of Christ but the other perhaps is a Reproach of present Practice and to be sure a Command to Mortification and Self-denial the hardest Lesson in Religion And who knows but for the Reason it has been dropt so long since it must be very uneasie for People to continue a Custom to which their Daily Practice is so visible a Contradiction Though I hear the Roman Bishop ●●mocks the Text Once a Year 8ly But in Relation to the Supper we farther say the Practice is varied Then they Sat ●ow one sort Stands another Walks a third Kneels a fourth Lies down upon the Ground as in the East Countries The Romans have one Opinion the Greeks another and the Lutherans and Calvinists Divide to great Bitterness in their Sentiments about It. 9ly Again in those Days they were Disciples such as followed Christ now all are admitted that profess Christianity tho' they do not follow him or forsake any thing for his Name sake or keep any of his Holy Precepts Matth. 5 6 7 Chapters 10ly Nor is this all we have to say to Justifie our Disuse of this Practice It is too much Look'd at and Relied upon by the People And indeed is become a kind of Protestant Extream Unction for if the Generality of them can but have it administred just before they Die they are too apt to presume upon it for an acceptance in the other World And indeed it is very frequent if not natural for many Men to excuse their Disobedience by Sacrifice and where Ceremonies or Shadowy Services are continued People rest upon their observance of them and Indulge themselves in the Neglect of the Doctrine of the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ I need not look far nor yet the Bishop for a proof of what I say we can hardly miss which way soever we throw out Eyes the more is the pity And as this is no small Abuse of Primitive Practice so no small Argument for our disuse of it For when the Brazen Serpent was over-valued by the Jews God